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Steve Winwood

Hits of the Week

'SINGLESJAMES TAYLOR AND J.D. SOUTHER, "HER

TOWN TOO" (prod. by Ashenlwriters: Taylor-Sou°her-Wachtell(Country Road Leadsheetland,

131'.11/Ice Age, ASCA") (4:35). -he:wo voices-with all their inti-mate poignancy - complementeach other perfectly. A top 10cinch. Col 1 --60514.

STEELY DAN, "TIME OUT OF MIND" (prod.by Katz) (writers: Becker-Fager)(Zeon/Freejunket, ASCAP) (4 1 0).Like a box of mixed chocolates,this follow-up to the top 10 "HeyNineteen" offers an aural arrayof rich keybcard"guitar figures-all by a star-studded cast. MCA51082.

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ANDY GIBB, "ME (WITHOUT YOU)" (prod.by Gibb - Richardson - Galuten):writer: Gibb) 1St gwood / Uni-chappell, BMI) (3:300. With a tear-drop in his voice and cathedral,keyboards rising throughout,Gibb sings of ieartache. Fromhis "Greatest Hits" LP, it's a pop -A/C grabber. RSO 1056.

TIERRA "MEMORIES"' (prod. by Rudy &Steve Sales) (writer: R. Sales)(Marvin Gardens, ASCAP) (2:59).

Dazzling pe-cuss on sets thes=age for Steve Sa as' cool vocallead on this successor to themulti -ethic septet s "Together"hit. A stylistic fusion for broadappeal. Boardwalk 8-70073

SLEEPERS.38 SPECIAL, "HOLD ON LOOSELY" (prod

by Mills) (writers: Batrtes-Carlisi-Peterik) (Rocknocker/W.B.TEasy.Action, ASCAP) (3:5z). Rip -roe --in' guitars s ash away at tae dual -drum rhythm section while CanBarnes' convincing lead vocalhandles the bold hooK. AM.!2316.

IAN GOMM, "HERE IT COMES AGAIN(THAT FEELING)" (prod. by Rrshent) (writer: Gomm) (Albion'Koppelman-Bandier, BM) (3:06:Gomm's too 20 "Hold Oi" in '79signalled the arrival of a to antedtunesmith. Here's more infect -ous pop from his new 'What .

Blow" LP. Stiff/Epic 19-51006.

ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRAC-TIONS, ' WATCH YOUR STEP"(prod. by Lowe) (writer: Castello)(Plangent Visions, ASCAP) (259).El's words of warning have tram -formed irto cauticn this :himaround, with the sarre affectingurgency. Steve Nieve's keyboardsmake magic. Col 11-60519_

SHALAMAR, "MAKE THAT MOVE" (prod.by Sylvers, Ill) (writers: Spencer -Shelby -Sir ith) (SpectrJm VII /Mykinda. ASCAP) (3:45) JodyWatley's heavenly flights Di tiehook anc exciting trades w th.Howard Hewitt are soo-lightedhere.. Darceable anc right or sev-eral formats. Solar 12192 (RCA).

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ALBUMSJAMES TAYLOR, "DAp LOVES HISWORK." While the single ''Her TownToo" attracts attention, this entireLP is full of sensitive, sertimentaland rontant c gems Ike 'Only ForMe," "Loncon Town' and "SugarTrade." And no cover versions! Con-grats to J.T. and producer PeterAsher. ;:,'olt.rrbia TC 37009 (8.98).

SMOKEY ROBINSON, "BEING WITHYOU." As the title single bulletsBOS and pop this LP reveals furtherdimens ons o- Smokey's alliancewith producer George Tobin (KimCarnest. H s creamy -smooth vocalsfind the right consistency on songslike "Ycu Are Foreier." Tamla T8-375 M1 (Motown) (8.96).

ERIC CLAPTON. "ANOTHERTICKET." C apton has achieved hisgreatest success yet blending bluesand gcspe influences into an acces-sible pop strle. Here he tac<les twoblues starderds and rocks out withhis cwn " Can't Stand It- (thesin-gle: and "Catch Me If "cu Can.-RSO RX-1-3095 (PolyGram) (8.98).

THE SLEY BROTHERS, 'GRANDSLAM " On their way to being de-clared a national music nstitutionthe Isleys a -e still rocking tans intoa dancing fervor with cuts like"Part, Night anc soothing themwith seduct ve ballads I ke "TonightIs tie NIgh-.. T -Neck FZ 3708C(CBS) (8.98 .

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Record WorldCBS, PolyGram

Raising List PricesBy DAVID McGEE

NEW YORK-CBS Records andPolyGram Inc. have announcedsuggested list price changes, ef-fective March 30 and April 1 re-spectively. In addition, CBS is

modifying its exchange policy andincreasing its pick, pack and shipfees.

At press time, reliable sourcesreported that PolyGram was pre-paring to introduce a $5.98 serieson all its distributed labels by theend of March.

Both companies have raised to$8.98 suggested list prices onsingle record $7.98 releases. Alltwo -disc pop/rock, country, R&Band jazz releases from CBS willhenceforth carry a suggested listprice of $11.98, up from the pre-vious list of $9.98; exceptions to

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Jack Craigo CitesCoordination as KeyTo RCA Hot Streak

By PETER KEEPNEWSand GREG BRODSKY

NEW YORK-RCA and its asso-ciated labels currently have morebulleting songs in the top 20 ofRecord World's Singles Chart thanany other record company. JackCraigo, who recently took chargeof the company's U.S. and Canadaoperations, credits the label's re-surgence to the "terrific coordi-nation" and "high intensity ofcooperation" among the differentareas of the company.

"We've set up special A&R andmarketing centers (for black,


Internal Goody AuditTo Be Used at Trial

By JEFFREY PEISCH

NEW YORK-The start of theSam Goody Inc. trial, set for Mon-day (2), was prefaced last week(26) with an attempt by lawyersfor the retail chain to prevent U.S.prosecutor John Jacobs from usinginformation found in an auditdone of the Goody chain andPickwick International by theAmerican Can Company, theparent company of Goody Inc.and Pickwick.

The audit was conducted dur-ing the last several months of1979 and included interviewswith top executives at Goody Inc.and Pickwick, including GeorgeLevy and Samuel Stolon, the pres-ident and vice president of theGoody chain, who have beenaccused of trafficking in coun-terfeit recordings. The indictmentcovers a period ending in Feb -


MARCH 7, 1981

Christopher Cross Scores Upset

By Winning Four Grammy AwardsBy PETER KEEPNEWS

NEW YORK-Christopher Crosscapped his meteoric rise from ob-scurity to superstardom by win-ning four Grammy Awards duringthe nationally televised presenta-tion held Wednesday (25) at Ra-dio City Music Hall.

The Texas -born singer -song-writer, whose self -titled debut al-bum on Warner Bros. yieldedthree hit singles and achievedplatinum status, was named BestNew Artist, which surprised fewobservers. But his victories in thecategories Album of the Year,Record of the Year (for his num-ber -one hit "Sailing") and Songof the Year (also for "Sailing")must be considered upsets. In allthree categories, he had facedformidable competition.

The albums that lost to "Chris-topher Cross" were Bi!ly Joel's

RCA Videodiscs and Discplayer

Get a Gala Sendoff in New YorkBy SOPH A MIDAS

NEW YORK - RCA last week and several hundred dealersattend a reception at the RCABuilding's Rainbow Room suitesand to witness the satellite pres-entation of the SelectaVision disc -player. According to RCA spokes-men, this was "the largest closed-circuit meeting ever held."

Participating in the satellite te-levision program were Edgar H.Griffiths, RCA chairman; Roy H.Pollack and Herbert S. Schlosser,RCA executive vice presidents;


20th's Portnoy,:

Unveiled its catalogue of 100videodiscs and introduced its Se-lectaVision CED discplayer at a

presentation which originatedfrom New York and was transmit-ted via satellite to 14,000 elec-tronics dealers and salesmen in75 cities throughout the country.

Calling the presentation of theirvideodisc product "an historicevent" and "the biggest thing tohit the electronics industry sincethe advent of television," RCAinvited 200 members of the press

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"Glass Houses" (Columbia), Bar-bra Streisand's "Guilty" (Colum-bia), Frank Sinatra's "Trilogy:Past, Present & Future" (Reprise)and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" (Co-lumbia). In the Record of theYear category, "Sailing" trium-phed over Bette Midler's "TheRose" (Atlantic), Kenny Rogers'"Lady" (Liberty), Sinatra's "Themefrom 'New York, New York,'"and Streisand's "Woman in Love."Those same songs, plus the Mi-chael Gore -Dean Pitchford com-position "Fame" (recorded byIrene Cara on RSO), had beenCross' competition in the Songof the Year category.

Cross' producer and arrangerMichael Omartian also won anaward for Best Arrangement Ac-companying a Vocalist for "Sail -


Royalty BillReintroduced in House

By BILL HOLLAND WASHINGTON - The Per-formance Rights Royalty Bill,shelved by Congress last sessionbecause of teetering supportand the press of other business,has been reintroduced in theHouse.

The bill, now termed H.R.1805, identical to last year'sH.R. 997, would provide a

royalty for the commercial useand public performance of soundrecordings. It would requiremusic clubs, discos, radio and


Label Is Well on Its Way to SuccessBy SAMUEL GRAHAM

LOS ANGELES-With rare ex-ceptions, the years 1978 and 1979were not the healthiest for do-mestic record labels; and while

companies have describedas a year of significant re -

are those whose ill -

most1980covery, therenesses were more severe thanothers'. 20th Century -Fox Rec-ords, according to label presidentNeil Portnow, falls into that cate-gory, but having largely revampedits operation - including cuttingperhaps 50 percent of the actsthat were on its roster three years

ago and re -defining its distribu-tion arrangement with RCA-thelabel has made encouraging prog-ress towards remedying a situ-ation that Portnow said reachedits nadir in 1978.

In a recent interview, Portnow(who came to 20th as a seniorvice president in April 1979and was named president of thelabel in January of last year) spokecandidly about the problems withwhich he had to deal when hejoined the label, as well as the


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Contents Page 10. Working out of a $2 millionstudio in Bearsville, Todd Rundgren hasmade his commitment to video productionquite clear. But Rundgren feels the musicindustry may be misleading itself with boldforecasts for the future of the videodisc.This week he offers some frank opinionson the new medium in an RW Dialogue.

Page 20. They are well-known and well -respected by their peers, but to the generalpublic they are only the voices singing thevirtues of any number of products on tele-vision and radio. This week RW takes alook at the art of being a session singerand talks to some of the more prominentvocalists in the field.

departmentsA/C Chart

Album AirplayReport

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Album Chart Page 32

Album Picks Page 14

Black OrientedMusic Pages 33-34Picks of the Week Page 33Black Oriented

Singles Chart Page 34Black Oriented

Album Chart Page 33Black Music Report Page 33

Classical Page 39

Coast Page 19

CountryCountry Album

ChartCountry Album PicksCountry Hot LineCountry Picks of the

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Disco

Disco FileDisco File Top 40

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InternationalCanadaEnglandGermanyJapan

Jazz LP Chart

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Latin AmericanAlbum PicksHit ParadeNuestro RinconRadio Action

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Nashville Report Page 47

New York, N.Y. Page 17

Radio World Page 28

Retail Report Page 31

Singles Chart Page 25

Singles Picks Page 12

Video World

PolyGram West Coast MeetingPage 21

Bob Sherwood, executive vice president and general manager, PolyGram Records (thirdfrom left), makes the opening remarks at the company's Los Angeles planning meet-ings. Also pictured are, from left: Emiel Petrone, PolyGram Distribution; Lou Simon,senior vice president, marketing, PolyGram Records, Inc.; John Stainze, director ofwest coast A&R, PolyGram Records; Russ Regan, vice president, west coast generalmanager, PolyGram Records; Randy Roberts, national singles sales manager, PolyGramRecords, Inc.; and Don Colberg, vice president, promotion, PolyGram Records, Inc. Themeetings were held on Feb. 9 and 10 and chaired by Mick Brown, PolyGram's westcoast marketing VP.

MCA, Inc. Revenues

Up Slightly in 1980II LOS ANGELES-Lew Wasser-man, chairman of the board ofMCA, Inc., has announced thatrevenues for the fiscal year end-ing December 31, 1980 were upslightly from 1979, while incomebefore extraordinary income de-creased during the same timeperiod.

Revenues increased from $1,-266,140,000 in 1979 to $1,297,-104,000. Income before extra-ordinary income was $125,372,-000 or $5.31 per share comparedto $138,988,000 or $5.95 per sharefor 1979. Net income for the year1980 of $137,647,000 or $5.83 pershare includes extraordinary in-come of $12,275,000 or $.52 pershare as compared to net incomeof $178,688,000 or $7.65 pershare including extraordinary in-come of $39,700,000 or $1.70 pershare for 1979.

Other RevenueAccording to Wasserman, his-

torically high revenues of theMCA Records Group and im-proved results of the UniversalStudios Tour, other recreationservices and the Book PublishingDivision partially offset the re-duced profitability of the actorsstrike -plagued Filmed Entertain-ment Division, the Retail andMail Order Division and Colum-bia Savings and Loan Associationof Colorado.

Fourth quarter reports hadrevenues at $337,480,000 and netincome was $26,908,000 or $1.13per share, compared to 1979fourth quarter revenues of $387,-747,000 and net income of $44,-431,000 or $1.90 per share.

Three New Speakers

For ITA SeminarII NEW YORK-Three new speak-ers have been added to the HomeVideo Sessions at the ITA "Audio/Video Update -1981" seminar atthe Diplomat Resort & CountryClub in Hollywood, Florida,March 15-18. With these addi-tions the program has been fi-nalized.

Because of the interest andcontroversy over rental of pre-recorded video programming,two speakers will address them-selves to the subject. Jim Jimirro,president of Walt Disney Tele-communications, has chosen thetopic "Taking the 'Versus' Outof Sales Vs. Rental," and JeremyRumfitt, president of Granada TVRental in the U.S., will speak on"Rental In a Sales Market."

The third added speaker is JohnMesserschmitt, vice president ofNorth American Philips Corp.,whose topic is "The Videodisc-Who Needs It?"

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A NEW ALBUMOF ALL NEW STUDIO RECORDINGS

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ERIC CLAPTON On Tour

March 2 Portland 25 New Orleans May 1 Indianapolis 20 Philadelphia3 Spokane 27 Memphis 2 Cincinnati 22 Washington, D.C.

5, 6, 7 Seattle 28 Carbondale 3 Detroit 23 Norfolk9 Billings 29 St. Louis 5 Ft. Wayne 24 Greensboro

10 Great Falls 31 Little Rock 7 East Lansing 26 Charlotte13 Madison April 1 Shreveport 8 Chicago 27 Columbia14 Duluth 3 Austin 9 Cleveland 29 Miami15 St. Paul 4 Houston 10 Pittsburgh 30 Jacksonville17 Ames 5 Dallas 12 New Haven 31 Tampa19 Wichita 7 Tempe 13 Binghampton June 2 Nashville20 Springfield 8 San Diego 15 Nassau, N.Y. 4 Jackson21 Kansas City 9 Long Beach 16 Providence 5 Mobile22 Lincoln 11 Oakland 17 Portland 6 Birmingham24 Baton Rouge 19 Rochester 7 Atlanta

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NEW YORK - CBS, Inc. presi-dent and chief executive officerThomas Wyman predicted a ninepercent growth rate for the rec-ord industry in 1981 in an addressbefore financial analysts lastThursday (26) at CBS headquar-ters. The optimistic outlook char-acterized his overview of the giantentertainment conglomerate's1980-81 operations, with a specialemphasis on development proj-ects-theatrical films, cable pro-gramming, home video, teletexand electronic publishing.

Referring to 1980 as a yearwhen "CBS Recording Groupmade a sharp resurgence in profitswhich outpaced the growth ofthe worldwide record market,"Wyman attributed that reboundto important releases like PinkFloyd's "The Wall," Billy Joel's"Glass Houses," Michael Jackson's"Off The Wall," Bruce Spring-steen's "The River," and "Guilty"by Barbra Streisand and BarryGibb. He also cited the introduc-tion of the $5.98 budget catalogline and a new exchange policythat limits returns as importantfactors in CBS's resurgence.

While admitting that CBS Inter-national experiencedsome major markets in the secondhalf of '80, Wyman was particu-larly enthusiastic about the salesgrowth in Latin America, whereoverall sales volume was up twopoints over '79 to 16 percent. Ex-pectations for continued growthin Latin America were under-scored by Wyman's outline ofplans to build a new pressingplant in Columbia "that helpsmeet the growing and excitingdemand for our records there."

Following his address, Wymanwas joined by Walter Yetnikoff,president, CBS/Records Group;John Purcell, executive vice presi-dent, CBS Inc.; John Suhler, presi-dent, CBS/Publishing Group; andThomas Kirwan, vice president,finance, CBS Inc., for a discussion

Geffen Taps Barbis LOS ANGELES-Ed Rosenblatt,president of Geffen Records, hasannounced the appointment ofJohn Barbis as director of promo-tion for the label.

Prior to his appointment, JohnBarbis and his brother Dinoheaded the Barbis Bros. Produc-tion and Management company.Barbis' extensive industry experi-ence includes four years as westcoast A&R and promotion direc-tor for London Records, two yearsas national promotion managerfor Chrysalis Records and one -and -a -half years as vice presidentof promotion for ABC Records.

Record Industry Will Grow in 1981,

Says CBS, Inc. President Thomas WymanBy JOSEPH IANELLO

session with the analysts. It wasthe development programs - es-pecially the home video field -that drew the most queries fromthe gathering. CBS is expected toabsorb development costs of be-tween $40 and $50 million forcable and home video projects inthe next two years.

A large amount of that invest-ment is being spent on the pro-duction of the RCA SelectaVis-ion discs. "Basically we expect in1981 to be acquiring SelectaVis-ion from RCA," Yetnikoff stated."In 1982 we expect to go into ourown production at a rough vol-ume of about a million and a halfdiscs. Beyond 1982 we would ex-pect the volume of productionstarting to increase at an exponen-tial level and by '83 our best guessis a production level of abovethree million discs annually."

When asked about the costs ofthe discs as compared to the ex-pense for manufacturing audiorecords Yetnikoff replied: "At firstyour yield levels are quite low andtherefore your costs are quite high- just like when you start up anaudio plant. The first disc thatcomes out costs a million dollars. . . but it should decrease fromthere. I would expect the marginsin the next few years would beequivalent to record margins," heconcluded.

Yetnikoff also expressed confi-dence in SelectaVision as thedominant mode of consumer discbecause of what he called "lowyield and quality and color prob-lems" with the laser disc.

His Best Shot

At a recent ceremony in celebration of the success of the Pat Benatar hit "Hit Me WithYour Best Shot," ATV Music songwriter Eddie Schwartz is flanked by Bernie Solomon,director of ATV Music Publishing of Canada, and David Evans, president of CapitolRecords EMI of Canada, the Canadian distributor of Benatar's Chrysalis label. Schwartzrecently won the Juno "Composer of the Year" award.

George Harrison Assessed $581,000

In 'My Sweet Lord' Plagiarism CaseNEW YORK - A Manhattan

Federal District Court judge ruledThursday (26) that ex-BeatleGeorge Harrison must pay $587,-000 in damages because he "sub-consciously" plagiarized the mel-ody of his 1971 hit, "My SweetLord." The melody he plagiar-ized, according a 1976 decision,was written by John Mack for"He's So Fine," which was a hitfor the Chiffons in 1963.

In his original 1976 decision,Judge Richard Owen set the da-mages at $1.6 million, later un-dertaking a "discovery" processto lower the figure.

The judge, who is an amateurcomposer, ruled that althoughHarrison had plagiarized the mel-ody, "I do not believe he did sodeliberately."

Ironically, the publishing rightsto "He's So Fine," originallyowned by a company called BrightTunes, were bought by former

Ronal BrealcoutsSingles

East:Sheena Easton (EMI -America)Steve Winwood (Island)Juice Newton (Capitol)

South:Sheena Easton (EMI -America)Steve Winwood (Island)Terri Gibbs (MCA)Phil Seymour (Boardwalk)Juice Newton (Capitol)Whispers (Solar)

Midwest:Steve Winwood (Island)Terri Gibbs (MCA)Phil Seymour (Boardwalk)Juice Newton (Capitol)

West:Sheena Easton (EMI -America)Grover Washington, Jr. (Elektra)Juice Newton (Capitol)April Wine (Capitol)

Albums

East:Smokey Robinson (Tamla)Diana Ross (Motown)Rainbow (Polydor)Phil Collins (Atco)Peabo Bryson (Capitol)

South:Smokey Robinson (Tamla)Diana Ross (Motown)Rainbow (Polydor)Peabo Bryson (Capitol)

Midwest:Emmylou Harris (Warner Bros.)Smokey Robinson (Tamla)Diana Ross (Motown)Rainbow (Polydor)Phil Collins (Atco)

West:Emmylou Harris (Warner Bros.)Smokey Robinson (Tamla)Rainbow (Polydor)Phil Collins (Atco)

Beatle manager Allen Klein, pres-ident of ABKCO Industries, in1978. At the time of purchase,Klein also acquired the right tocontinue the suit against Harri-son.

Wright Joins Regency LOS ANGELES - Dan Wrighthas joined Regency Records asnational director of A&R, it wasannounced by Lloyd Segal, labelpresident.

As part of his duties at Regen-cy, Wright will administrate in-house publishing for Loretta Mu-sic (BMI) and Squirtface Music(ASCAP).

Prior to his joining Regency,Wright worked for Father Musicas publishing administrator/A&Rmanager, served as manager ofDavid Gates' Kipahulu Music(Screen Gems), and managedStereo West stores in San Fran-cisco.

K -Tel Posts Gains MINNETONKA, MINN. - K -Tel International, Inc. has an-nounced unprecedented levelsof sales and after-tax profits forthe first half of fiscal 1981. Netsales were $109,933,000, up 13percent from the $97,439,000reported for the first half of theprior fiscal year. Net profit forthe six months ended December31, 1980 nearly doubled to $4,-032,000 or $1.21 per share, fromthe $2,167,000, or $.63 per share,earned in last year's first half.

'Healthy and Growing'"K -Tel's growing music busi-

ness together with our success-ful real estate investment anddevelopment will provide fund-ing to allow us rapid expansionin oil and gas exploration anddevelopment in the near future,"said Philip Kives, K -Tel presi-dent. "All three of our businesssegments are healthy and grow-ing and we look forward to ex-citiing progress in the yearsahead."

RECORD WORLD MARCH 7, 1981


Tom Browne.From #111111111)0 Player 1b#1 Hit Maker...

In One Sinooth Step.With his first albuin Ekowne Sugar Tom Browne burst onto the jazz scene, with orie of the mostbrilliant debuts of 1979: His second ,.-4burn Love Approach boa:§ted the. # 1 R&B single -"Funkin'For Jamaica" - and became the nation's #.1 trosSoverlazz album of 1980.411NoW, Torn is back withMagi9 featuring the giant hit "Thighs High.(thip Yoiir hips...And Move)." Soaring up the charts, it'sthe latest bound for -# 1 smshfrorrithis great young star.

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Public TV PactFor AFM, Producers NEW YORK - The AmericanFederation of Musicians of theUnited States and Canada hasreached agreement with produ-cers of public television programs.

The two-year agreement pro-vides for ten percent increases inoverall wages for each year, in-creases in health and welfare con-tributions to $3.25 per day witha maximum of $16.25 per week,and cartage increases to $30 forharp and $6 for other heavy in-struments. In addition, radiosimulcast programs are now to bepaid at the applicable NationalPublic Radio pick-up rates. Agree-ment was also reached concern-ing programs made primarily forpublic television and later usedin supplemental markets.

Under the new agreement, allpermanent members of sym-phony, opera and ballet orches-tras are to be paid for telecastswhether their services are or arenot used. This provision is ap-plicable only to those orchestrasworking under master agreementsand is exclusive of "in studio"telecasts by ballet orchestras.

Integrity Corp.Posts Record Gains NEW YORK - Integrity Enter-tainment Corporation, owner of136 retail stores on the west coast,has announced its net sales andincome for the second quarterand six-month period ended De-cember 31, 1980. Sales of $27,-719,000 and earnings of $1,556,-000 for the quarter were thehighest for any quarter in the his-tory of the company. The com-parable figures for same periodin 1979 were $24,280,000 in netsales and a net income of$621,000.

For the six-month period, thecompany posted net sales of$45,456,000, compared with $39,-303,000 for the same period in1979. Net income for this periodin 1980 was $1,581,000, comparedto a loss of $535,000 for the sameperiod in 1979.

Bandleader Shep Fields

Dies in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES - BandleaderShep Fields, whose RipplingRhythm Orchestra rose to famein the big band era, died of aheart attack last Monday (23) inLos Angeles. He was 70.

Fields, who began his perform-ances by blowing into a straw ina glass filled with water, led hisorchestra from 1934 to 1963,when he disbanded it to becomea talent agent. Among the band'sover 300 records were "Septem-ber in the Rain," "It's De -Lovely,"and his biggest hit, "The JerseyBounce."

Disney Promotes Tenn LOS ANGELES - Ben Tenn,formerly director of Home Videofo; Walt Disney Telecomrnunica-tions and Non -Theatrical Com-pany, has assumed new responsi-bilities as vice president, retailproducts, for the company.

The appointment was an-nounced December 19, 1980 byJames P. Jimirro, president of theDisney division.

In his new position, Tenn over-sees dealer marketing of WaltDisney Home Video products,Walt Disney Super 8 HomeMovies, and Disney SchoolhouseInstructional Materials.

Wald Sues Mason LOS ANGELES-Jeff Wald hasfiled suit against Mystic Inc. andDave Mason for breach of con-tract, asking $180,000 in moniesallegedly due and $50,000 in dam-ages. The suit stems from Wald'srepresentation of Mason as a per-sonal manager from Januarythrough August of 1980. The suitalso asks for an open -book ac-counting of Mason's earningsduring that period.

CorrectionI It was incorrectly reported inRecord World last week that KarlaDeVito was signed to ClevelandInternational Records. In fact, sheis under contract to Epic.

Collins at The Source

Coinciding with the release of his first solo album, "Face Value," Atlantic recordingartist Phil Collins recently visited New York for two days of media interviews. Shownat the studios of NBC's "Source" radio network are, from left, standing: Dan Formentoof The Source, Atlantic local promotion rep Danny Buch, Atlantic director of artist rela-tions Perry Cooper, and Atlantic associate director of national AOR promotion AlanWolmark. Seated are John McGhan of The Source and Phil Collins.

3M Institutes Recording AwardBy GREG

NEW YORK-As the public'sawareness of the various techni-cal aspects of studio recordingsincreases, so do the accolades be-stowed upon these craftsmen. 3Mannounced at a press conferenceWednesday (23) the creation ofthe "Scotty" Master Music MakerAward, an honor to be conferredperiodically to, according to a

prepared statement, the various"teams of artists, producers, en-gineers and studios involved increating outstanding recordings."

Nomination forms have beensent to approximately 1500 re-cording studios nationwide. Stu-dios are permitted to nominateas many of their recordings asmeet the necessary qualifications.3M will automatically contribute$100 to the Muscular DystrophyAssociation in the name of eachstudio submitting a qualifiednomination. Six winning teamswill be honored as "Scotty" win-ners, and 3M will donate $1000to the MDA in the name of thewinning teams. One of the sixteams will be chosen "the best ofthe best." The team's featuredartist will be asked to choose, ac-cording to 3M, "an aspiring mu-sician, who will receive a $5000music scholarship" from the com-pany.

QualificationsAccording to Donald Linehan,

communications manager for3M's Magnetic Audio / VideoProducts Division, the companywill "honor people in the record-ing industry for technical as wellas artistic achievements." DennisFarmer, the division's broadcast/recording market developmentmanager, added: "The recordingbusiness is a people business.When creative people work to-gether on a recording, some won-derful things happen. These won-derful things should be called outfor special attention. The 'Scotty'is 3M's way of saying 'welldone.' "

There are two basic qualifica-tions that the studios must adhereto. Each recording must be certi-fied gold or platinum by the RIAAand must have been completelymastered and mixed on Scotchprofessional audio recordingtape. In addition, for the approxi-mately three awards to be pre-sented this May, the recordingmust have been released betweenJanuary 1, 1980 and December 1,1980. Additional "Scotties" willbe given in December for record-ings made between December 1,1980 and September 15, 1981.The overall "best of the best"winner will be chosen fromamong these six recordings.

"Scotty" winners will be se-lected by a recently -chosen

BRODSKYboard of governors, which willjudge the nominations on thebasis of "artistic and technical ex-cellence." However, 3M will cutthe qualified nominations downto about 25 or 30 recordings be-fore submitting the names to theboard. The five men selected forthe board of governors are pro-ducer Quincy Jones, Joe Tarsia ofSigma Sound, Glen Snoddy ofWoodland Sound, Tom Cahill ofHoward Schwartz Recording andGuy Costa, vice president andmanaging director, Motown Rec-ords. 3M will have a representa-tive on the Board as well.

The award itself is an originaloil painting of both the artist andwinning recording's sheet music.Each winning artist will get theoriginal painting, and the otherteam members will receiveframed productions of the origi-nal. The recording studios havebeen asked to submit their May"Scotty" nominations to their3M sales representative by March15.

Motown UpsRobert L. Jones LOS ANGELES - Robert L.

Jones has been appointed direc-tor of purchasing and facilities forMotown Record Corporation, itwas announced by Fuller B. Gor-dy, vice president of administra-tive services for the label.

Jones has served in varied posi-tions with Motown, most recent-ly production manager and ad-ministrative assistant to the vicepresident of manufacturing.

A&M Taps Freiser LOS ANGELES - HaroldChilds, senior vice presidentsales/promotion, A&M Records,has announced the appointmentof Manny Freiser to the positionof director, marketing adminis-tration. Freiser will report direct-ly to Childs and will haveoverall responsibility for ad-ministration and coordination ofthe sales and promotion de-partments with particular empha-sis on field activities. Freiserwas formerly executive assistantto A&M president Gil Friesen.

Manny Freiser



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BMI offers these nominees for the Academy's approval

BEST MUSIC IN CONNECTION WITH MOTION PICTURES

BEST ORIGINAL SCORETHE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

John Williams

FAMEMichael Gore

and

A CLEAN SWEEP

BEST ORIGINAL SONG"Fame" from FAME

Michael GoreDean Pitchford

"9 to 5" from 9 TO 5Dolly Parton

"On the Road Again"from HONEYSUCKLE ROSE

Willie Nelson

"Out Here On My Own"from FAMEMichael Gore

Lesley Gore (AscAr)

"People Alone"from THE COMPETITION

Lalo SchifrinWilbur Jennings

BMISERVING MUSIC SINCE 1940


Record WorldDialo ue-N The Viewpoints of the Industry

Todd Rundgren on the Emerging Audio -Video IndustryBy JOSEPH IANELLO

Very early in life, Todd Rund-gren developed a learn -by -doingphilosophy that's become theguiding force for one of pop -rock's most creative voices. Hisinnovative approaches to recordproduction and arranging arewell -documented by the successof his solo and group projectsand the many hits he's shapedfor other artists. And throughoutthe seventies, the Rundgren in-quisitiveness pioneered advancesin the application of electronicsto the pop -rock medium. It's only

Todd Rundgren natural, then, that Todd wouldalso lead the growing number of rock musicians experimenting withvideo. He recently opened his $2 million, state-of-the-art UtopiaVideo facility in Bearsville, New York. In this exclusive Record Worlddialogue, Rundgren views the future of the audio -video industry andseveral of his own projects.

Record World: How did you get involved in video?Todd Rundgren: It was the appearance of a video artists' movement.

It really hasn't gone that far today, but in the mid -seventies, there wasa lot of so-called video art being produced, mostly in the New Yorkarea, by people who had some connection with WNET public televi-sion. WNET had a program called Video Tape Review, and they usedto show video art. I got interested in the techniques involved, so I

bought some video equipment and put it in my house and starteddeveloping a personal style. That went on for a couple of years untilI got enough money from productions to get broadcast -quality equip-ment-which is how I built my video studio.

RW: Did you have any background in the visual arts?Rundgren: Not specifically, no.RW: What made you build your studio in Bearsville?Rundgren: I decided to build it there because if I wanted to get

seriously involved with video, I had to have a facility that wasn't goingto be bogged down with all the usual studio business of doing K -Telcommercials, editing soap operas and things like that.

RW: What areas do you see as the most logical for expansion invideo? You've mentioned original art, promotional tapes, and networkshows.

Rundgren: I think the most logical place for expansion in video issome kind of network-either free broadcasting or cable or satellitetelevision-that reaches the largest audience in the shortest amountof time.

RW: You said that your video objectives are non-commercial, yetyou've also indicated that you want to reach the largest audience. Arethose two goals compatible?

Rundgren: Of course. Most artists are like that. When they sit downto work, they're not thinking about how much money they're goingto make, but at the same time they don't want it to be tucked awayin a closet somewhere and not exposed to anybody. I think a lot ofartists would be satisfied to work for the government and get paid asteady wage and have all their work exposed through some sort ofprogram.

RW: What ideas do you have for broadcast television? Are they ex-clusively or entirely music -related?

Rundgren: No, mostly they don't have anything to do with music.Some of them have something to do with music but they're not predi-cated on it. One thing I've been working on is a quasi -documentaryprogram called "How To Run For President." It's more or less a his-torical overview of the evolution of the American political process.

RW: Is this entirely your project? You conceived, produced andscripted it?

Rundgren: Yeah, I didn't do everything but it is a Utopia Video pro-duction. We're also working on several dramatic -oriented programs.We're doing promotional things for albums-mostly our own albums-and those, of course, have to do with music.

RW: What happens when you finish "How To Run For President?"Will you take it to the networks and try to sell it there?

Rundgren: Yes, although we're not sure the networks will go for it,since most people are probably sick of politics after the elections. Itmay be some kind of syndication, possibly educational.

RW: How do you find yourself balancing you career time andmoney among music and video projects?

Rundgren: A lot of the music projects I do are to help pay for thevideo. The video doesn't yet support itself. But I didn't expect it topay for itself for a while.

RW: Whatever happened to "The Planets" (Rundgren's animatedvideo project about the travels of a young boy, based on Englishcomposer Gustav Hoist's symphonic composition)?

Rundgren: The status is still undetermined. We're still trying to geta release on the music. That's always been the hang-up with "ThePlanets"-ever since I discovered the Hoist estate didn't like thelatest version of the music. They didn't specifically say we couldn'trelease it, but if we did, they would enjoin it.

RW: Are you anywhere near reaching an agreement?Rundgren: We're in the midst of wrangling an agreement. I hope

to possibly complete one within the next month. Then we'd finishthe project and go to a number of places with it. We've had offersfrom film distribution companies to have it transferred to film forviewing in theaters. It could be duplicated and sold as a cassette oreven a videodisc. That's the bottom rung on the ladder, though,because they (videodisc companies) don't pay for anything. Theymight give a $1,500 licensing fee, which doesn't cover your lunchbills for a month. "Planets" was originally supposed to be a video-:.E .E EE .

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disc. RCA contracted me to do a videodisc as a demo of what thesoftware possibilities for a disc would be. I went to them with a sampleof things I'd done and they liked my treatment of it ("The Planets")and told me to expand on it. They gave me a budget that coveredabout one -fifth of the production cost of the first side. I paid for therest myself.

RW: Record companies are using video primarily as a promotionaltool-investing money in video to sell records rather than trying tomarket the video itself and recoup the money there. Do you thinkthis is going to change?

Rundgren: It may change at some point. Things that have beendone specifically for video have not met with a great deal of com-mercial success at this point.

RW: Is that because they weren't conceived for commercial use?Rundgren: Partly that and partly because the market doesn't exist.

Until someone comes up with something that transcends the promolook and feel it will remain that way. And it's not necessarily therecord companies who are going to make that happen. They areinterested in video as a means to expose their artists because that'stheir business.

RW: Is that also because they don't see a market out there yet?Rundgren: Well, it's not really their business. They're not in the

video business, they're in the record business.RW: And you don't see them moving into video as a business?Rundgren: Not unless they start a video division. But most video

divisions are just an office in the record company that deals with videoon a promo level.

RW: One of your major criticisms of record companies is that theydon't invest any money in video software.

Rundgren: Essentially, but I don't think it's their business unlessthey want to become seriously involved in it, and then it transcends




Gospel Music )81

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Gospel Music Week.Special Keynote SpeakerSeminars & workshops

Artist showcasesContinental break fastsSponsored luncheonsConcert Spectaculars

GMA general membership meetingArtists -only afterglow sessions

The12th Annual

GMA Dove Awardsand anmiaf Gospel Music Haff of Fame Induction

Opryfand Hotel ComplexApril 12-15, 1981

For reservations and information contactGospel Music Association P.O. Box 23201

Nashviffe, TN 37202


Record World PicksSiTHE CLASH-Epic 19-51013

HITSVILLE U.K. (prod. bygroup) (writers: group)(Nineden) (4:22)

The top 40 success of last year's"Train In Vain" opened the doorto pop radio for these British stal-warts. This initial release from thethree -record "Sandinista!" openswith keyboard reverence, choir-boy (and girl, with the presenceof Ellen Foley) vocals and an ap-propriate theme for further ac-ceptance on American pop radio.

MICHAEL STANLEY BAND-EMI-America 8064

LOVER (prod. by group)(writer: Stanley)(Michael Stanley/Bema,ASCAP) (3:40)

With each LP, this Cleveland -based outfit attracts a wider audi-ence. Culled from the "Heart-land" LP, this power ballad fo-cuses on Stanley's biting vocaldrama which immediately calls tomind Springsteen imagery. Clar-ence Clemons guest sax slot, anda big emphatic hook highlight.

JOAN JETT & The Blackhearts-Boardwalk 8-5706

YOU DON'T OWN ME(prod. by Jones -Cook)(writers: Madara-White) (Merjoda, BMI)(2:47)

Jett continues to develop as a

vocalist with this Lesley Goreclassic from '64. Exuding youth-ful innocence on the verses andindependent determination onthe choruses, she gets a big boostfrom ex -Sex Pistols Steve Jonesand Paul Cook. Their productionblast adds to the AOR-pop appeal.

GRACE SLICK-RCA 12171

SEA OF LOVE (prod. byFrangipane) (writer:S. Zito) (Spider Zee,BMI) (3:39)

After experimenting with severaldifferent styles on recent LPs,Grace is back rocking hard on thisinitial release from "Welcome tothe Wrecking Ball." Lead guitaristScott Zito (who wrote the song)whips and whines against a solidrhythm grind. Most impressive isGrace's vocal, especially on thecrying hook swells.

PoPTHRILLS-G & P 10001BREAKING MY HEART (prod. by Frenchik)

(writers: Ingegno-Frenchik-Monaco)(Great People/Beautiful Day, BMI)(3:13)

The quartet could break wideopen with this energetic pop -rocker from the new "First Thrills"LP. Agile keyboards wind aroundthe solid rhythm kick while TonyMonaco's slick lead vocal deliversthe well -crafted hook. Well wortha listen.

RITA COOLIDGE-A&M 2318WORDS (prod. by Anderle) (writers: Gibb

Bros.) (Casserole/Unichappell, BMI)(3:25)

Rita offers this top 20 Bee Gees'classic from '68 as the initial re-lease off her "Greatest Hits"package. Stately strings provide aserene backdrop for her gentlevocal drama.

NIELSEN/PEARSON-Capitol4982

GIVIN' YOUR LOVE TO ME (prod. byLandis) (writers: Nielsen -Pearson)(Third Story/Poorhouse, BMI) (3:32)

Reed Nielsen's vocal longing iscomplemented by producer Rich-ard Landis' mini-moog seasoningand Tom Scott's lyricon. A pretty,melodic contender for pop -A/Cradio.

ZIGGURAT-Robox 7932ALONE TONIGHT (prod. by Reneau)

(writer: McWhorter) (Emerywille, BMI)(4:05)

A relentless, driving rhythm trans-ports Dave Sanson's bold vocalon this debut single from theGeorgia -based quintet. Attractivekeyboard lines and a big hookmake it radio -right.

HENRY GROSS-Capitol 4980HOW LONG IS FOREVER (prod. by

Colornby) (writer: Gross) (LittleStinker/Blendingwell, ASCAP) (3:58)

Gross' light tenor tip toes alongthe falsetto -soprano line on thispretty love ballad. Delicate gui-tar/bass lines fit in the nice ar-rangement and Michael Breckerapplies a stylish sax solo.

EDGAR WINTER-Blue Sky6-70068 (CBS)

LOVE IS EVERYWHERE (prod. by Winter)(writer: Winter) (Hierophant, BMI(13:49)

The initial single from his new"Standing on Rock" is a romanticballad that's headed for heavy ro-tation on pop, AOR and A/C for-mats. Winter's love -drenched vo-cal lounges on a thick keyboardcarpet.

MANFRED MANN'S EARTHBAND-WB 49678

FOR YOU (prod. by Mann) (writer:Springsteen( (Bruce Springsteen/Laurel Canyon, ASCAP) (3:50)

Mann's success with Springsteencovers is well documented("Blinded by the Light," "Spiritin the Night"), so this initial re-lease from his "Chance" LPmakes a lot of sense. Great ma-terial for AOR and pop radio.

STEVE CROPPER-MCA 51078PLAYIN' MY THANG (prod. by Cropper -

Robb) (writer: Cropper) (Insomnia/Wooded Lake/ATV, BMI) (3:43)

The anonymous guitarist behindso many pop -rock hits of the '60sand '70s puts his best thang for-ward on this title cut from thenew LP. Proud guitar sass gracesthe rhythm boil.

NRBQ-Red Rooster 1007(Rounder)

NEVER TAKE THE PLACE OF YOU (prod.by NRBQ( (writer: Anderson)(Hi Varieties, ASCAP) (3:19)

Al Anderson's lead vocal isdreamy pop -A/C fare that wouldbe very comfortable in a smokeylounge setting. Terry Adams' pi-ano tinkles add to the aura whileWhole Wheat .saxman KeithSpring gets toasty.

THE ROMANTICS-Nemperor6-70063 (CBS)

A NIGHT LIKE THIS (prod. by Solley)(writers: Palmar-Marinos-Skill)(Forever Endeavor, ASCAP) (3:36)

The Detroit -based quartet grindsout unbridled rock that has rootsin Yardbirds and Animals classics.Coz Candler's vocal growls andWally Palmar's guitar strife areprimed for radio reaction.

BD.S./PopRAY, GOODMAN & BROWN-

Polydor 2159SHOESTRINGS (.WITH RAP) (prod. by

Castellano) (writers: group -Walter)(Dark Cloud/H.A.B., BMI) (3:34)

From lofty falsetto to robust bari-tone, this trio covers all bases.The harmonies are exhilaratingand the chorus hook is certain tostick on numerous formats.

BETTY WRIGHT-Epic 19-51009WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH IT

(prod. by Wonder) (writer: Wonder)(Jobete/Black Bull/Danbet, ASCAP)(3:411

With writing and production sup-port from Stevie Wonder, Wrighttakes a shot at pop crossover suc-cess on this initial release fromher self -titled LP. Her vocal shim-mers and shakes with hot sauci-ness on every rhythmic note.

SHEILA HYLTON-Mango 108THE BED'S TOO BIG WITHOUT YOU

(prod. by Harry J) (writer: Sting)(Virgin/Chappell, ASCAP) (3:501

Jamaican reggae artist Hylton is amodel who sounds as good asshe looks. This update of thePolice song has a recurring bassriff that rumbles with lovelornemotion.

JAMES BROWN-TK 1042STAY WITH ME (prod. by Brown)

(writers: Byrd -Brown) (Third World,ASCAP) (4:09)

Syndrum fireworks, a powerfulrhythm section, chorus coos andsharp horn injections join Jameson this marvelous finger -snapperfrom the "Soul Syndrome" LP.

TAVARES-Capitol 4969LONELINESS (prod. by Wright, Jr.)

(writers: Wright -Price) (Ritesonian/Bogani's, ASCAP) (3:12)

Culled from the "Love Uprising"LP, there's loads of soulful croon-ing on this wistful ballad. Thickharmonies and swirling stringscomplete the full sound.

DENNIS BROWN-A&M 2313FOUL PLAY (prod. by Gibbs -Hunt)

(writer: Gibson) (Irving/Joe Gibbs,BMI) (3:20)

Black and pop radio should em-brace this lively reggae artist im-mediately. Scintillating keyboardsand a chorus hook ride a muscu-lar rhythm guitar. Brown's vocalis captivating.

WEBSTER LEWIS-Epic 19-51014LET ME BE THE ONE (prod. by Lewis -

Veal, Jr.) (Chazzee/Chns, ASCAP/Take Note, BMI) (3:45)

Lewis lets loose with an inspiredvocal on this side from his forth-coming "Let Me Be The One" LP.Herbie Hancock's keyboards andDavid T. Walker's rhythm guitarrun full throttle.

WANDA WALDEN/NARADAMICHAEL WALDEN-Elektra47109

SEARCHIN` FOR LOVE (prod. by N.Walden) (writers: N. Walden -Willis)(Walden, ASCAP/Gratitude Sky, BMI)(3:10)

Wanda joins brother-in-law Mi-chael for a heated vocal harmonyand lead trade on this title cutfrom her forthcoming debut LP.An impressive ballad with cross-over in the grooves.

THE WALLER FAMILY-DynamicArtists 1102

WITHOUT YOU TONIGHT (prod. byCarter) (writer: Carter, Jr.) (Hot Gold,BMI) (4:21)

The Richmond, Va.-based quintethas enjoyed considerable region-al success with this sensitive bal-lad from the "Love Moods" LP.Chris Waller's tiny falsetto is thecenterpiece that could give thisnational attention.

SIDE EFFECT-Elektra 47112MAKE YOU MINE (prod. by Johnson -

Henderson) (writer: Ross) (Relaxed/Happy Birthday/Tuff Cookie, BMI)13:14)

From the forthcoming "Portraits"LP, this funky track finds the L.A.-based quartet fronting AugieJohnson's vocal lead over smoothharmony backing. Keyboardswirls bounce off a boss bass inthe interesting arrangement.



Record World remains the leader inproviding news coverage ofthe gospelmusic industry. Our Gospel Special,"Moving Ahead in '81',' is again linkedwith Gospel Music Week and theDove Awards program. Help us pre-sent an in-depth look at contemporaryChristian music.

Issue Date: April 18Ad Deadline: March 31

For further information contact:Tom Rodden (213) 465-6126


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DIFFICULT TO CURERAINBOW-Polydor PD -1-6316 (8.98)

With the help of some new per-sonnel, guitar stormtrooperRitchie Blackmore is already con-quering the AOR waves with thisLP, produced by former DeepPurple cohort Roger Glover. "ISurrender" is a strong Russ Bal-lard tune, and "Magic" is a hookthat will stick with U.S. radio.

FRANKE & THE KNOCKOUTSMillennium BXL1-7755 (RCA) (7.98)Franke (pronounced Frankie) Pre-vite is not unlike Bad Compary'sPaul Rodgers in his ability to shiftfrom rough to smooth timbres,with the power to sing rock andthe ability to shape soulful inflec-tions. The single "Sweetheart,""She's A Runner" and "AnnieGoes Hollywood" exemplify thevariety of which this New York -area band is capable.

FROM BRANCH TO BRANCHLEON REDBONE-Emerald City EC 38-136

(At!) (7.98)Redbone remained an obscurecoffeehouse artist until a "Satur-day Night Live" appearance ex-posed his eccentric approach totraditional music to a nationalaudience. Now on a new label,he treats standards like "YourCheatin' Heart," "My Blue Heav-en" and Jelly Roll Morton's"Why."

SAY NO MOREBADFINGER-P.adio RR 16030 (At!) (7.98)The flawless harmonies that es-tablished Badfinger's own brandof pop on songs like "Come AndGet It" are here intact, in a con-text that's right in step with 1981.Now on a new label, they'recrafting hooks once again withbright tunes like "Come On,""Because I Love You," "ThreeTime Loser" and the LP's dra-matic finale "No More."

TO LOVE AGAINDIANA ROSS-Motown M8 -951M1 (8.98)One of those greatest -hits pack-ages with new selections featur-ing tunes written and producedby Michael Masser for Ross from1973 to the present. Includes"Theme from Mahogany," "TouchMe in the Morning," "It's MyTurn," the title song, and threedramatic new ballads.

THE PLIMSOULSPlanet P-13 (E/A) (7.98)

Once voted the "best unsignedband in L.A.," the Plimsouls seemto have made the transition tovinyl with grace and style. Theirrock has a soulful edge on "IWant You Back," and tunes like"Everyday Things" and "LostTime" reveal a versatility in song -writing that will keep up the AORairplay for some time to come.

WHAT A BLOWIAN GOMM-Stiff/Epic JE 36433 (7.98)One of the most unassumingmembers of the Stiff stable,Gomm (who hit the top 20 with"Hold On") is also one of itsfinest song craftsmen. Tastefulpop production by Martin Ru-shent brings out the best in titleslike "Man on a Mountain," "Jeal-ously," "Nobody's Fool" and acover of "Slow Dancin'."

HOW 'BOUT USCHAMPAIGN-Columbia JC 37008 (7.98)

Named for the Illinois town fromwhich they hail, this group is bul-leting BOS and pop with theirdebut single, and the album ofthe same title holds many morepotential hits, like the sultry"Fire," "Dancin' Together Again"and "Lighten Up" with its bouncybacking vocal novelties.

RIGHT TRACKWILSON PICKETT-EMI-America

SW -17043 (7.98)

The originalsoul manreturns with anLP that willsatisfy thecurrent dancemarket while

emaining true to the uniquequalities of his voice. His own"Help Me Be Without" is a goodreason to say "welcome back!"

FEELS SO RIGHTALABAMA-RCA AHL1 3930 (7.98)

This quartet hasachieved anear -perfectcountry -A/Csynthesis,combiningvocal melodies

and harmonies with an easyguitar -laden sound that will workon many formats. "Love in theFirst Degree" and "Hollywood"warrant attention.

FOUL PLAYDENNIS BROWN-A&M SP 4850 (7.98)

With the helpof ace Jamaicansession playerslike bassistRobbie Shakes-peare anddrummer Sly

Dunbar, Brown finds his owngroove with steady -chuggingriffs like "On The Rocks," andhaunting choruses like the titlecut.

CRUISIN' FOR A BRUISIN'MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD-Takoma TAK

7C91 (Chrysalis) (7.98)

This LP wasready to gojust prior toBloomfield'suntimely death.His guitar is afountain of

b,ues variety, and it's a pleasureto hear him on the instrumental"Papa-Mama-Rompah Stompah"and the fast -paced "It'll Be Me."



HAWKSAREFLYING!They got together in a

state of the art recording

studio nestled somewhere

in Otho, Iowa...their demos

put Otho on the map of

every A & R department in

America...Columbia Records

figured out how to get to

Otho first...the feathers

have just begun to fly...

HAWicip. AN AMERICANDREAM BAND.FEATURING THE HITSINGLE,"RIGHT AWAY."

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ON COLUMBIA RECORDSAND TAPES.Produced by Tom Werman for Julia's Music, Inc.

Management and Direction: Shelly Finkel and Jirr Koplik.

"Columbia" is a trademark of CBS Inc. ©1981 CES Inc.



Two Radio SyndicatorsPushing Rock Histories

By PHIL DiMAUROII NEW YORK-Two major pro-ducers and syndicators of pro-gramming for radio, Drake Che-nault and Westwood One, arecurrently pushing full-length mu-sic specials of a historical nature.While the two shows are differentin content and are aimed at dif-ferent audiences, the fact thatboth companies have chosen thisperiod to sell their new productsis an indication of certain attitudesamong radio listeners today.

The Drake-Chenault program,"History Of Rock and Roll," is anupdated, "silver anniversary" ver-sion of the 1978 program of thesame title. Thirteen new hourshave been added while leavingthe show's 52 -hour length in-tact. The show, featuring artistinterviews in addition to music,is narrated by Bill Drake.

The special program's producer,Bill Watson, explained that thethirteen new hours were addedwithout deleting actual contentby "capsulizing" the previoushours, beginning with the birth ofrock 'n' roll.

Westwood One's special, "TheRock Years," is an entirely newproject, 48 hours in length, cov-ering the period 1965 to thepresent in chronological order. Inaddition to charting the historyof the music, the show also pro-vides cultural background andexamines the music against themajor events of the period."We've done everything from in-terviewing Jane Fonda, to talkingabout 'Saturday Night Live,' togoing through the news archives,"explained Norman Pattiz, presi-dent of Westwood One. "Wewant to give people today, a

chance to reflect upon what itwas like then."

Bert Kleinman, producer of"The Rock Years," said that whilethe show is "not designed to re-place a good book" on rock his-tory, it is meant to be "informa-tive entertainment." In Kleinman'sview, "What radio does best is

re-create the feeling" of a certaintime. During this period, he ob-served, "the growth of rock 'n'roll was inseparable from thegrowth of a lifestyle."

The Westwood One show istailored mainly for AOR stations,while Drake Chenault's "His-tory . . ." is aimed, in the wordsof its producer, at "mass appealpop music stations," which couldmean anything from a "top 40

that rocks hard" to a "pop/adultstation." In a time when "frag-mentation" is an often -used buzz-word, it's hard to imagine how ashow that ranges from ChuckBerry to Kenny Rogers, and coversartists as diverse as Dionne War-wick and Led Zeppelin, works aswell as it does. The packaging,according to Watson, is the key."It is a special," said Watson, inwhich context, playing a recordis "vastly different from playingit in rotation. Even a hard rockrerun of the sixties will be accep-table to the entire audience."

Both syndicators are banking,to a certain degree, on the nos-talgia factor to pull in older lis-teners, and contemporary cover-age to pull in the younger, in thehope that these magnets will keeppeople listening to the programs.

It also seems, however, thatolder music is a magnet for cer-tain listeners of all ages. Watsoncited the recent number one rat-ings enjoyed by KRLA in LosAngeles, a station which he called"oldies -oriented," and the greatpopularity of Los Angeles' KRTH,an oldies station. Kleinman alsonoted, on the basis of focus groupresearch conducted for alternatepurposes, that there is "an in-credible interest, particularly inthe late sixties, on the part ofyoung teenagers."

"The Rock Years" will beworld -premiered on WNEW-FM,New York, for 48 hours straighton March 13, 14 and 15. The up-dated "History Of Rock and Roll"is scheduled for March release.

Seawind Breezes Through Roxy

AILM's Seawind played to a sell-out crowd on their opening night of a three -nightstand at the Roxy. The band is currently on tour in support of their new self -titledalbum, and their next stops will be the Philippines, Japan and native Hawaii. Picturedbackstage, from left, are: Pauline Wilson, lead vocalist, Seawind; Jerry Moss, ARMChairman; Larry Williams; Ken Wild; Bob Wilson; Bud Nuanex, and Kim Hutchcroft;all of Seawind.

NewYork. MlfBy DAVID McGEE

GRAMMY FALLOUT: "It was the worst evening of my life. I've

never been so humiliated." With those words industry veteran VinceRomeo, who currently manages Angela Bofill, summed up a ratherbizarre encounter he had with the Radio City Music Hall security forceonly two minutes before this year's Grammy Awards show was togo on the air.

Romeo was seated in row EE of the orchestra-well within camerarange-along with Wayne Forte (head of contemporary music at Wil-liam Morris), Lee Solomon (head of variety music at William Morris)and Solomon's wife. They had paid for their seats to the tune of$175 apiece. Romeo and company were chatting away, minding theirown business, when an usher told them they would have to vacatetheir seats so that a certain artist, who shall go unnamed, could beseen on TV.

Romeo asked where they were going to be seated, and the reply,he claims, was "We don't know, but we'll find something for you."Finally, Romeo stated in no uncertain terms: "I'm not going to get up.I'll look like a fool; everybody behind me knows me." At whichpoint eight or nine security guards (by Romeo's count) sauntereddown the aisle to forcibly remove the entourage from its seats. Romeoclaims one of the guards said to him: "If you don't come out of thatseat, I'll fix you."

Romeo picks up the story: "At that point I decided it was just toohumiliating to continue. So we had to walk up the entire aisle atRadio City Music Hall. My ego said, maybe nobody noticed it andyou're making a big thing out of nothing. Sometimes our egos arebigger than we are. The people at Radio City gave us a letter ofapology and I said, 'that's wonderful.' They said they would returnmy money. And then they said they would seat us in the back all theway over on the left side in the $50 seats. I didn't want to sit there,and if we had it would have looked like we had really tried to pull afast one, tried to sit up front and were thrown out of our seats.It was better that we left the Music Hall."

Which is what the party did, adjourning to "21" for dinner andfrom there to the New York Hilton, where the NARAS festivities werebeing held. Romeo says that as soon as he entered the Hilton "ten or12 people were on line wanting to know why I was gate-crashing."

The upshot? Romeo is instituting a lawsuit against Radio City,Grammy Show executive producer Pierre Cosette and the securityguard who threatened to "fix" him.

FOOTBALL NEWS: The latest chapter in the Paul McCartney "On,Wisconsin" saga has the former Beatle turning down WisconsinGovernor Lee S. Dreyfus' request that the official state and universitysong, to which McCartney owns rights, be turned over to the state asa gift "in honor of your former colleague John Lennon, who was sotragically murdered."

McCartney's New York lawyer, Lee V. Eastman, told the New YorkTimes that the song was part of a group of important old collegetunes published as an entity, and that "it would be a great disservicefor 'On, Wisconsin' to separate it" from, say, "The Buckeye Battle Cry"and "Notre Dame Victory March."

The best part of the story is that "On, Wisconsin" supposedly pullsin less royalties than the other college songs because of the sad stateof the University's football team. Said Eastman: "I should have toldGovernor Dreyfus that instead of worrying about songs, he shouldwork on getting them a good football team."

Go, Lee.And here at Record World, the Drop Back 10 and Punt Award goes

to our own Al Cunniff, RW's southeastern editor/manager, who wentan amazing three -for -three in the misspelled names department lastweek. Big Al sent in a picture of the Mandrel! Sisters and ConwayTwitty in the company of three pro football players (one retired, twoactive), and got each gridder's name wrong. So we had: (sic) FranTarkington (Al must've been thinking of Booth-and we don't meanAlbie Booth); "Mean" Joe Green (Al must've ate the last "e"), andVince Feragama (not to be confused with Georgia Frontiere).

Al is hereby ordered to spend a weekend with "The Mouth ThatBored," aka "The Duke of Drivel" (thank you, Oscar Madison), How-ard Cosell. Will he live to tell the tale?

DELETE ROSANNE CASH, INSERT JOE ELY: Never let it be saidthat New York, N.Y. isn't ever -alert to its own miscues. In the latestedition of Columbia's Red Alert newsletter, someone is kind enoughto point out that in a recent rave review in this column RosanneCash's first album was referred to as "arguably the best country


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ing."The newcomer's multiple vic-

tories were not the only surprisesof the 23rd annual National Aca-demy of Recording Arts and Sci-ences awards show. Interestingly,in the only category in whichCross lost, the result was also un-expected: Kenny Loggins' "This IsIt" (Columbia) won Best Pop Vo-cal Performance, beating Cross,Sinatra, Rogers and Paul Simon's"Late in the Evening" (WarnerBros.).

Simon, who hosted the show,had performed his song momentsbefore the award was given toLoggins. Obviously disappointed,Simon jokingly told the audi-ence: "A lot of people couldn'trecover after doing a song likethat and then losing the award."

Among the other surprises ofthe evening were the fact that Si-natra, Rogers and Stevie Wonderwon no awards (although DavidMcClintock did cop the Best Al-bum Notes prize for his annota-tion of Sinatra's "Trilogy") andthe fact that Barbra Streisand'sphenomenally successful collabo-ration with Barry Gibb won onlyone.

The two superstars' perform-ance on the title track of the"Guilty" album won Best Pop Vo-cal Performance by a Duo orGroup, but neither the album it-self nor the single "Woman InLove" won in any of the four ca-tegories in which they had beennominated.

For the most part, Streisandand Gibb were victims of thestunning Cross sweep, whichplaced them in distinguishedcompany. Streisand was also ingood company (Donna Summer,Olivia Newton -John, and IreneCara, whose performance of"Fame" opened the telecast) inlosing to Bette Midler in the ca-tegory Best Pop Vocal Perform-ance, Female. Midler won for herrecording of "The Rose."

Cross was the only multiplewinner on the Grammy telecast,which was seen live on CBS inthe U.S. and via satellite by anestimated 100 million viewersworldwide. But there had beenother big winners announced ata brief pre -telecast ceremony,also at Radio City, at which 44of the 59 awards were presented.

George Benson won Grammysfor Best R&B Vocal Performance,Male (for his Qwest/WarnerBros. album "Give Me theNight"); Best Jazz Vocal Per-formance, Male (for the track"Moody's Mood"); and Best R&BInstrumental Performance (forthe track "Off Broadway"). Athird track on the album,"Dinorah, Dinorah," arranged byQuincy Jones and Jerry Hey, wasnamed Best Instrumental Ar-rangement.

Christopher Cross Wins FourIn the classical area, the big

winners were violinist ItzhakPerlman and the Alban Bergopera "Lulu." Perlman won BestClassical Performance, Instru-mental Soloist Without Or-chestra (for "The Spanish Al-bum"); Best Chamber Perform-ance ("Music for Two Violins,"with Pinchas Zukerman); andBest Classical Performance, In-strumental Soloist With Or-chestra, in which he tied withhimself, winning for the Brahms"Double Concerto" with Mstis-lav Rostropovich and for analbum of Berg and Stravinsky.

"Lulu" won Best Opera Re-cording, Best Classical Albumand Best Engineered ClassicalRecording (Karl -August Naeglerwas the engineer).

The Grammy telecast, whichwas the first national awardspresentation to emanate fromRadio City and the first NewYork Grammy show since 1975,featured performances by anumber of the nominated artists.One highlight was a rousingversion of "The Lord's Prayer"by Reba Rambo and an all-stargroup of gospel singers, whichsubsequently was named BestContemporary or InspirationalGospel Performance.

Another highlight was an en-tire segment devoted to countrymusic, featuring performancesby Barbara Mandrel!, GeorgeJones, the Oak Ridge Boys, andMickey Gilley's Urban CowboyBand.

Jones was a surprise winnerin the Best Male Country Vocal-ist category for "He StoppedLoving Her Today" (Epic). Hisemotional acceptance speechwas one of the warmest moments

Skyy's The Limit

Grammys (Continued from pageof the evening. The othercountry winners were Anne Mur-ray, "Could I Have ThisDance" (Capitol), female vocal-ist; Roy Orbison and EmmylouHarris, "That Lovin' You Feelin'Again" (Warner Bros.) duo orgroup vocal; Gilley's UrbanCowboy Band, "Orange BlossomSpecial/Hoedown" (Full Moon/Asylum), instrumental perform-ance; and Willie Nelson's "Onthe Road Again" (Columbia),song of the year.

The rock winners were PatBenatar, "Crimes of Passion"(Chrysalis), female vocalist; BillyJoel, "Glass Houses," male vocal-ist; Bob Seger and the SilverBullet Band, "Against the Wind"(Capitol), duo or group withvocal; and the Police, "Reggattade Blanc" (A&M), instrumentalperformance.

The R&B winners, besidesBenson, were Stephanie Mills,"Never Knew Love Like ThisBefore" (20th Century -Fox),female vocalist; the Manhattans,"Shining Star" (Columbia), duoor group with vocal; and "NeverKnew Love Like This Before" byReggie Lucas and James Mtume,best song.

Phil Ramone was named Pro-ducer of the Year for his workon Joel's "Glass Houses" andSimon's "One -Trick Pony."

Prior to the telecast, therehad reportedly been consider-able debate about whether ornot to include some kind oftribute to John Lennon on theprogram. In what appeared tobe a compromise, Simonclosed the show by offering hisown tribute to Lennon on be-half of NARAS, saying how"sorry" and "outraged" the

Salsoul recording artists Skyy recently appeared at New York's Bottom Line. Shownbackstage after their show are from left, rear: Ray Harris, RCA's division vice president,black music; Ken Cayre, vice president of Salsoul Records; Butch Sierra and SolomonRoberts, Jr. of Skyy; Hilda Williams, A&R administration, black music, RCA Records;Salsoul artist Cameron; Larry Greenberg of Skyy; Skyy producer Randy Muller; Skyy'sTommy McConnell; Jack Craigo, division vice president, RCA Records-U.S.A. andCanada; Gerard Lebon of Skyy; Keith Jackson, RCA's director, product management,black music; Basil Marshall, manager, product management, black music; (leaning incenter) Robert Wright, A&R producer, black music, RCA Records; front: Bonne Dunning,Dolores Dunning -Milligan and Denice DunningCrawford of Skyy and Sharon Heyward,RCA's New York field promotion representative, black music.

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members of the Academy wereabout his death.

During the show, specialTrustees Awards were given tocomposer Aaron Copland andjazz great Count Basie, althoughneither man was on hand toaccept his award.

The other winners were:Best Pop Instrumental Per-

formance: Bob James and EarlKlugh, "One on One."

Best Jazz Fusion Performance:Manhattan Transfer, "Birdland."

Best Cast Show Album:"Evita."

Best Recording for Children:Various Artists, "In Harmony."

Best Jazz Vocal Performance,Female: Ella Fitzgerald, "A Per-fect Match."

Best Jazz Instrumental Per-formance, Big Band: CountBasie, "On the Road."

Best Gospel Performance,Traditional: Blackwood Brothers,"We Come to Worship."

Best Soul Gospel Perform -Contemporary: Shirley Caesar,"Rejoice."

Best Soul Gospel Perform-ance, Traditional: James Cleve-land and the Charles FoldSingers, "Lord, Let Me Be AnInstrument."

Best Inspirational Perform-ance: Debby Boone, "With MySong I Will Praise Him."

Best Ethnic or TraditionalRecording: "Rare Blues," pro-duced by Norman Dayron.

Best Latin Recording: CalTjader, "La Onda Va Bien."

Best Comedy Recording: Rod-ney Dangerfield, "No Respect."

Best Spoken Word, Docu-mentary or Drama Recording:Pat Carroll, "Gertrude Stein,Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein."

Best Instrumental Composi-tion: John Williams, "The Em-pire Strikes Back."

Best Original Score Album:"The Empire Strikes Back."

Best Album Package: "Againstthe Wind," Roy Kohara, artdirector.

Best Arrangement for Voices:"Birdland," Janis Siegel, vocalarranger.

Best Historical Reissue: "Se-govia - The EMI Recordings1927-39."

Best Engineered Recording:"The Wall," James Guthrie, en-gineer.

Best Classical Orchestral Re-cording: Bruckner, Sympony No.6, George Solti conducting Chi-cago Symphony Orchestra.

Best Choral Performance:Mozart Requiem, Carlo MaruaGiulini, conductor.

Best Classical Vocal Soloist:Leontyne Price, "Prima Donna,Volume 5."

Classical ProducerYear: Robert Woods.

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Portnow (Continued from page 3)steps taken to correct them. SaidPortnow, 1980 was "pretty muchthe same" for 20th as for othercompanies-that is, a recoveryyear-"except that the recoverythat was needed here was prob-ably a little more severe thanelsewhere. The 1978 figures herewere devastating; the losses werevery severe."

Those losses, he added,"prompted Fox (the corporation)to re -think its operation, and de-termine that it would be a licens-ing situation rather than a dis-tributed situation. So not onlywere we going from an almostbottomless pit of loss in 1978-we also went through the entiretransition of losing a staff, makinga deal with somebody and start-ing over from scratch, really. '79was the beginning of that, but '80really was the year that showed. . . that the record company's aviable operation for the corpo-ration and can be counted on tomake a contribution to the bot-tom line in the future."

When he joined 20th Century -Fox after having been RCA's divi-sion vice president, artists andrepertoire, Portnow's attentionwas first directed to 20th's artistroster, which he described as

"pretty much a disaster" at thattime.was quite a bit of product andnot much talent," he said. "Wecut better than 50 percent of theexisting roster, and I felt the bestway to get started was to identifythe things that were here thatmade some sense."

As it turned out, most of theartists that "made some sense"-including Stephanie Mills, GeneChandler, Edwin Starr and others-were black performers, a situ-ation that Portnow said "wasoriginally more by default thanby design" but has now "becomepart of the design." Portnowfound that "there really wasn't asingle pop act that was here thatI thought was particularly viable,"although some were retained to

UFO at 'DVE

fulfill contractual obligations andso on. Since the label did havestrong black talent, including actsprovided by Carl Davis' Chi -Sound label, as well as an r&bstaff which "appeared to be verystrong," Portnow "took my cuefrom what was (already) happen-ing" and "continued in that di-rection." It also helped that"simultaneous with that, r&b ex-ploded in the marketplace again,as it every once in a while doesand should," and that "RCA as acompany tightened up its blackdivision."

Overall, Portnow continued,"I'm very comfortable with r&b,"but now, "having that fairlysmooth operation, we can thinkabout expanding the base" intopop and rock areas. Such acts asAir Raid, Jim Photoglo and ChrisMontan, as well as newer signingslike Diana Canova (a personalityfrom the TV shows "Soap" and"I'm a Big Girl Now"), DustySpringfield and the Staples willhelp effect that expansion, Port -now said. "We expect to be afull -line record company, at leastwith respect to pop acts, and wewill be."

20th's arrangement with RCA,Portnow explained, is technically"a licensing deal" wherein "allservices" pro-motion, merchandising, advertis-ing, publicity, sales, etc.-areprovided by RCA and 20th Cen-tury's role is that of "a productionoutfit delivering product on a

regular basis." However, headded, "in reality, we're operatingmore as a small record companyhere. For one thing, my prede-cessor, Alan Livingston, felt thatsome staff had to be maintainedunder any licensing deal in orderto get a fair shot for our product";thus the label retains an in-housestaff of about 25 people. "Num-ber two, the name of 20th Cen-tury -Fox is no small entity. Peo-ple think of Fox as a major corpo-ration-their other entities, in


Chrysalis Recording group UFO met with personnel from radio station WDVE in Pitts-burgh. The group has just commenced a U.S. tour in support of their recently releasedLP, "The Wild, The Willing and The Innocent." Pictured from left: Shawn Portmann,WDVE sales manager; Lenny Evanoff, PIKS promotion; Phil Mogg, lead singer UFO;Dave Lang, PD at WOVE; Peter Way, bassist; Roxy Myzal, Chrysalis national albummanager.

Me CoastBy SAMUEL GRAHAM and ELIOT SEKULER

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: When MCA president Bob Siner makes anofficial visit to Michigan's Jackson State Prison on March 6, he won'tbe the first chief executive of a record company to hear the irondoors slam shut. Actually, Bob will be attending a B.B. King concertthat the bluesman is performing as a benefit for the maximum se-curity facility's prisoners. Way back when, though, the great recordproducer and entrepreneur Huey Meaux supposedly found himselfon the wrong side of the law. According to veteran press agent andraconteur Ian Dove, Huey appealed for help to his friend JerryWexler, then a top executive with Atlantic Records. Legend has itthat Jerry replied to Meaux as follows: "Sorry Huey, the answer isneaux."

PERFORMERS: Those crazy folks at Ralph Records are at it again,bringing you (us) the finest in music so, ah, unusual it probablycouldn't be found at any other label north of Tierra del Fuego. Ralphalready boasts a roster with the likes of the Residents, MX -80 Sound,Snakefinger and Fred Frith, but now they've added an act that wefearlessly predict will be their biggest yet-a prediction that is notbased on hearing any of this act's music, you understand, at leastnot yet. Renaldo and the Loaf, they're called, and with an album titlelike "Songs for Swinging Larvae" to go along with that handle, howcould they go wrong? Says Ralph's literature, "this is an album ofprimitive modernism, energetic, obnoxious noises, manic, high-pitchedvocals and sweet brilliance."

And then there's War Bride Records, a subsidiary of San Francisco'sSolid Smoke Records, who just shipped three albums in their ambi-tious initial release. The albums are by Roy Loney and the PhantomMovers, Holly Stanton and a compilation LP titled "Rising Stars ofSan Francisco," which features eleven Bay Area artists. Of the three,the Holly Stanton album stands out as the first work of a potentiallyinteresting artist and includes an oddball re -working of the Los Bravosclassic "Black Is Black." It's worth a listen. And finally, also from upnorth (a veritable hotbed of creativity these days) comes a singlerelease by an outfit called Rhyth-A-Rama, on their own Artiste Recordslabel. The songs, written or co -written by lead singer Pete Merkl, AKAPierre Marvel, are somewhat reminiscent of early Jonathan Richman,with a certain eccentric charm. We do kinda wish they'd tone downtheir claims to "laugh -a -minute lyrics" and "jump -to -it rhythm" buta little youthful enthusiasm is not necessarily such a band thing. KimFowley's made a living at it for the past couple of decades.

OTHERS: Tina Turner has just completed a tour of South Africa,Australia (she was joined onstage by Bette Midler in Sydney) andSoutheast Asia. She's now in the studio preparing an album withproducer Dennis Kirk . . . The first album by the two -man Aussie Bandis due on Real World Records in April, with Ken Caillat (known forhis work with Fleetwood Mac) producing. Half of the duo, DennisDunstan, is a former Austral -Asian karate champ who handled securityon the Mac's recent world tour, which we guess means that theAussie Band won't need any help clearing the stage when rabid fanslose control at their gigs; Dunstan was reunited with songwritingpartner Wayne Morrison, the other half of the band, when the Mactour got to England last year .. . Herbie Hancock's first dramatic rolewas last Saturday (28) on the television show "Concrete Cowboys."He played the owner of a factory manufacturing something called"The Burner," a hot-air balloon propellant-so at least you can saythe guy wasn't typecast. More roles are in the offing, we're told . . .

Louis Johnson's first production effort is the album "Passage," onwhich he performs with his wife Val and Richard Heath, percussionistfor the Brothers Johnson. The Brothers themselves are handling theirown production now as well, and are currently working at A&M'sstudios ... Shep Fields, a bandleader during the big band era of theThirties, died February 23 in L.A. at age 70. Fields made over 300records with his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra . . . The British groupMagazine's catalogue has been picked up by the I.R.S. label for theUnited States, including the live album that had belonged to VirginRecords.

TRIGGER HAPPY: When Word recording artists Roy Rogers andDale Evans recently celebrated their 50th anniversary in the biz withan appearance on NBC's "Barbara Mandrel! and the Mandrell SistersShow," political and show business celebrities came out of the wood-work to offer their congratulations. There was a telegram fromPresident and Nancy Reagan citing the Rogers' "clean, wholesomeentertainment," a message of "happy trails" from Governor Brown




Studio Singers: Unsung Heroes Behind the MusicBy BRIAN CHIN

NEW YORK-Valerie Simpson,Melissa Manchester, Barry Mani -

low and Bonnie Bramlett need nointroduction now, but they'vebeen stars for a longer time thanthe public suspects. Prior to theirsuccess as solo artists, they wereat work in the demanding profes-sion of studio singing, an under-ground of sorts where, paradox-ically, vocalists barely known tothe record buyer are amongthose most respected and calledupon by the makers of music.

Record World contacted sev-eral session singers at the top ofthe field: New Yorkers CissyHouston and Luther Vandross,Philadelphian Barbara Ingram,Los Angeles' Stephanie Spruilland Maxine Waters Willard andthe bi-coastal Patti Austin, all ofthem seasoned studio, commer-cial and/or touring vocalists, andfound that they make a series oftrade-offs with substantial finan-cial reward and career opportu-nity on one hand and, often,lack of recognition and creativefreedom on the other.

Luther Vandross credits CissyHouston with broadening the ar-tistic horizon of background sing-ing, which, he said "used to bean 'ooh, aah' reinforcement oforchestra and horn lines" untilHouston, whom Vandross fondlycalls "the grand diva of themall," revolutionized backups withthe Sweet Inspirations (EstelleBrown, Myrna Smith and SylviaShemwell). Houston, who hassung professionally since the ageof 13, appears on much of Atlan-tic Records' soul output from the'60s. Her work with Aretha Frank-lin and Wilson Pickett, amongothers, placed the backgroundvocalists almost at the same levelas the soloist, with elaborate call -and -response techniques ("rightout of the church," Vandrossnotes) and a more recognizablepersonal stamp than had ever be-fore been heard. In many of hersessions, Houston wryly recalls,she was contracting the vocalistsand arranging vocal parts, as well."but you get paid for it now." Ofher part in raising the creativepotential of her work, she re-flects, "I think it was there all thetime. Things do change; there hasto be a pioneer, and I guess I

was it."Houston's professional progeny

are not only technically adeptmusicians, but businesspeople aswell: east coast -based singerswork extensively in a lucrativejingle market (Barry Manilow'slive act includes a medley ofcommercials he's sung on or ar-ranged); west coast singers arecalled often for movie and televi-sion music. In these assignmentsas well as recording dates, keysingers may also be responsible

for contracting other vocals andarranging charts: while their levelof formal music training mayvary, their accumulated experi-ence qualifies them to workclosely with the producer-andthe most satisfying dates are in-variably those that solicit theirinput.

Patti Austin, among the mostwidely known sessioneers be-cause of her four CTI solo al-bums, had been a "girl singer"performing in hotel nightclubswhen Maraetha Stewart "apolo-getically" asked her to fill in for amissing vocalist at a pop session.Curious about the experience andattracted by "really nice money,"Austin accepted and eventuallyfell into regular work through

S ewart. Another vocalist/con-tractor, Tasha Thomas, intro-duced Austin to a number ofrock artists, further establishingher name. Versatility, at times ap-proaching the "musically schizo-phrenic," as she puts it, is thekey to building a solid reputationas a session vocalist: most canlist a polyglot list of pop, R&Band rock artists for whom they'vesung.

Maxine Waters Willard saysthat she was lucky enough tohave been in the right place whenthe recording industry boomed,establishing her reputation (alongwith her sister Julia Waters Till-man and brothers Oren and Lu-ther Waters, who have recordedtheir own work as the Waters)with sides as early as the Ron-nettes' "Be My Baby," and tourwork on the Vegas circuit withthe likes of Diahann Carroll, Ju-liet Prowse and Bill Medley. Be-cause of their musical training,producers who booked them earlyon found that "we read musicreally well and were really quick-and we got the feeling, too.They started telling other produc-ers about us, years before we'dever get (sleeve) credit ... It just

snowballed. We have no agent;we were just ready when the fieldreally opened up."

Once the ball starts rolling and',he stiff technical qualificationsare established, the industrioussinger often enjoys flexibility andfinancial returns that might beenvied by the solo superstar.Back-to-back sessions in one'sown home town may take as lit-tle as an hour apiece and resultin steady residual income, ac-cording to the rate of usage. Lu-ther Vandross observes, "Sure,Elton John and Rod Stewart arerich-but you know there areabout 20 guys you've never heardof who outgross them." (In whatVandross describes as a dispro-portionately female field, other

leading male singers includeZachary Sanders, Gordon Grody,Frank Floyd and James Gilstrap.)According to Patti Austin, a singerdoing three dates a week maywell achieve a six -figure incomefrom the quarterly residual pay-ments. Session income has beena "cushion" for Austin's solo pur-suits: her work made it possiblefor her to litigate her release fromCTI, make her new solo deal(with Qwest/WB) at leisure andsupport her own recent tour datein a "much classier" fashion thanan artist could normally afford.And while Vandross is "so ready(to tour and record solo) I couldscream," he admits that "I wouldhave to have sudden, catastrophicsuccess with Epic"-where he's inthe studio with Paul Riser, re-cording a solo album-to equalthe income generated by hiswork on a dauntingly long list ofcommercials, among them spotsfor NBC, Juicy Fruit gum and theU.S. Army, and his highly re-spected vocal arranging for BetteMidler, David Bowie and RobertaFlack.

In Vandross' case and BarbaraIngram's, a recognizable soundhas already resulted in a cultish

following among pop-R&B con-noisseurs. An extraordinarilygifted singer with a wide, warmrange, Vandross has been notedmore widely for his solo leads onBionic Boogie's "Hot Butterfly"and Change's "Searching" and"The Glow of Love" than for hisown mid -'70s work on Cotillion,leading the group Luther. BarbaraIngram, Evette Benton and CarlaBenson are nearly as crucial tothe definition of the Philadelphiasound as Thom Bell or Gambleand Huff: as the backing vocalgroup popularly known as theSweethearts of Sigma (that namecleverly coined by Tom Moulton,referring to Sigma Sound Studios),they've sung on several hundredof the records resulting from Phil-ly's creative boom, starting withJoe Simon in 1970 and includingevery major act in the city. In theindustry lull of the past couple ofyears, Ingram says that much ofthe slack has been taken up bywork booked by French and Ital-ian producers impressed by theirunique and versatile sound; thegroup has sung on numerous"ghost" albums under names shewas unable to disclose.

Does the background singerharbor a secret yearning to be inthe spotlight, then? The securityof being at home with her familyworking steadily, more than com-pensates for the lack of publicrenown for Stephanie Spruill,who is heard on hits like "BadGirls," "9 To 5" and the sound-tracks of "Xanadu," "Popeye,"and "The Blues Brothers." "I'malso an artist," Spruill says, re-ferring to her recent Arista albumwith her husband, "Saint andStephanie," "but backgroundsinging has been so good to meand taught me so much, I feellike I'm recognized, (at least bythose who) know what it took toput the music together. They hearsomething unique."

Grand diva Cissy Houston, onthe other hand, has had a fairlysteady output of solo materialthrough the years-including theoriginal "Midnight Train toGeorgia" and the disco/pop hit"Think It Over," produced byMichael Zager. She's currently inthe studio with Zager to writeand record her new album, butwill continue singing background:"I love to do it. It keeps you upon things and creatively alert."Patti Austin says she's pursuingsolo stardom "with a vengeance,"adding that "my greatest joy isperforming," while Evette Bentonand Carla Benson of the SigmaSweethearts are exploring workindividually in addition to theirlong standing collective withaspiring producer Barbara Ingram.

But if the maximum creative(Continued on page 45)



Video IAlorllVideo Visions

By SOPHIA MIDAS

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH: When RCA captured theattention of the media last week with the debut of their Selecta-Vision discplayer and software, Magnavox called our office to reportthat their discplayer, Magnavision, and advertising campaign, "Gour-met Video," were "alive and well and full of spunk."

While RCA has decided to introduce their product nationally,Magnavox has opted for a roll -out system, entering different mar-kets at different times. Vi Nelson, a spokesman for Magnavox ex-plained: "At the present time, Magnavox has reached 60 percentpenetration of the marketplace. We first introducd Magnavision inAtlanta in December 1978, then Seattle in May of '79, and finallyDallas in December of the same year. Throughout 1980, we entered29 more markets. Frankly, we look at this as a long-term projectand don't believe that we should further expand until there is moresoftware. DiscoVision appears to be in better control of the softwaresituation, in terms of production and distribution. Columbia Picturesand 20th Century -Fox will have their discs out in our format byMarch or April, and that's going to benefit us tremendously."

Discussing their advertising campaign, Nelson commented: "Welaunched 'Gourmet Video' at the beginning of the year, and it'sbasically a print campaign, although there is some TV and printadvertising in those regions which have access to the hardware.Our present campaign will be running through the first quarter ofthe year, and quite honestly, we're content to let RCA spend thedollars now. Print is the best way for us to go because we feel it'sthe best way to educate the consumer."

According to Nelson, Magnavox welcomes the entrance of Selecta-Vision into the marketplace. "At least we're not contending with aghost any longer," said Nelson, "and now we know what we're upagainst. I don't think SelectaVision is going to hurt our sales; on thecontrary, I think they will stimulate them. I also believe that wehave an edge over the RCA system: we have stereo capabilities,special effects and our discs will not wear out. You could smearpeanut butter over them and they would still work! Finally, becauseour system is essentially electronic, we won't have to deal withmechanical difficulties."

MERCHANDISING: VCI has redesigned the packages of four of itstitles, including: "El Cid," "55 Days At Peking," "Circus World," and"Fall of the Roman Empire." The company will also make availablemore comprehensive release sheets on all future films . . . NFL an-nounced the winners of its display contest, and Chuck Neiderhouse,owner of Video Corner in Pinellas Park, Florida, won the grand prizeof two tickets to the Super Bowl game, plus hotel accommodations. . . Steve Basloe, director of marketing for Columbia Pictures HomeEntertainment notes that his company has introduced several pro-motional aids for retailers and will continue to bring out items tosupport the trade. These aids will include pamphlets, counter cards,mobiles and window stickers . . . Strawberries' general manager NeilLevy reports that his chain is currently promoting WCI's music pro-grams by selling the videocassettes at $5 over cost. The promotion,which is taking place at all Strawberries stores, will climax in a grandwinner receiving a free VCR.

MOVERS: Richard Thorward has been appointed marketing vicepresident at RCA Records and will be joining Seth M. Willenson,VP of programming for RCA SelectaVision Videodiscs, in imple-menting specific music projects . . . George Doremus joins VideoManagement, Inc. as associate/senior consultant . . . Columbia Pic-ture Home Entertainment Division and Columbia Pictures Pay Tele-vision, which last month became part of Columbia Pictures opera-tions, will now function under the direct supervision of JonathanDolgen . . . Al Menozzi has advanced to national marketing man-ager, audio products, for Magnavox Consumer Electronics Company. . . Chuck Thagard has become VP, national sales for NostalgiaMerchant.

RCA Videodiscs(Continued from page 3)and Jack K. Sauter, RCA groupvice president. Tom Brokaw ofthe Today Show hosted the execu-tive panel discussion.

RCA executives noted that 100different videodiscs will be of-fered when the product is intro-duced to dealers on March 22and that the catalogue will beexpanding to 150 by September.These discs include recent hit andclassic movies, as well as musical,cultural, sports, educational andchildren's programming.

Videodiscs scheduled for re-lease in the drama category in-clude: "The Godfather," "LoveStory," "The Longest Yard," "TheAbsent Minded Professor," "Air-plane," "Ordinary People," "ThePink Panther," "Urban Cowboy,""Harold and Maude," "The Afri-can Queen," and "Goldfinger."

Music videodiscs which will bemade available include: "TheHarder They Come," "To Russia

. . . With Elton," "Gimme Shel-ter," "Blondie's "Eat to the Beat,""The Grateful Dead In Concert,"concerts by Paul Simon and Jean-Pierre Rampal, and segments of"Don Kirshner's Rock Concert."Musicals will include "HelloDolly," "Gigi," "Meet Me In St.Louis," "Singin' in the Rain,""Fiddler on the Roof," "Grease,""Saturday Night Fever," and"Lady Sings the Blues."

RCA's "Best of Television" discsinclude "The Fugitive," "LittleHouse on the Prairie," "SaturdayNight Live," and "The Autobiog-raphy of Miss Jane Pitman."

Opening up the satellite pres-entation, Schlosser called theSelectaVision discplayer a "newmedium for entertainment andeducation . . . marking the be-ginning of a new business." Theexecutive emphasized RCA's strat-egy of merchandising both soft-ware and hardware together, andcommented, "RCA long agoadopted the strategy that video-disc players and software go to-gether hand in glove. The con-sumer will expect to buy video-discs where he buys his player,and therefore, we will effectivelyput hardware and software to-gether at the retail level."

Extolling the videodiscs softwareas "ideal for mass consumer ap-peal" (the suggested list price is$14.98-$27.98, with most of thecatalogue priced at under $20.),Schlosser added: "To insure ourmutual success, we will not stop

with our opening catalogue. Wehave already entered into agree-ments with 70 program companiesto provide a continuing releaseof new programs to maintain in-terest and excitement."

In a speech which emphasizedthe magnitude of RCA's commit-ment to video, chairman Griffithssaid: "What you will see todayand in the next few months, asthe total program unfolds, repre-sents the culmination of some 17years of effort by literally thou-sands of RCA scientists, engineers,manufacturing, marketing andprogramming experts. And it rep-resents over 150 million dollarsin investment prior to introduc-tion - more than required inRCA's pioneering programs, ini-tially for black and white TV, andthen color TV."

Fulfilling these projections willrequire an enormous investmentby RCA, and marketing, accord-ing to J. K. Sauter, is of prime im-portance in achieving these goals."Research tells us," said Sauter,"that with videodisc player pricesunder $500, and with videodiscsbetween $20-25, approximatelyseven percent of the color homes,or about three million households,would be interested in buying thevideodisc within the first threeyears . . . This remarkable growthfinds strength in the basic make-up of who will buy the product.Unlike the videocassette thattends to appeal to a very narrowsegment of the population, prin-cipally young, upscale males, theRCA CED videodisc has broadappeal."

Sauter added that RCA will sup-port its dealers with "the most ex-tensive advertising, display andpromotional campaign" that thecompany has launched in its his-tory. The backbone of the cam-paign will be their television com-mercials, including 60 and 30 -sec-ond spots which will appear in asaturation schedule.

RCA gave its dealers a glimpseof what the consumer will see ontelevision by presenting one of itscommercials. The highly polishedspot featured a script which read:"We won't have to stand in line;we're spinning tonight; we'restaying in tonight." Print ads formagazines will introduce the basicidea of SelectaVision by stating:"Get ready. The next movie yousee may be on a record."

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Disco File(A weekly report on current and upcoming discotheque breakouts)

By BRIAN CHINlIl Three well-known R&B bands, none of them strangers to DJs, bowtheir new albums this week.

One Way has developed into one of the most reliable bandsaround, capable of putting across funk, ballads and anything in be-tween. Alicia Myers, their female lead and co -writer, has spun offher own album (notes next week) but retains her group presenceand, in general, there's little else changed for the solidly per-formed "Love Is . . . One Way" album (MCA). The immediateclub pick is "Push" (5:25), a rougher version of their funk rifling; itgrooves on a slow, chugging synthesizer, bass and chant mix. "OneWay is back again," the song begins, "push it in the groove." SofterR&B funk: "I Didn't Mean to Break Your Heart," done at a fairly quickpace; also note two album highlights, a jazzy, swaying "My Lady"(4:38) and a midtempo soul "Be Serious" (5:54), whose deep -voicedlead singer might be mistaken for Isaac Hayes. "Love Is . . . " isn'tparticularly new territory for One Way, but the group is still freshand energetic. Atlantic Starr's "Radiant", their third for A&M, teamsthem with Commodores producer James Carmichael, with results thatare exceedingly clean -sounding and precise. All of the uptempo cutscould have been spruced up substantially for dance impact - noneof them top five minutes -but they're strongly written and well -played, worthy of attention. Especially: "Under Pressure," whichcombines an uplifting message ("Turn it around; under pressure,you will shine") with unison guitar/horn riffing. "Think About That"is uptempo funk; we also liked "Mystery Girl," a really cute Solar -style pop -soul cut with a nervous, jerky beat. (Unfortunately, therhythm goes slack midway, a letdown even in a listening context.)T -Connection, the Bahamian band that scored repeatedly out ofMiami in the past three ybars, has signed with Capitol, with theirfifth album, "Everything is Cool," appearing this week. They'vemoved their recording site to New York and gotten with producerRay Chew as well as a number of top-flight east coast sessioneers.The sound, therefore, is very smooth indeed compared to their ownrecent work and that of other funk bands. "Groove City" (5:20) isa weighty, metal -monster riff ("If you wanna groove, come alongwith me"); that cut and an easy -flowing Caribbean -inflected "Spin-nin'" (4:30) are the best club choices. Another couple of cuts, "GiveMe Your Love" and "We've Got a Good Thing," both short at four -and -change, are good R&B material; again, more might have beendone with them to make them really score dance -wise. But that is

symptomatic of the current move toward more classic -style R&Bwork and one can't stand in the way of change, should there be aprogressive movement hiding behind the "back -to -basics" trend.

There will certainly be great excitement over the new SmokeyRobinson album, "Being With You" (Tamla) from all sorts of fans;it's Smokey's graceful completion of his move into A/C, producedEby George Tobin. The album's tone is just a tiny bit more laid-backthan last year's "Warm Thoughts" -to make up for it, perhaps, isa long, uptempo cut already tipped to us out of Philly, "Can't FightLove" (5:57). That tracks owes a debt, undeniably, to the very popu-lar Jacksons groove, but finally comes into its own in an offbeathorn break. In its own way, "Can't Fight Love" is as idiosyncraticas the impressions of disco that can be heard on the mid -70's "AQuiet Storm" and "Family Robinson" albums. Smokey remains atrue musical treasure: just listen to "You Are Forever" and sigh ...

MEDIA NOTES: We were delighted with the appearance of Blon-die's Deborah Harry on "Saturday Night Live" a couple of weeks ago.Her guests were the Funky Four Plus One More, Bronx rappers whoperformed "That's the Joint" -the first rap, as was noted in last week'sBlack Music Report, over the national airwaves. Even better wasHarry's own version of "Love T.K.O.," very attractively done indeed, toa velvety soft -reggae beat.

We had to smile (not too broadly, though) at a recent episode of"WKRP in Cincinnati" in which the Howard Hesseman character isdismayed to find that he has committed himself mistakenly to hosta disco dance television program. To cover himself from an obviousimage problem, he creates an obnoxiously glittery and unctuous new

persona who turns out to be wildly popular and, increasingly, threatensto take over his entire personality. The situation is resolved when, inthe middle of a taping, he stops the music (Alicia Bridges' "I Love theNightlife" and Chic's "Le Freak" were featured -inexcusably out ofdate) and leaves them dancing to Little Richard's "Ready Teddy." Welike the show, as a rule, but will offer just a couple of observations:if disco is dead, as the Hesseman character found occasion to say, itcertainly was foolish of the network to schedule an hour-long episodeinvolving disco during a ratings "sweeps" period. And the concludingshot of the dance floor only confirms the flexibility of disco fans as agroup. Little Richard's work, no matter how glorified -deservedly -by all of us, was, after all, nothing other than the contemporary blackmusic of the day. We believe the same pop -culture genius to be pres-ent in today's R&B and disco. All too often, we think, the keepers of"pure" music are advancing nostalgia at the expense of development.We do need to recall the sources of our music, but as reference points,not models.

Wonderful Wanda Walden

New York -based vocalist Wanda Walden has signed an exclusive recording agreementwith Elektra/Asylum Records. The young singer's first LP, "Searchin' For Love," wasproduced at the Automatt in San Francisco by Narada Michael Walden, her brother-in-law, who has recorded several albums for Atlantic and has produced recent hitLPs by Stacy Lattisaw and Sister Sledge. "Searchin' For Love" is set for release inApril, while the title track, featuring a duet by Wanda and Narada Michael, has justbeen released. Pictured after the agreement was signed are, from left: Oscar Fields,E/A's vice president/special markets; Walden; Vic Faraci, vice president/director ofmarketing; and Joe Smith, chairman of the board.

©Disco File Top 40MARCH 7, 1981

1. RAPTUREBLONDIE/Chrysalis (LP cut) CHE 1290

2. BREAKING AND ENTERINGDEE DEE SHARP GAMBLE/Phila. Intl.

(12"*) JZ 36370 (CBS)

3. HILLS OF KATMANDU/WISHBONETANTRA/Importe/12 (LP cuts) MP 310

4. CAN YOU HANDLE ITSHARON REDD/Prelude (LP cut) PRL

12181

5. IT'S A LOVE THINGWHISPERS/Solar (I2"*) BZL1 3578 (RCA)

6. YOU'RE TOO LATEFANTASY/Pavillion (12") 4Z8 6408 (CBS)

7. ALL AMERICAN GIRLSSISTER SLEDGE/Cotillion (12"*) 46007

(AtI)8. YOUR LOVE

LIME/Prism (12") PDS 4099. I HEAR MUSIC IN THE STREET

UNLIMITED TOUCH/Prelude (12")PRLD 605

10. LET'S DO ITCONVERTION/Sam (12") S 12336

11. FANCY DANCERTWENNYNINE FEATURING LENNY

WHITE/Elektra (12"*) 6E 30412. FULL OF FIRE/MAKE THAT MOVE

SHALAMAR/Solar (12"*) BZL1 3577(RCA)

13. LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON MEABBA/Atlantic (LP cut) SD 16023

14. LOOK UP/NEVER GONNA GIVE YOUUP

PATRICE RUSHEN/Elektra (12"*) 6E 30215. BON BON VIE (GIMME THE GOOD

LIFE)/CANDIDATE FOR LOVET.S. MONK/Mirage (12"*/LP cut) WTG

19121 (AM16. SET ME FREE

THREE DEGREES/Ariola (LP cut) OL1501 (Arista)

17. LOVE (IS GONNA BE ON YOUR SIDE)FIREFLY/Emergency (12") EMDS 6515

18. SOUL/HEAVEN ABOVE MEFRANKIE VALLI/MCA (LP cuts) 5134

19. CELEBRATION/LOVE FESTIVALKOOL & THE GANG/De-Lite (12"*/LP

cut) DSR 9518 (PolyGram)

20. GET TOUGHKLEEER/Atlantic (LP cut) SD 19288

21. THIGHS HIGH (GRIP YOUR HIPS ANDMOVE)

TOM BROWNE/Arista/GRP (12"*) 550322. WON'T YOU LET ME BE THE ONE

MICHAEL McGLOIRY/Airwave (12")AW12 94964

23. BURN RUBBERGAP BAND/Mercury (12"*) SRM 1 4003

(PolyGram)24. PARTYUP/HEAD/DIRTY MIND

PRINCE/Warner Bros. (12"*) BSK 347825. WIND ME UP

R. .1's LATEST ARRIVAL/Buddah (12")DSC 144

26. GIVE ME A BREAK/REMEMBERVIVIEN VEE/Launch (12") NC 1003

27. FEEL ITREVELATION/Handshake (12"*),IW

3696328. GIVE ME YOUR LOVE

SYLVIA STRIPLIN/Uno Melodic (12")UMD 7001

29. FANTASTIC VOYAGELAKESIDE/Solar (12"*) BXL1 3720 (RCA)

30. DANCESILVER PLATINUM/Spector Intl. (12"*)

00009 (Capitol)31. DON'T STOP THE MUSIC

YARBROUGH & PEOPLES/Mercury(12"*) SRM 1 3834 (PolyGram)

32. GOT THE TIMEHOLT '45/Sutra (12") SUD 002

33. VOICES INSIDE MY HEADPOLICE/A&M (12") SP 4831

34. HEARTBREAK HOTEL/CAN YOU FEELIT

JACKSONS/Epic (12"*/LP cut) FE 3642435. WALKING ON THIN ICE

YOKO ONO/Geffen (12"*) 49683 (WB)36. BODY MUSIC

STRIKERS/Prelude (12") PRLD 60837. CHILL-OUTI

FREE EXPRESSION/Vanguard (12")SPV 39

38. DANCE TO THE FUNKY GROOVEMAURICE STARR/RCA (12") JD 12162

39. IT'S A WAR/I'M READYKANO/Emergency (12"*) EMLP 7505

40. BETCHA CAN'T LOVE JUST ONEFINAL EDITION/VAP (12") 19811

(* 12" non-commercia , 12" discountinued)



RCA Hot on Singles Chart(Continued from page 3)country and classical music), andI'm very pleased about the rela-tionship between the heads ofeach of the centers and theircounterparts where crossovermust take place," Craigo told RWin an exclusive interview.

"It's the cooperation of thepop guys working with the coun-try and black music people that'sworking so well . . . There is a

high intensity of cooperationupon each release and upon themusic in the A&R and marketingcenter, and then when the cross-over breakthrough takes place,there is a very close working re-lationship with those people whohave to effect the crossover."

Crossover is clearly a key toRCA's current chart success. DollyParton's title song from the hitmovie "9 To 5," which 'has 'beennominated for an Oscar, is spend-ing its third successive week atopthe Singles Chart. The song, Par -ton's first number -one pop hit,recently enjoyed a two-week stayat the top of the Country SinglesChart as well.

Ronnie Milsap's "SmokyMountain Rain" has Ibulleted to#19 on the Singles Chart a fulltwo months after reaching num-ber one on the Country SinglesChart. (His "Greatest Hits" pack-age has risen to #49 on the Al-bum Chart this week.)

"Both artists have always soldexceedingly well to their countryfans," 'Craigo said. "With Dolly,because of the great success ofthe movie and top 40's accept-ance of the record, we now havea much broader and more excit-ing audience than we've had be-fore. And I think Ronnie Milsap'ssuccess is particularly impressive,because he hasn't had a cross-over record in some time.

"But the crossover is comingfrom the black area as well. I'mtold that the Whispers' single('It's a Love Thing') has brokenacross the board at top 40 radio.We're working very strong tocross Lakeside over. There's noquestion in my mind that DickGriffey (president of RCA -distrib-uted Solar Records, whose rosterincludes the Whispers and Lake-side) is making black recordsthat are going to sell to a popaudience."

Lakeside's "Fantastic Voyage"is currently #4 on the Black Ori-ented Singles Chart, where it hadearlier been number one. TheWhispers' single is #3 bullet onthe BOS Chart and #55 bullet onthe Singles Chart. Both groups'albums are in the top five of theBlack Oriented Album Chart andthe top forty of the Album Chart.

Besides "9 To 5" and "SmokyMountain Rain," the bulleted RCAsingles in the top 20 are Daryl

Hall and John Oates' "Kiss on MyList," which jumped seven spotsto #16, and Don McLean's "Cry-ing," on the RCA -distributedMillennium label, which has en-tered the top ten. The Hall andOates single is the third fromtheir LP "Voices" and has reju-venated sales of the album, whichjumped 17 places this week. Mc-Lean's album "Chain Lightning"stands at #71 bullet.

According to Craigo, McLean's"tremendous recognition factor"was an essential element in thesuccess of "Crying." "Don's'American Pie' has got to be oneof the most programmed oldiesthat radio has ever had," he said."His name and his voice are veryfamiliar to the listening audience.

"The 'performance is so greatand so well done that radio addedthe record, and once they addedit, Don McLean's recognition fac-tor took over almost immedi-ately."

Another Millennium act, Frankeand the Knockouts, described 'byCraigo as a priority for RCA inthe rock area, has entered thechart at #78 bullet with its debutsingle, "Sweetheart."

The current success of acts onMillennium and Solar serves tounderscore Craigo's observationthat RCA's associated labels(which also include 20th Century -Fox and Salsoul) are "sources oftremendous A&R activity . . .

They play a very important rolein the overall activity of RCA, atradio and with our customers. It'sa source of talent that gives us avery heavy amount of direct bill-ing."

Craigo, a former ColumbiaRecords senior vice president,took over as RCA's division vicepresident-U.S.A. and Canada inearly January, following a stint ashead of RCA's British company.He said that his first few monthson the job were shaping up as"one of the best quarters thatRCA has had," which he attrib-uted less to his presence then to"the momentum that was set upin the fourth quarter of 1980." Hepraised the "extensive experi-ence" and "enthusiasm of the la-bels' staff.

"We're a hot record companyright now," Craigo said. "I thinkour success on the charts is a sig-nal to artists and to managers andto the entertainment communitythat RCA is very much a part ofthe record industry. We have thesupport from corporate head-quarters; they want to see thiscompany become very successfuland very aggresive in the recordbusiness.

"RCA has had a great historyof successes in the past, andthere's no reason why it can'tcontinue on."

Cover Story:Steve Winwood's Extraordinary Career Managers and record companyexecutives can't seem to sayenough about the importance oftiming in building careers, but forsome artists, the rules just don'tseem to apply. Steve Winwood isone of those extraordinary cases.

After three years without issuinga recording under his own name,Winwood resurfaced with his sec-ond solo album, "Arc of a Diver"(Island), and soon became one of1981's first success stories. The LPis now number 29 with a bullet onthe Record World Album Chart,while the first single from the LP,"While You See A Chance," hasascended to 30 with a bullet onthe RW Singles Chart as a desig-nated Powerhouse Pick. A careerthat was dormant two monthsago has suddenly blossomed.

Then again, anyone familiarwith popular music knows thatSteve Winwood has always beenextraordinary. As a young musicstudent in Birmingham, England,Winwood had already beentrained in arranging and theorywhen his older brother, Muff(now a record producer), first in-troduced him to American rhythmand blues records. Winwood be-came a fanatic, and began pur-suing his new interest as a key-boardist and vocalist in additionto taking up the guitar.

He joined the Spencer DavisGroup, which had its first hit with"I Can't Stand It" in 1964, whenhe was only 16 years old. TheDavis Group's subsequent inter-national hits, "Gimme SomeLovin'" and "I'm A Man," wereboth co -written by Winwood, whoalso lent them his trademarksurging organ riffs and upper -range soul vocal inflections.

In 1967, Winwood left Davisand joined Dave Mason, JimCapaldi and Chris Wood to formTraffic, the innovative groupwhose albums became staples ofthe new "progressive" album ra-dio stations that were just devel-oping on the FM band. Trafficsongs like "Dear Mr. Fantasy" arerock classics to this day.

At the end of the decade, Trafficdisbanded and Winwood becameinvolved with Eric Clapton andGinger Baker, who had recentlyleft Cream, in the short-livedphenomenon known as BlindFaith. The group recorded onealbum and disbanded under thepressures of a growing rock 'n'roll monster known as "super -stardom."

Winwood began recordingwhat was to be a solo album in1970, and was joined by Woodand Capaldi, who transformed theproject into Traffic's comebackLP, "John Barleycorn Must Die."The group continued, with manypersonnel changes, recording al-bums like "The Low Spark OfHigh -Heeled Boys" before break-ing up for once and for all with"When The Eagle Flies" in 1974.

He appeared on several diversesubsequent projects, includingthe Michael Shrieve/Stomu Yama-shta LP titled "Go," and alsoplayed guitar and recorded withthe legendary salsa group theFania All -Stars. He released hisfirst, self -titled solo LP in 1977.

While that album receivedsome critical acclaim, it nevercame close to the commercialsuccess already achieved by "Arcof a Diver," an album recordedby Winwood in his home studio,where he played all the instru-ments and did all vocals himself,with songs written with the helpof lyricists like Will Jennings andformer Bonzo Dog Band leaderVivian Stanshall. By simply pro-ceeding at his own pace, Win -wood has found his way to theupper reaches of the charts.

ABKCO Profits Up NEW YORK-ABKCO Indus-tries, Inc. has reported revenuesof $2,175,691 and a profit of$62,251, or five cents per share,for the quarter ending December31, 1980. For the correspondingperiod in 1979, the company re-ported revenues of $3,283,270,and a profit of $35,865, or threecents per share.

Lunch with Nugent

Epic Records recently introduced Ted Nugent's new album "Intensities In 10 Cities"at a luncheon given in his honor. The album, recorded live, is scheduled for release inMarch. Pictured at the luncheon are, from left: (top) Bob Feineigle, director of nationalalbum promotion, Epic/Portrait/CBS Associated Labels; Dan Beck, director, east coastmereNandising, E/P/A; Steve Leber, president, Leber -Krebs; Nugent; Don Dempsey,senior VP and general manager, Epic/Portrait/CBS Associated Labels; David Krebs,president, Leber -Krebs; and Gregg Geller, vice president, national A&R, Epic Records.



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7 21

101 103 IT'S MY JOB JIMMY BUFFETT/MCA 51061 (I've Got The Music, ASCAP)102 113 HOLD ON BADFINGER/Radio 3793 (At)) (Dung, ASCAP)103 106 LET ME GO RINGS/MCA 51069 (Face Down, ASCAP)104 104 YOU'RE TOO LATE FANTASY/Pavillion 6 6407 (CBS) (Rightsong/Pavillion/

Listi, BMI)105 101 DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT LOVE IS TOUCH/Atco 7311 (Thames, ASCAP)106 - HOLD ON LOOSELY 38 SPECIAL/A&M 2316 (Rocknocker/WB/Easy

Action, ASCAP)107 109 GAMES PHOEBE SNOW/Mirage 3800 (At)) (Jasper Jeeters, BMI/Black

Platinum/Analog, ASCAP)108 108 GENERALS AND MAJORS XTC/Virgin/RSO 300 (Nymph/Unichappe(l, BMI)109 110 BLACKJACK RUPERT HOLMES/MCA 51045 (WB/The Holmes Line, ASCAP)

110 112 OUTSIDE AMBROSIA/Warner Bros. 49654 (Rubicon, BMI/Genevieve,ASCAP)

111 1 1 I LET'S DO IT CONVERTION/Sam 81 5017 (Calebur Composition/Leeds/P.A.P./Mideb, ASCAP)

112 102 LONG TIME LOVIN' YOU McGUFFEY LANE/Atco 7319 (McGuffey Lane, BMI)113 1 1 4 8TH WONDER SUGARHILL GANG/Sugarhill 753 (Commodores/Jobete, BMI)114 115 FANCY DANCER LENNY WHITE/Elektra 47087 (Mchoma, BMI/

Cherubim, ASCAP)115 116 PROUD JOE CHEMAY BAND/Unicorn 3 95001 (RCA) (Publisher not listed)116 118 CAFE AMORE SPYRO GYRA/MCA 51035 (Harlem/Crosseyed, BMI)117 117 BETCHA CAN'T LOVE JUST ONE FINAL EDITION/VAP 19813 (Virgin

Archer/Staffoly, ASCAP)118 - RIGHT AWAY HAWKS/Columbia 11 60500 (Junior Wild, ASCAP)119 120 WHERE DID THE TIME GO? POINTER SISTERS/Planet 41925 (AtI)

(Unichappell/Begonia Melodies/Braintree, BMI/New Hidden Valley/Porcheste, ASCAP)

120 126 WHERE'S YOUR ANGEL LANI HALL/A&M 2305 (Irving/Baby Shoes/Poppy's, BMI)

121 - FOR YOU MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND/Warner Bros. 49678 (BruceSpringsteen/Laurel Canyon, ASCAP)

122 122 CAREER GIRL CARRIE LUCAS/Solar 12143 (RCA) (Spectrum VII/Carrific/My Kinda, ASCAP)

123 - LIMELIGHT RUSH/Mercury 76095 (Core, ASCAP)124 124 BIRTHDAY PARTY RHYME GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE/

Sugarhill 759 (Sugarhill, BMI)125 125 I'M READY KANO/Emergency 4504 (Emergency/Farfalla, ASCAP)126 127 REMEMBER WHEN THE MUSIC HARRY CHAPIN/Boardwalk 8 5705

(Chapin, ASCAP)127 131 PERFECT FIT JERRY KNIGHT/A&M 2304 (Almo/Crimsco, ASCAP)128 132 HERE'S TO YOU SKYY/Salsoul 2132 (RCA) (One to One, ASCAP)129 - THE RAMBLER MOLLY HATCHET/Epic 50965 (Mister Sunshine, BMI)130 134 MAGIC MAN ROBERT WINTERS & FALL/ Buddah 624 (Arista) (Alma/Ray

Jay/Similar/Lucky Break, ASCAP/Irving, BMI)

131 - YOU DON'T OWN ME JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS/Boardwalk85706 (Merioda, BMI)

132 - I HAVE THE SKILL SHERBS/Atco 7325 (Sherbert, ASCAP)133 133 WHAT'S IN A KISS GILBERT O'SULLIVAN/Epic 19 50967 (Pending)134 - WHO YOU FOOLIN' DIANA CANOVA/20th Century Fox 2486 (RCA)

(20th Century/Finally Vinyl, ASCAP)135 135 LOVE CALLING ZINGARA/Wheel 5001 (Platinum Ear, BMI(136 136 TAKE IT EASY CRYSTAL GAYLE/Columbia 11 11436 (Duchess/MCA/BMI)137 119 CAN YOU HANDLE IT SHARON REDD/Prelude 8024 (Trumar/Diamond

in the Rough, BMI)138 105 EUGENE CRAZY JOE AND THE VARIABLE SPEED BAND/Casablanca 2298

(Polygram) (Madam Palm, BMI)139 140 EVERYTHING IS COOL T-CONNECTION/Capitol 4968 (I-Conn./Irving, BMI)140 141 CHEATIN' HIS HEART OUT AGAIN JOHN FARRAR/Columbia 11 1 1429

(John Farrar, BMI)141 145 HAVE YOU SEEN HER CHI-LITES/20th Century Fox/Chi-Sound 2481

(RCA) (Six Continents, BMI)142 138 JANUARY, FEBRUARY BARBARA DICKSON/Columbia 1 11225 (ATV, BMI)143 121 THEME FROM RAGING BULL JOEL DIAMOND/Motown 1504 (United

Artists, ASCAP)144 146 HOOKED ON MUSIC MAC DAVIS/Casablanca 2327 (PolyGram)

(Songpainter, BMI)145 130 I HEAR MUSIC IN THE STREETS UNLIMITED TOUCH/Prelude 8023

(Unlimited Touch/Phylmar, ASCAP)146 143 ALL MY LOVE L.A.X./Prelude 8019 (O'Lyric/Evan Paul/Libraphone, BMI)147 144 WAITING FOR A FRIEND ROGER DALTREY/Polydor 2153 (PolyGram)

(Twickenham Tunes)148 128 LOVE ON THE AIRWAVES NIGHT/Planet 47921 )E/A) (No Sheet, ASCAP)149 137 LET'S PICK IT UP (WHERE WE LEFT IT OFF) CHRIS MONTAN/20th Century

Fox 2480 (RCA) (Special/Old Sock, ASCAP/Evan Paul/Libraphone, BMI)150 150 COW PATTI JIM STAFFORD/Warner Bros. 49611 (Senor/Sibie, ASCAP)

24

&%1a/esAH! LEAH Avsec (Bema Sweet City,

Alphabetical

Producer,

Listing

Publisher, LicenseeKEEP ON LOVING YOU Cronin-Richrath-

ASCAP) 36 Beamish (Fate, ASCAP) 2

AIN'T EVEN DONE WITH THE NIGHT KEEP THIS TRAIN A ROLLIN' TemplemanCropper (H.G., ASCAP) 49 (Taurpian Tunes/Burce, ASCAP) 84

A LITTLE IN LOVE Tarney (ATV, BMI) 11 KISS ON MY LIST Hall -Oates (Hot-Cha/SixA WOMAN NEEDS LOVE (JUST LIKE YOU Continents/Fust Buzza, BMI) 16

DO) Parker, Jr. (Raydiola, ASCAP) 89 LADY Richie (Brockman, ASCAP) 57

ALL AMERICAN GIRLS Walden (Walden/ LIPSTICK Chapman (Chinnichap, BMI) 70Gratitude Sky, ASCAP/Irving/Kejoc,BMI) 73

LIVING IN A FANTASY Tarney (Rare Blue,ASCAP/ATV, BMI) 26

AND LOVE GOES ON White (Almo/ LOVE OVER AND OVER AGAIN DeBarge-Verdansel/Cherubim, ASCAP/Foster Williams (Jobete, ASCAP) 99Frees, BMI) 61 LOVE ON THE ROCKS Gaudio (Stone-

ANGEL OF THE MORNING Landis bridge/EMA-Suisse, ASCAP) 42(Blackwood, BMI) 40 LOVE T.K.O. Wansel-Biggs-Womack

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST Group (Assorted, BMI) 93(Queen/Beechwood, BMI) 34 LOVERS AFTER ALL Buckingham

BACK IN BLACK Lange (J. Albert Ltd./Margo, BMI) 54

(Rumanian Pickleworks, BMI/Leon Ware,ASCAP) 86

BEING WITH YOU Tobin (Bertam, ASCAP) 48 MISS SUN Schnee (Hudman, ASCAP) . 59BON BON VIE (GIMME THE GOOD LIFE) MISTER SANDMAN Ahern (Edwin H.

Linzer (Unichappell/Featherbed/Larball, Morris/MPL, ASCAP) 74BMI) 80 MORE THAN I CAN SAY Tarney (Warner -

BOOGIE BODY LAND Jones (Barkays/ Tamerlane, BMI) 56Warner -Tamerlane)

BURN RUBBER Simmons (Total Experience,BMI)

98

60

MORNING TRAIN (NINE TO FIVE) Neil(Unichappell, BMI) 29

CELEBRATION Deodato (Delightful/FreshStar, BMI)

CRYING Butler (Acuff Rose, BMI)DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA Group -Gary

(Virgin/Chappell, ASCAP)

5

10

62

9 TO 5 Perry (Velvet Apple/Fox Fanfare,BMI)

PASSION Harry The Hook (Riva/WB,ASCAP)

PRECIOUS TO ME Podolor (Hearmore/OnThe Boardwalk, BMI)

1

20

38DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME Group

(Virgin/Chappell, ASCAP) 33RAPTURE Chapman (Rare Blue/Monster

Island, ASCAP) 7DON'T STOP THE MUSIC Simmons -Ellis

(Total X, EMI) 22 SAME OLDE LANG SYNE Fogelberg -Lewis

DREAMER Howe (Rockslam/Bug, BMI) 96 (Hickory Grove/April, ASCAP) 12

EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD Porter-Maslin (Pendulum/Unichappell, BMI) 23

FADE AWAY Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen,ASCAP) 27

FANTASTIC VOYAGE Group (SpectrumVII/Circle L, ASCAP) 45

SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD Szymczyk (Irving,BMI)

SHINE ON Martin (Almo/McRouscod,ASCAP/Irving/Buchanan/Kerr, BMI)

SMOKY MOUNTAIN RAIN Collins(Pi -Gem, BMI)

SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN' Penny (Chiplin/

46

94

19

FIREFLIES Reynolds (Duchess/MCA, Tri-Chappell) 37FLASH'S THEME AKA FLASH May -Mack STAYING WITH IT Lehning (ATV/

(Queen/Wide/Beechwood, BMI) 63 Braintree/Snow, BMI) 50FULL OF FIRE Sylvers (Spectrum VII/ SUDDENLY Farrar (John Farrar, BMI) 81

My Kinda, ASCAP) 82 SUKIYAKI Duke (Beechwood, BMI) 88GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Parsons

(Woolfsongs/Careers/Irving, BMI) 13SWEETHEART Verroca (Bigteeth, BMI/

Brightsmile, ASCAP) 78GUITAR MAN Jarvis (Vector, BMI) 41 TELL IT LIKE IT IS Group (Conrad/Olrap,GIVING IT UP FOR YOUR LOVE Beckett BMI) 87

(Blackwood/Urge, BMI) 21 THE BEST OF TIMES Group (Stygian/Almo,(GHOST) RIDERS IN THE SKY Lyons ASCAP) 6

(Edwin H. Morris Co., ASCAP) 52 THE PARTY'S OVER (HOPELESSLY INGUILTY Gibb-Galuten-Richardson

(Stigwood/Unichappell, BMI) 64LOVE) Elson (Weed High Nightmare,BMI) 77

HEARTBREAK HOTEL Group (Mijac, BMI) 35 THE TIDE IS HIGH Chapman (Gemrod,HEARTS ON FIRE Garay (Nebraska/United BMI) 9

Artists/Glasco, ASCAP) 24 THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL Anderson-HE CAN'T LOVE YOU Group (Kejra/Bema, Ulvaeus (Artwork, ASCAP) 17

ASCAP) 85 THEME FROM THE DUKES OF HAZZARDHELLO AGAIN (LOVE THEME FROM THE (GOOD OL' BOYS) Albright (Warner-

JAZZ SINGER) Gaudio (Stonebridge, Tamerlane/Rich Way, BMI) 69ASCAP) 8 THIGHS HIGH (GRIP YOUR HIPS AND

HEY NINETEEN Katz (Zeon/Free Junket,ASCAP) 47

MOVE) Grusen-Rosen (Browne, RoaringFork, BMI) 97

HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT Olsen TIME IS TIME Gibb-Galuten-RichardsonATV, BMI) 18 (Stigwood/Unichappell, BMI) 68

HOW 'BOUT US Graham (Dana Walden,(licensee not listed) 53

TOGETHER Sales (Razor Sharp/DoubleDiamond, BMI) 28

HUNGRY HEART Springsteen-Landau-Van TOO TIGHT Group (Val -le -Joe, BMI) 39Zandt (Bruce Springsteen, ASCAP) 58 TREAT ME RIGHT Olsen (Blackwood/

I AIN'T GONNA STAND FOR IT Wonder White Dog, BMI) 14

(Jobete/Black Bull, ASCAP) 31 TURN ME LOOSE Fairbairn (Blackwood/I BELIEVE IN YOU Williams-Fundis (Roger Dean of Music, BMI) 67

Cook/Cook House, BMI)I CAN'T STAND IT Dowd (Stigwood/

Unichappell, BMI)

90

44

UNITED TOGETHER Jackson (Jays Enter-prises/Baby Love/Chappell/Philvin Intl.,ASCAP) 92

I DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOUR NAMEKlein (Seventh Son, ASCAP) 95

WASN'T THAT A PARTY Richardson(United Artists, ASCAP) 66

I JUST LOVE THE MAN Gamble -Huff(Assorted, BMI) 75

WATCHING YOU Douglas -Washington(Steve Song/Cotillion, BMI) 72

I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT Malloy (Deb WHAT KIND OF FOOL Gibb-Galuten-Dave/Briarpatch, BMI) 3 Richardson (Stigwood/Unichappell, BMI) 15

I LOVE YOU Ryan (C.B.B., ASCAP) 76 WHILE YOU SEE A CHANCE WinwoodI MADE IT THROUGH THE RAIN Manilow-

Dante (Unichappell, BMI) 51(Island/Irving/Blue Sky/Rider Songs,BMI) 30

IT'S A LOVE THING Group-Griffey-Sylvers WHIP IT Margouleff-Group (Devo/Nymph/(Spectrum VII/My Kinda, ASCAP) 55 Unichappell, BMI) 83

IT'S MY TURN Masser (Colgems-EMI/Prince St., ASCAP/Unichappell/BegoniaMelodies, BMI) 91

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLIN'Moroder-Bellotte (First Night/SUIZA) 65

(JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER Lennon - WHO'S MAKING LOVE Tischler-ShafferOno -Douglas (Lenono, BMI) 25 (East Memphis, BMI) 100

JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME Goodwyn -Stone (Northern Goody Two -Tunes Ltd.,

WOMAN Lennon -Ono -Douglas (Lenono,BMI) 4

ASCAP-CAPAC) 43 YESTERDAY ONCE MORE/NOTHINGJUST THE TWO OF US Washington, Jr - REMAINS THE SAME Zager (Alma/

MacDonald (Antisia, ASCAP) 32 Hammer & Nails, ASCAP/Sumac, BMI).. 71



MARCH 7, 1981

TIM ARTIST, Label Number, (Distributing Label)MAR. Fn.

7 23

1 1 9 TO 5DOLLY PARTONRCA 12133(3rd Week)

Record Wodd

WKS. ONOMIT

12

4 KEEP ON LOVING YOU REO SPEEDWAGON/Epic 1950953 12

3 3 I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT EDDIE RABBITT/Elektra 47066 15

5 WOMAN JOHN LENNON/Geffen 49644 (WB) 8

5 2 CELEBRATION KOOL & THE GANG/De-Lite 807 (PolyGram) 18

7 THE BEST OF TIMES STYX/A&M 2300 7

10 RAPTURE BLONDIE/Chrysalis 2485 6

8 HELLO AGAIN (LOVE THEME FROM THE JAZZ SINGER)NEIL DIAMOND/Capitol 4960 6

9 6 THE TIDE IS HIGH BLONDIE/Chrysalis 2465 15

12 CRYING DON McLEAN/Millennium 11799 (RCA) 711 11 A LITTLE IN LOVE CLIFF RICHARD/EMI-America 8068 10

12 9 SAME OLDE LANG SYNE DAN FOGELBERG/Full Moon/Epic19 50961 11

13 13 GAMES PEOPLE PLAY ALAN PARSONS PROJECT/Arista0573 12

15 TREAT ME RIGHT PAT BENATAR/Chrysalis 2487 8

19 WHAT KIND OF FOOL BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB/Columbia 11 11430 6

23 KISS ON MY LIST DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES/RCA 12142 7

20 THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL ABBA/Atrantic 3776 12

18 18 HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT PAT BENATAR/Chrysalis2464 21

22 SMOKY MOUNTAIN RAIN RONNIE MILSAP/RCA 12084 12

20 14 PASSION ROD STEWART/Warner Bros. 49617 14

21 17 GIVING IT UP FOR YOUR LOVE DELBERT McCLINTON/Capitol/MSS 4948 12

25 DON'T STOP THE MUSIC YARBROUGH & PEOPLES/Mercury76085 (PolyGram) 7

23 21 EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD AIR SUPPLY/Arista 0564 18

ET3 27 HEARTS ON FIRE RANDY MEISNER/Epic 19 50964 7

25 16 (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER JOHN LENNON/Geffen49604 (WB) 17

133 30 LIVING IN A FANTASY LEO SAYER/Warner Bros. 49657 7

31 FADE AWAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Columbi^ 11 11431 5

28 28 TOGETHER TIERRA/Boardwalk 8 5702 16

33 MORNING TRAIN (NINE TO FIVE) SHEENA EASTON/EMI-America 8071 4

30 35 WHILE YOU SEE A CHANCE STEVE WINWOOD/Island49656 (WB) 5

31 24 I AIN'T GONNA STAND FOR IT STEVIE WONDER/Tamla54320 (Motown) 11

EE1 43 JUST THE TWO OF US GROVER WASHINGTON, JR./Elektra47103 4

41 DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME POLICE/A&M 2301 5

34 26 ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST QUEEN/Elektra 47031 28

35 29 HEARTBREAK HOTEL JACKSONS/Epic 19 50959 12

40 AH! LEAH DONNIE IRIS/MCA 51205 11

48 SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN' TERRI GIBBS/MCA 41309 6

45 PRECIOUS TO ME PHIL SEYMOUR/Boardwalk 8 5703 6

39 34 TOO TIGHT CON FUNK SHUN/Mercury 76089 (PolyGram) 9

40 52 ANGEL OF THE MORNING JUICE NEWTON/Capitol 4976 3

41 44 GUITAR MAN ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA 12158 6

42 39 LOVE ON THE ROCKS NEIL DIAMOND/Capitol 4939 17

50 JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME APRIL WINE/Capitol 4975 4

72 I CAN'T STAND IT ERIC CLAPTON & HIS BAND/RSO 1060 2

45 47 FANTASTIC VOYAGE LAKESIDE/Solar 12129 (RCA) 9

46 32 SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD-EAGLES/Asylum 47100 9

47 36 HEY NINETEEN STEELY DAN/MCA 51036 13

CB 66 BEING WITH YOU SMOKEY ROBINSON/Tamla 54321(Motown) 3

55 AIN'T EVEN DONE WITH THE NIGHT JOHN COUGAR/Riva207 (PolyGram) 6

50 53 STAYING WITH IT FIREFALL WITH LISA NEMZO/Atlantic3791 7

51 38 I MADE IT THROUGH THE RAIN BARRY MANILOW/Arista0566 14

52 46 (GHOST) RIDERS IN THE SKY OUTLAWS/Arista 0582 8

60 HOW 'BOUT US CHAMPAIGN/Columbia 11 11433 554 54 BACK IN BLACK AC/DC/Atlantic 3787 9

64 IT'S A LOVE THING WHISPERS/Solar 12154 (RCA) 556 42 MORE THAN I CAN SAY LEO SAYER/Warner Bros. 49565 2257 49 LADY KENNY ROGERS/Liberty 1380 21

58 56 HUNGRY HEART BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Columbia 11 11391 1659 37 MISS SUN BOZ SCAGGS/Columbia 11 11406 12

65 BURN RUBBER GAP BAND/Mercury 76091 (PolyGram) 761 63 AND LOVE GOES ON EARTH, WIND & FIRE/ARC/Columbia

11 11434 462 59 DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA POLICE/A&M 2275 1863 57 FLASH'S THEME AKA FLASH QUEEN/Elektra 47092 764 58 GUILTY BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB/Columbia

11 11390 17

75 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLIN' DONNA SUMMER/Geffen 49664 (WB) 3

133 73 WASN'T THAT A PARTY ROVERS/Epic/Cleveland Intl.19 51007 3

al 74 TURN ME LOOSE LOVERBOY/Columbia 11 11421 4

68 51 TIME IS TIME ANDY GIBB/RSO 1059 14

69 61 THEME FROM THE DUKES OF HAZZARD (GOOD OL' BOYS)WAYLON JENNINGS/RCA 12067 23

70 70 LIPSTICK SUZI QUATRO/Dreamland 107 (RSO) 4

79 MEDLEY: YESTERDAY ONCE MORE (NOTHING REMAINSTHE SAME) SPINNERS/Atlantic 3798 3

72 77 WATCHING YOU SLAVE/Cotillion 46006 (Atl) 973 78 ALL AMERICAN GIRLS SISTER SLEDGE/Cotillion 46007 (Atl) 3

CHARTMAKER OF THE WEEK

- MISTER SANDMANEMMYLOU HARRIS

Warner Bros. 49684

75 76 I JUST LOVE THE MAN JONES GIRLS/Phila. Intl. 6 3121(CBS) 7

87 I LOVE YOU CLIMAX BLUES BAND/Warner Bros. 49669 2

EEI 88 THE PARTY'S OVER (HOPELESSLY IN LOVE) JOURNEY/Columbia 11 60505 2

- SWEETHEART FRANKE & THE KNOCKOUTS/Millenrium11801 (RCA) 1

79 71 FIREFLIES FLEETWOOD MAC/Warner Bros. 49660 5

89 BON BON VIE (GIMME THE GOOD LIFE) T.S. MONK/Mirage 3780 (Atl) 2

81 67 SUDDENLY OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN AND CLIFF RICHARD/MCA 51007 18

82 82 FULL OF FIRE SHALAMAR/Solar 12152 (RCA) 8

83 68 WHIP IT DEVO/Warner Bros. 49550 26

- KEEP THIS TRAIN A ROLLIN' DOOBIE BROTHERS/WarnerBros. 49670 1

85 62 HE CAN'T LOVE YOU MICHAEL STANLEY BAND/EMI-America 8063 13

- LOVERS AFTER ALL MELISSA MANCHESTER AND PEABOBRYSON/Arista 0587 1

87 69 TELL IT LIKE IT IS HEART/Epic 19 50950 14

- SUKIYAKI TASTE OF HONEY/Capitol 4953 1

- A WOMAN NEEDS LOVE (JUST LIKE YOU DO) RAYPARKER JR. & RAYDIO/Arista 0592 1

90 80 I BELIEVE IN YOU DON WILLIAMS/MCA 41304 2391 81 IT'S MY TURN DIANA ROSS/Motown 1496 18

92 83 UNITED TOGETHER ARETHA FRANKLIN/Arista 0569 10

93 84 LOVE T.K.O. TEDDY PENDERGRASS/Phila. Intl. 9 3116 (CBS) 18

94 85 SHINE ON LTD/A&M 2283 13

95 86 I DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOUR NAME GLEN CAMPBELL/Capitol 4959 5

96 90 DREAMER ASSOCIATION/Elektra 47094 4

97 97 THIGHS HIGH (GRIP YOUR HIPS AND MOVE) TOMBROWNE/Arista/GRP 2510 2

98 91 BOOGIE BODY LAND BAR-KAYS/Mercury 76088 (PolyGram) 899 92 LOVE OVER AND OVER AGAIN SWITCH/Gordy 7193

(Motown) 11

100 93 WHO'S MAKING LOVE BLUES BROTHERS/Atlantic 3785 10

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All listings from key progressive stations around the country are in descending order unless otherwise noted

WNEW-FM / NEW YORKADDS:BADFINGER-RadioPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticDOC HOLLIDAY-A&MJEALOUS GUY (import single)-

Roxy Music-EGGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicLOVE'S MELODY (single)-

Sea rche rs-Si rePLIMSOULS-PlanetRAINBOW-PolydorSORROWS-PavillionJAMES TAYLOR ( I 2")-ColHEAVY ACTION:BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColELVIS COSTELLO-ColGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicPOLICE-A&MCLASH-EpicPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticDIRE STRAITS-WBROCKPILE-ColBLONDIE-ChrysalisSTYX-A&M

WBCN-FM /BOSTONADDS:AMY BOLTON (1 2")-Importe 12PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticELLEN FOLEY-Epic/Cleve. Intl.GARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicONE'S TOO MANY (single)-

Fabulous Thunderbirds-Chrysalis

PLIMSOULS-PlanetCOZY POWELL-PolydorRAINBOW-PolydorJAMES TAYLOR (12"1-ColWITHOUT LOVE (12")-Johnny

Cash-Ca!HEAVY ACTION:CLASH-EpicRINGS-MCAJAM-PolydorELVIS COSTELLO-ColPOLICE-A&MJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicFOOLS-EMI-AmericaU2-IslandBLONDIE-Chrysalis

WLIR/LONG ISLANDADDS:ADAM & THE ANTS-EpicBADFINGER-RadioBRAINS-MercuryPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticDOC HOLLIDAY-A&MGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicJOHN MARTYN-AntillesPLIMSOULS-PlanetPYLON-DBJAMES TAYLOR-ColHEAVY ACTION:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticRAINBOW-PolydorTODD RUNDGREN-BearsvilleOUTLAWS-AristaJORMA KAUKONEN-RCAPOLICE-A&MRUSH-A&M

CLASH-EpicSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandGARLAND JEFFREYS-Epic

WBAB-FM/LONG ISLANDADDS:BADFINGER-RadioPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticPEARL HARBOUR-WBDOC HOLLIDAY-A&MGARLAND JEFFREYS--A&MMOLLY HATCHET LIVE-EpicPLIMSOULS-PlanetRAINBOW-PolydorJAMES TAYLOR-ColEDGAR WINTER-Blue Sky

HEAVY ACTION:JOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTYX-A&MPOLICE-A&MBLONDIE-ChrysalisBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColALAN PARSONS PROJECT-AristaELVIS COSTELLO-ColSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandSTEELY DAN-MCA

WAAF-FM /WORCESTERADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticFOOLS-EMI-AmericaGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorSHERBS-AtcoHEAVY ACTION:DONNIE IRIS-MCAJOURNEY-Col38 SPECIAL-A&MSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicRINGS-MCASTYX-A&MI CAN'T STAND IT (single)-Eric

Clapton-RSOOUTLAWS-AristaRUSH-Mercury

WPLR-FM/NEW HAVENADDS:BADFINGER-RadioPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticIAN GOMM-Stiff/EpicGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorJAMES TAYLOR (12")-ColHEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandSTYX-A&MPOLICE-A&MJOURNEY-Col38 SPECIAL-A&MJ.J. CALE-ShelterDIRE STRAITS-WBSTEELY DAN-MCADOC HOLLIDAY-A&M

ADDS:BOOMTOWN RATS-ColJ.J. CALE-ShelterPHIL COLLINS-Atlantic

DOC HOLLIDAY-A&MGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorJAMES TAYLOR ( 1 2")-ColHEAVY ACTION:RINGS-MCAREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicPAT BENATAR-ChrysalisSTYX-A&MAC/DC-AtlanticFLEETWOOD MAC-WBROD STEWART-WBDIRE STRAITS-WBJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-Col

WOBK-FM /ALBANYADDS:BADFINGER-RadioSTIV BATORS-BompPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticLOUISE GOFF:N-AsylumGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicMOLLY HATCHET LIVE-EpicNEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE

-A&MJUICE NEWTON-CapitolJAMES TAYLOR (12")-Col

HEAVY ACTION:STEVE WINWOOD-IslandCLASH-EpicRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCAPOLICE-A&MTEARDROP EXPLODES-MercuryU2-IslandWALKING ON THIN ICE (1 2"l-

Yoko Ono-GeffenRUSH-MercuryJIM CARROLL-AtcoANY TROUBLE-Stiff America

WMJO-FM /ROCHESTERADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicHEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicJOURNEY-C.)1ALAN PARSONS PROJECT-Ar stCHEAP TRICK-EpicRUSH-MercurySTYX-A&MLOVER'OY-ColDONNIE IRIS-MCAPOLICE-A&MSTEVE WINWOOD-Island

WCMF-FM /ROCHESTERADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticDOC HOLLIDAY-A&MGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicPLIMSOULS-PlanetRAINBOW-PolydorRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCAHEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicRUSH-MercuryJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenSTYX-A&MPAT BENATAR-ChrysalisPOLICE-A&MAC/DC-AtlanticJOURNEY-Col

DIRE STRAITS-WBBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-Col

WOUR-FM /UTICAADDS:BRAINS-MercuryPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticDOC HOLLIDAY-A&MIRS GREATEST HITS VOLS. 2 & 3

-IRSGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAI NBOW-PolydorJAMES TAYLOR-ColHEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandMANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND

-WBCLASH-EpicRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCAJOURNEY-ColSHERBS-AtcoSTYX-A&MAPRIL WINE-Capitol

WMMR-FM/PHILADELPHIAADDS:PHIL COLLINS-Atlantic4 OUT OF 5 DOCTORS-NemperorGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicPLIMSOULS-PlanetRAINBOW-Po I ydorHEAVY ACTION:STEVE WINWOOD-IslandPOLICE-A&MPAT BENATAR-ChrysalisJOURNEY-ColBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColDIRE STRAITS-WBELVIS COSTELLO-ColROCKPILE-ColREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

Geffen

WY DD -FM / PITTSBURGHADDS:BADFINGER-Radio

a PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticFOOLS-EMI-AmericaGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-Polyc:wRINGS-MCAHEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTYX-A&MJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandOUTLAWS-AristaJOURNEY-ColBLONDIE-ChrysalisFLEETWOOD MAC-WBMANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND

-WBAPRIL WINE-Capitol

ADDS:BADFINGER-RadioBRAINS-MercuryRAY CAMPI-Rol ling RockROSANNE CASH-Col

PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticFOOLS-EMI-AmericaGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicMAGNETICS-Rolling RockPLIMSOULS-PlanetRAINBOW-PolydorHEAVY ACTION:ELVIS COSTELLO-ColSTEVE WINWOOD-Island4 OUT OF 5 DOCTORS-NemperorPOLICE-A&MCLASH-EpicEMMYLOU HARRIS-WBRY COODER-WBXTC-VirginJAM-PolvdorJOAN JETT-Boardwalk

WwLS-FM /ATLANTAADDS:BRAINS-MercuryPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolvdorRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCA

HEAVY ACTION:STYX-A&MREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-' GeffenPAT BENATAR-ChrysalisRUSH-MercuryHOT 'LANTA HOME COOKING-

LocalSTEELY DAN-MCASTEVE WINWOOD-IslandJOURNEY-ColPOLICE-A&M

WYMX-FM/AUGUSTAADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorHEAVY ACTION:JOURNEY-ColPPUCE SPPINGSTEEN-ColSTYX-A&MREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicOUTLAWS-Arista38 SrECIAL-A&MSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandRUSH-MercuryAPRIL WINE-CapitolSHERES-Atco

WSHE-FM /FT. LAUDERDALEADDS:BADFINGER-RadioGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCAU2-IslandHEAVY ACTION:BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColSTYX-A&MREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicRUSH-MercuryALAN PARSONS PROJECT-AristaRANDY MEISNER-EpicOUTLAWS-AristaPHIL SEYMOUR-BoardwalkAPRIL WINE-CapitolSTEVE WINWOOD-Island


MOSTADDEDESCAPE ARTIST-Garland Jeffreys-

Ea (31)DIFFICULT TO CURE-Rainbow-Polydor

129)FACE VALUE-Phil Collins-Atlantic (27)THE PLIMSOULS-Planet (131SAY NO MORE-Eadfinger-Radio (10)

TOP AIRPLAYPARADISE THEATERSTYX-A&M

MOSTAIRPLANNPARADISE THEATER-Styx-A&M (30)HI INFIDELITY-REO Speedwagon-

Epic (281ARC OF A DIVER-Steve Winwood-

Island (27)CAPTURED-Journey-Col (24)ZENYATTA MONDATTA-Police-A&M

(19)DOUBLE FANTASY-John Lennon/Yoko

Ono-Geffen (17)MOVING PICTURES-Rush--Mercury (17)THE RIVER-Bruce Springsteen-Col 14)THE NATURE OF THE BEAST-April Wine

-Capitol (12)GAUCHO-Steely Dan-MCA (11)

All listings from key progressive stations around the country are in descending order unless otherwise noted

WMMS-FM/CLEVELANDADDS:BADFINGER-RadioPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicELLIOT MURPHY-CourtisoneRAINBOW-PolydorJAMES TAYLOR (1 2")-Col

HEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicJOURNEY-ColPAT BENATAR-ChrysalisBLONDIE-ChrysalisDONNIE IRIS-MCAJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenSTYX-A&MSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandTODD RUNDGREN-BearsvillePHIL SEYMOUR-Boardwalk

WABX-FM / DETROITADDS:MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND

-WBSHERBS-Atco38 SPECIAL-A&M

HEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTYX-A&MPOLICE-A&MALAN PARSONS PROJECT-AristaSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandAPRIL WINE-CapitolJOURNEY-ColPAT BENATAR-ChrysalisRANDY MEISNER-EpicJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

Geffen

Y95-FM/ROCKFORDADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticDOC HOLLIDAY-A&MGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicPLIMSOULS-PlanetRAINBOW-PolydorHEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTYX-A&MRUSH-MercuryAPRIL WINE-CapitolJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenJOURNEY-ColUFO-ChrysalisLOVERBOY-ColSTEVE WINWOOD-Island38 SPECIAL-A&M

WLUP-FM/CHICAGOADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorRUSH-MercuryRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCA

HEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicRUSH-MercurySTYX-A&MSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandAC/DC (Australian import)-WEASTEELY DAN-MCAAC/DC-AtlanticJOURNEY-Col

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND-WB

DONNIE IRIS-MCA

WXRT-FM/CHICAGOADDS:BRAINS-MercuryPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticELLEN FOLEY-Epic/Cleve. Intl.JEALOUS GUY (import single)-

Roxy Music-EGGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicSHERBS-AtcoRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCA

HEAVY ACTION:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticTODD RUNDGREN-BearsvilleBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandCLASH-EpicELVIS COSTELLO-ColANY TROUBLE-Stiff AmericaJAM-PolydorPOLICE-A&MSTEELY DAN-MCA

KSHE-FM/ST. LOUISADDS:JAM-PolydorGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorSHOES-ElektraHEAVY ACTION:APRIL WINE-CapitolSTYX-A&MJOURNEY-ColMANFRD MANN'S EARTH BAND

-WBRUSH-Mercury38 SPECIAL-A&MSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandSHERBS-AtcoLOVERBOY-ColSTINGRAY-Carrere

WLPX-FM/MILWAUKEEADDS:I CAN'T STAND IT (single)-Eric

Clapton-RSOLOVERBOY-ColRANDY MEISNER-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorRUSH-MercuryTOTO-ColHEAVY ACTION:RUSH-MercuryREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTYX-A&MJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenJOURNEY-ColALAN PARSONS PROJECT-AristaAPRIL WINE-CapitolSTEELY DAN-MCAOUTLAWS-AristaSTEVE WINWOOD-Island

WOFM-FM/MILWAUKEEADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCAWHITE LIE-StreetwiseHEAVY ACTION:RUSH-Mercury

REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTYX-A&MJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenJOURNEY-ColAPRIL WINE-CapitolSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandDONNIE IRIS-MCA38 SPECIAL-A&MLOVERBOY-Col

KQRS-FM/MINNEAPOLISADDS:NAZARETH-A&MSHERBS-Atco

HEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTYX-A&MDIRE STRAITS-WBOUTLAWS-Arista38 SPECIAL-A&MSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandMANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND

-WBRUSH-MercuryJOURNEY-ColLOVERBOY-Col

MO-FM/DALLASADDS:ELVIS COSTELLO-ColEVE MOON-CapitolRAINBOW-PolydorRUSH-MercuryPHIL SEYMOUR-Boardwalk

HEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicJOURNEY-ColLOVERBOY-ColSTYX-A&MSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandPOLICE-ARMALAN PARSONS PROJECT-AristaAC/DC (Australian import)-WEAAPRIL WINE-CapitolUFO-Chrysalis

KLOL-FM/HOUSTONADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicPLIMSOULS-PlanetRAINBOW-PolydorHEAVY ACTION:STYX-A&MJOURNEY-ColBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandALAN PARSONS PROJECT-AristaREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicOUTLAWS-Arista38 SPECIAL-A&MMICHAEL STANLEY-EMI-AmericaRUSH-Mercury

KLBJ-FM/AUSTINADDS:GARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCAB.B. KING-MCAGERARD McMAHON 8 KID

LIGHTNING-ARC/ColGAMES (single)-Phoebe Snow

-MirageNEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE

SAGE-A&M

HEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTYX-ARMSTEELY DAN-MCABRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColMANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND

-WBTODD RUNDGREN-BearsvilleSHERBS-AtcoSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandTOTO-ColAPRIL WINE-Capitol

KBPI-FM/DENVERADDS:JAMES TAYLOR-ColHEAVY ACTION:STYX-A&MREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicDIRE STRAITS-WBDONNIE IRIS-MCA707 (1 st)-Ca sa blancaRANDY MEISNER-EpicCLIMAX CLUES BAND-WBSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandAC/DC-AtlanticJOURNEY-Col

KOME-FM/SAN JOSEADDS:RAINBOW-PolydorRUSH-MercuryHEAVY ACTION:BLONDIE-Ch rysa I isDIRE STRAITS--WBDONNIE IRIS-MCAJOURNEY-ColPOLICE-A&MREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicSTEELY DAN-MCASTYX-A&MJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenALAN PARSONS PROJECT-Arista

KSJO-FM/SAN JOSEADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticDANCE CRAZE-Various Artists

-ChrysalisFOOLS-EMI-AmericaINSECTS SERVERS-WaspGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorHEAVY ACTION:STYX-A&MREO SPEED WAGON-EpicJOURNEY-ColBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColALAN PARSONS PROJECT-AristaBLONDIE-ChrysalisPAT BENATAR-ChrysalisFLEETWOOD MAC-WBJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenPOLICE-A&M

KWST-FM/LOS ANGELESADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticPLIMSOULS-PlanetRAINBOW-PolydorPHIL SEYMOUR-BoardwalkROBIN TROWER-ChrysalisHEAVY ACTION:POLICE-A&MSTYX-A&M

JOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-Geffen

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-ColROD STEWART-WBAC/DC-AtlanticPAT BENATAR-ChrysalisSTEELY DAN-MCAOUTLAWS-AristaRUSH-Mercury

K70K-FM/SEATTLEADDS:ANY TROUBLE-Stiff AmericaJIMMY BUFFETT-MCAJ.J. CALE-ShelterPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicTODD RUNDGREN-BearsvilleJAMES TAYLOR (1 2")-ColHEAVY ACTION:REO SPEEDWAGON-EpicJOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO-

GeffenSTYX-A&MDIRE STRAITS-WBSTEVIE WONDER-TamlaSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandSTEELY DAN-MCAALAN PARSONS PROJECT-AristaRANDY MEISNER-EpicBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-Col

KZEL-FM/EUGENEADDS:PHIL COLLINS-AtlanticFOOLS-EMI-AmericaGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicMOLLY HATCHET LIVE-EpicNEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE

SAGE-A&MRICK NELSON-CapitolPLIMSOULS-PlanetRAINBOW-PolydorRUSH-MercuryEDGAR WINTER-Blue Sky

HEAVY ACTION:GRACE SLICK-RCAJOURNEY-ColELVIS COSTELLO-ColMANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND

-WBJIM CARROLL-AtcoBLONDIE-ChrysalisRUSS BALLARD-EpicSTYX-A&MPOLICE-A&MRICK SPRINGFIELD-RCA

KOFM-FM/PORTLANDADDS:FOOLS-EMI-AmericaGARLAND JEFFREYS-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorHEAVY ACTION:RUSH-MercurySTYX-A&MAC/DC-AtlanticJOURNEY-ColLOVERBOY-ColOUTLAWS-AristaAPRIL WINE-CapitolREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicPOLICE-A&MROD STEWART-WB

39 stations reporting this week.In addition to those printed are:

KFML-AM KZEW-FM KZAP-FM


RadioWorldRadio Replay

By PHIL DIMAUROIII NEW YORK STATE OF MIND: On the morning of March 9, thou-sands of groggy souls in New York and the greater metropolitan areawill be shocked when their clock radios, tuned in to WABC, startspeaking in unfamiliar voices. Instead of the dulcet tones of DanIngram, they'll be hearing two voices, belonging to Ross Brittain andBrian Wilson, known to listeners of Z-93 in Atlanta (who just lostthem) as the number one -rated team of Ross & Wilson.

Actually, they'll be hearing more than two voices, because Ross &

Wilson are two funny guys whose humor includes the creation ofcharacters to perform some of those extra services (in addition tonews, weather, sports and traffic, which will be the responsibility ofspecially assigned staffers) which are expected of a morning man (ormen). In Atlanta, for instance, there was an absent-minded GeorgiaTech professor who showed up to report on "the day in history."Said Wilson: "Here in New York, he'll probably be from FairleighDickinson, or CCNY, or . . . Katherine Gibbs!"

Yes, it is tough to get a serious word out of these guys, but RadioReplay tried during a recent meeting at WABC, with PD Jay Clarksitting in to provide seriousness (and straight lines) where necessary.

Both Clark and the new team explained that the show will developover time as the new air personalities familiarize themselves with thesubtleties of the market. Clark did promise, though, that they wouldbe involved with WABC's upcoming broadcasts of the 1981 Yankees'games. For instance, Ross & Wilson have acquired the services ofBullet McFoon, Yankee pitching coach, who claims the world fastballrecord, clocked at 507 miles per hour. "It was the last ball he everthrew," said Wilson, who explained that McFoon, who is also theteam's spiritual leader, will suggest mantras to chant when the Yanksneed a little extra help against certain teams. They also said theymightmarket "Yankees Incense" as part of Ross & Wilson AlliedIndustries.

They are planning a special "Ross & Wilson Rooting Section" atYankee Stadium. "It'll be right down home run alley," boasted Wil-son. "Actually," Brittain confessed, "it'll be on top of this building-a couple of lounge chairs and a high-powered telescope, with ex-tremely long nets for catching balls!" What can you do with theseguys?

As for Dan Ingram, who's moving back to the afternoon slot hedominated for so many years, Wilson informed us that "He's offered tobuy us the Bronx as a sort of welcoming present ... he said it wouldbe a good write-off for him." "He owns this building, you know,"Brittain chimed in. "A lot of people don't know that Ingram beganowning the station in 1974. He had a great spring book and therewas no further raise that they could give him, so he said he'd takethe station. He's buying the ABC building floor by floor . . . I thinkhe's up to the 20th or something. He wanted to change the initialson the top to BDI (Big Dan Ingram)."

As the conversation moved further out of orbit, they mentioned a"special Ross & Wilson music day, where record companies will beinvited to meet with us in private . . . We want to let them knowwe're into gold, frankencense and myrhh." Anxious, Clark reachesfor the phone and begins dialing the legal department . . .

IMUS IN THE H2O: Back at rival WNBC, New York's current num-ber one morning man, Don Imus, was doing his bit for the city'sserious water shortage. Imus taped four public service announcementswith another familiar metropolitan media personality, Mayor EdwardKoch.

The basic gag involved Koch catching Imus in the act of wastingwater-for instance, leaving the faucet running while shaving. "Stopit!," yelled the mayor, telling Imus to rinse his razor in a partiallyfilled basin of water, and warning that he'd be back to check up. "Ithink I'll grow a beard," Imus moaned.

In another segment, Imus catches hell for flushing the toilet re-peatedly, arguing that the "white sounds" of running water help him


Agenda Set for Country Radio Seminar NASHVILLE - Kim Pyle(WOKX), who chairs the agendacommittee for the Country RadioSeminar, has announced thefinalized agenda for the March12-14 event, to be held at theHyatt Regency Hotel here.

The seminar, which carriesthe theme "Country Radio: No-body Does It Better," beginsThursday night (12) at 7:30 withan artist reception and cocktailparty in the Hyatt's ballrooms I

and II. Over 30 artists will at-tend the reception, which isdesigned to allow informal per-sonal contact with broadcasters.

Following breakfast Fridaymorning (13) at 7:30 in David-son B, and a roundtable discus-sion "Daytime Friends, NightimeWoes" moderated by Joel Raab(WHK), the seminar begins twodays of sessions.

"People Management -Punishment - Reward - Motiva-tion," moderated by Don Boyles(WKHK) with speaker KenGreenwood, president of Green-wood Development Programs,Tulsa is the opening session inRegency 3 and 4 from 9:30 to10:15.

From 10:15 to 11 in Regency3 and 4 "Controlling Your Career-Onward Country Soldiers," willbe moderated by Raab, withGary Stevens, president of Dou-bleday Broadcasting, Minneapolis,and Carol Parker (WMZQ).

"Plain Talk About Computers"is next on the agenda from11:15 to noon in Regency 3 and4, moderated by Paul Howard(WKDY) with Gary Kines andMark Herring, both of PloughBroadcasting, Memphis, andLowell Register, president ofRDS, Inc., Perry, Ga.

The Country Music Associa-tion will present "Things AreReally Cookin' At The CMA -We Serve Your Medium Well"from noon to 12:30 in Regency3 and 4.

Following lunch, broadcasterswill hear guest speaker ArthurGodfrey. The broadcastinglegend will address the groupfrom 1:30 to 2:15 in Regency 3and 4.

From 2:15 to 3 in Regency 3and 4 "Quarterly MeasurementHow To Cope With And Sur -


"We're not looking for a guitarist, and the word is 'Gaucho' . . ."



d s151-200

MARCH 7, 1981 176 CLOUDS ACROSS THE SKY FIREFALL/

151 IRONS IN THE FIRE TEENA MARIE/ Atlantic SD 16024Gordy G8 997M1 (Motown) 177 AEROSMITH'S GREATEST HITS/

152 BAD REPUTATION JOAN JETT/ Columbia FC 36865Boardwalk FW 37065 178 SHADES OF BLUE LOU RAWLS/

153 PARIS SUPERTRAMP/A&M SP 6702 Phila. Intl. JZ 36774 (CBS)154 DR. HOOK'S GREATEST HITS/ 179 REAL EYES GIL SCOTT -HERON/

Capitol SOO 12122 Arista AL 9540155 MOUNTAIN DANCE DAVE GRUSIN/ 180 MADE IN AMERICA BLUES

Arista/GRP 5010 BROTHERS/Atlantic SD 16025

156 SHADES J.J. CALE/Shelter/MCA 181 CORNERSTONE STYX/A&M SP 3711

5158 182 NIGHT PASSAGE WEATHER REPORT/

157 DON'T FOLLOW ME, I'M LOST TOO ARC/Columbia JC 36793PEARL HARBOUR/Warner Bros. 183 SHEENA EASTON/EMI-America85K 3515 ST 17049

158 I HAD TO SAY IT MILLIE JACKSON/ 184 IT'S JUST THE WAY I FEEL GENE

Spring SP 1 6730 (PolyGram) DUNLAP FEATURING THE

159 4 OUT OF 5 DOCTORS/Nemperor RIDGEWAYS/Capital ST 12130

NJZ 36575 (CBS) 185 RINGS/MCA 5165160 THE BEATLES/Capitol SWBO 101 186 CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT BILL

161 THB HOT SHOT DAN SIEGEL/ SUMMERS & SUMMERS HEAT/

Inner City IC 1111 MCA 5178162 PHIL SEYMOUR/Boardwalk FW 187 PLAYING TO WIN RICK NELSON/

36996 Capitol SOO 12109163 THE WANDERER DONNA SUMMER/ 188 OVER THE TOP COZY POWELL/

Geffen GHS 2000 (WB) Polydor PD 1 6312 (PolyGram)

164 VOICES DARYL HALL & JOHN 189 JUICE JUICE NEWTON/Capitol STOATES/RCA AQL1 3646 12136

165 DANCERSIZE CAROL HENSEL/ 190 TWICE AS SWEET TASTE OF

Mirus/Vintage VNJ 7701 HONEY/Capitol ST 12089166 THERE MUST BE A BETTER WORLD 191 HEAVY MENTAL FOOLS/EMI-America

SOMEWHERE B.B. KING/MCA SW 170465152 192 PLASTIC ONO BAND JOHN

167 SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN' TERRI LENNON/Capitol SW 3372GIBBS/MCA 5173 193 BETTER DAYS BLACKBYRDS/

168 CANDLES HEATWAVE/Epic FE 36873 Fantasy F 9602169 ALL SHOOK UP CHEAP TRICK/Epic 194 DELEGATION/Mercury SRM 1 3821

FE 36498 (PolyGram)170 UNLIMITED TOUCH/Prelude PRL 195 LUMINOUS BASEMENT TOURISTS/

12184 Epic NJE 36757

171 GOLDEN TOUCH ROSE ROYCE/ 196 LIVING IN A FANTASY LEO SAYER/

Whitfield WHK 3512 (WB) Warner Bros. BSK 3483197 THE SECOND ALBUM 707/

172 THIS IS MY DREAM SWITCH/Gordy Casablanca NBLP 7248 (PolyGram)G8 999M1 (Motown) 198 PORTRAIT OF CARRIE CARRIE

173 TONGUE TWISTER SHOES/Elektra LUCAS/Solar BXL1 3579 (RCA)6E 303 199 INTO THE FIRE RUSS BALLARD/Epic

174 ELOISE 1AWS/Liberty LT 1063 NJE 36993175 GUITAR MAN ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA 200 HOLD OUT JACKSON BROWNE/

AAL1 3917 (PolyGram) Asylum 5E 511

Album Cross ReferenceABBA 30 BARRY MAN I LOW 40AC/DC 8, 91 MANFRED MANN 79

ADAM A. THE ANTS 143 RANDY MEISNER 130

AIR SUPPLY 48 RONNIE MILSAP 49

PETER A.LLEN 72 T.S. MONK 61

APRIL WINE 33 MICKEY MOUSE DISCO 53

ATLANTIC STARR 131 ANNE MURRAY 37

BAR -KAY'S 101 NAZARETH 84

BEATLES 80, 104, 105, 142 WILLIE NELSON 102

PAT BENATAR 6, 122 OAK RIDGE BOYS 66

GEORGE BENSON 96 ONE WAY 147

BLONDIE 9 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK:BOOMTOWN RATS 115 ANNIE 145

TOM BRDWNE 55 FAME 111

PEABO BRYSON 121 HONEYSUCKLE ROSE 54

JIMMY BUFFETT 32 URBAN COWBOY 67

CAMEO 93 XANADU 52

JIM CARROLL BAND 100 OUTLAWS 28CLARENCE CARTER 135 ALAN PARSONS PROJECT 18

CHIPMUNKS 118 DOLLY PARTON 16

CLASH 36 TEDDY PENDERGRASS 109

PHIL COLLINS 112 POLICE 10

CON FUNK SHUN 57 JEAN-LUC PONTY 138

RY COODER 60 PRINCE 117

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 114 QUEEN 27, 50CHRISTOPHER CROSS 41 EDDIE RABBITT 20CHARLIE DANIELS 126 SHARON REDD 113

ELVIS COSTELLO 26 RAINBOW 97

DANCE CRAZE 141 CLIFF RICHARD 108

DEVO 129 SMOKEY ROBINSON 70

NEIL DIAMOND 4 TODD RUNDGREN 65

DIRE STRAITS 31 REO SPEEDWAGON 1, 133DOOBIE BROTHERS 76 KENNY ROGERS 5

DOORS 63 LINDA RONSTADT 83

EAGLES 25 DIANA ROSS 77 106

EWF 74 RUSH 22

WILTON FEL)ER 146 PATRICE RUSHEN 127

ROBERTA FLACK & PEABO BRYSON 86 JOE SAMPLE 45FLEETWOOD MAC 73 BOZ SCAGGS 43

ARETHA FRANKLIN 81 BOB SEGER 75

DEE DEE SHARP GAMBLE 136 SHALAMAR _ _ 56

GAP BAND 15 SHERBS 149

MARVIN GAYE 35 SISTER SLEDGE 59

ANDY GIBB 120 SKYY 89

DEXTER GORDON 140 SLAVE 58

EMMYLOLJ HARRIS 68 GRACE SLICK 47HEART 39 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 19

HIROSHIMA 137 SPYRO GYRA 78DONNIE IRIS 98 STEELY DAN 12

JACKSONS 44 ROD STEWART 24

JERMAINE JACKSON 123 STONE CITY BAND 148

JAICHAEL JACKSON 110 BARBRA STREISAND 7

JAM 69 STYX 2

BOB JAMES 85 T -CONNECTION 139WAYLON JENNINGS 92 TEARDROP EXPLODES 124BILLY JCE ,, 42 38 SPECIAL 51

JONES GIRLS 125 TIERRA 38JOURNEY 13 TOTO 44KANO 90 UFO 88KLEEER 119 U2 134

EARL KLUGH 103 GROVER WASHINGTON, JR. 23

KOOL & THE GANG II WHISPERS 34LAKESIDE 21 DON WILLIAMS 82

NICOLETTE LARSON 99 HANK WILLIAMS 94JOHNNY LEE 144 EDGAR WINTER 150JOHN LENNON 107, 116 STEVE WINWOOD 29JOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO 3 STEVIE WONDER 14

LENNY LOGGINS 95 BERNARD WRIGHT 132LOVERBOY 62 XTC 81

DON McL EAN 71 YARBROUGH & PEOPLES 17

DELBERT McCLINTON 64 WARREN ZEVON 128

A/bums101-150

MARCH 7, 1981MAR.

7FEB.

28

101 104

102 105

103 103

104 95

105 108

106 91

107 97

108 118

109 88

110 110

111 112

W3113 113

114 114

AS ONE BAR-KAYS/Mercury SRM 1 3844 (PolyGram) (G)

STARDUST WILLIE NELSON/Columbia KC 35305 (G)LATE NIGHT GUITAR EARL KLUGH/Liberty LT 1079 (G)ABBEY ROAD BEATLES/Capitol SO 383 (G)

THE BEATLES '62-'66/Capitol SKBO 3403 (L)DIANA DIANA ROSS/Motown M8 936M1 (H)SHAVED FISH JOHN LENNON/Capitol SW 3421 (G)I'M NO HERO CLIFF RICHARD/EMI-America SW 17039 (G)TP TEDDY PENDERGRASS/Phila. Intl. FZ 36745 (CBS) (H)

OFF THE WALL MICHAEL JACKSON/Epic FE 35745 (G)

FAME (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/RSO RX 1 3080 (H)

FACE VALUE PHIL COLLINS/Atlantic SD 16029 (H)SHARON REDD/Prelude PRL 12181 (G)

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL: THE CONCERT/FantasyMPF 4501 (G)

M3 124 MONDO BONGO BOOMTOWN RATS/Columbia JC 37062 (G)116 115 IMAGINE JOHN LENNON/Capitol SW 3379 (G)117 117 DIRTY MIND PRINCE/Warner Bros. BSK 3478 (G)118 86 CHIPMUNK PUNK CHIPMUNKS/Excelsior XLP 6008 (G)Ea 129 LICENSE TO DREAM KLEEER/Atlantic SD 19288 (G)120 87 ANDY GIBBS' GREATEST HITS/RSO RX 1 3091 (H)Ei 132 TURN THE HANDS OF TIME PEABO BRYSON/Capitol ST

12138 (G)122 107 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT PAT BENATAR/Chrysalis CHR

1236 (G)123 121 JERMAINE JERMAINE JACKSON/Motown M8 948M1 (H)IN 135 KILIMANJARO TEARDROP EXPLODES/Mercury SRM 1 4016

(PolyGram) (G)125 131 AT PEACE WITH WOMAN JONES GIRLS/Phila. Intl. JZ 36767

(CBS) (G)

126 126 FULL MOON CHARLIE DANIELS BAND/Epic FE 36571 (H)

127 106 POSH PATRICE RUSHEN/Elektra 6E 302 (G)

128 82 STAND IN THE FIRE WARREN ZEVON/Asylum 5E 519 tH)129 122 FREEDOM OF CHOICE DEVO/Warner Bros. BSK 3435 (G)

148 ONE MORE SONG RANDY MEISNER/Epic NJE 36748 (G)- RADIANT ATLANTIC STARR/A&M SP 4833- 'NARD BERNARD WRIGHT/Arista/GRP 5011

133 134 YOU CAN TUNE A PIANO BUT YOU CAN'T TUNA FISHREO SPEEDWAGON/Epic JE 35082 (G)

ic 145 BOY U2/Island ILPS 9646 (WB) (G)135 143 LET'S BURN CLARENCE CARTER/Venture VL 1005 (G)136 142 DEE DEE DEE DEE SHARP GAMBLE/Phila. Intl. JZ 36370

(CBS) (G)

137 141 ODORI HIROSHIMA/Arista AL 9541 (H)138 138 CIVILIZED EVIL JEAN-LUC PONTY/Atlantic SD 16020 (H)013:1 - EVERYTHING IS COOL T-CONNECTION/Capitol ST 12128 (0)140 140 GCTHAM CITY DEXTER GORDON/Columbia JC 36853 (G)141 147 DANCE CRAZE VARIOUS ARTISTS/Chrysalis CHR 1299 (0)142 130 SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND BEATLES/

Capitol SMAS 2653 (G)143 - KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIER ADAM & THE ANTS/Epic

NJE 37033144 144 LOOKING FOR LOVE JOHNNY LEE/Full Moon/Asylum 6E

309 (G)145 - ANNIE (ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM)/Columbia JS 34712146 146 INHERIT THE WIND WILTON FELDER/MCA 5144 (H)147 - LOVE IS . . . . ONE WAY/MCA 5163148 - THE BOYS ARE BACK STONE CITY BAND/Gordy G8 100

(Motown)149 THE SKILL SHERBS/Atco AD 38 137 (Atl)150 - STANDING ON ROCK EDGAR WINTER/Blue Sky JZ 36494

(CBS) (G)

130

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13 THE BEST OF TIMES STYX/A&M 23008 HEY NINETEEN STEELY DAN/MCA 51036

19 KISS ON MY LIST DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES/RCA 12142

16 LIVING IN A FANTASY LEO SAYER/Warner Bros. 4965720 JUST THE TWO OF US GROVER WASHINGTON, JR./Elektra

47103 417 11 I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT EDDIE RABBITT/Elektra 47066 1518 17 CELEBRATION KOOL & THE GANG/De-Lite 807 (PolyGram) 8

19 14 SAME OLDE LANG SYNE DAN FOGEL8ERG/Full Moon/Epic19 50961 10

20 18 SEVEN BRIDGES ROADS EAGLES/Asylum 47100 8

En 32 ANGEL OF THE MORNING JUICE NEWTON/Capitol 4976 2

22 21 I AIN'T GONNA STAND FOR IT STEVIE WONDER/Tamla54320 (Motown) 9

EEI 36 MISTER SANDMAN EMMYLOU HARRIS/Warner Bros. 49684 2

24 22 GIVING IT UP FOR YOUR LOVE DELBERT McCLINTON/Capitol/MSS 4948 8

En 28 GUITAR MAN ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA 12158 4

26 26 KEEP ON LOVING YOU REO SPEEDWAGON/Epic 19 50953 5

27 29 CAFE AMORE SPYRO GYRA/MCA 51035 4

28 23 MISS SUN BOZ SCAGGS/Columbia 11 11406 9

29 24 EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD AIR SUPPLY/Arista 0564 17

34 DARE TO DREAM AGAIN PHIL EVERLY/Curb 5401 2

31 25 I MADE IT THROUGH THE RAIN BARRY MANILOW/Arista0566 14

32 27 GUILTY BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB/Columbia11 11390 17

Record World

A/C ChartMARCH 7, 1981

MAR. FEB.7 28U 2 WOMAN

JOHN LENNON

Geffen 49644 (WB)

WKS. ONCHART

7

2 1 9 TO 5 DOLLY PARTON/RCA 12133 11

El 5 HELLO AGAIN (LOVE THEME FROM THE JAZZ SINGER)NEIL DIAMOND/Capitol 4960 6

4 4 THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL ABBA/Atlantic 3776 13in 7 CRYING DON McLEAN/Millennium 11799 (RCA) 76 6 SMOKY MOUNTAIN RAIN RONNIE MILSAP/RCA 12084 13

1113 9 WHAT KIND OF FOOL BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB/Columbia 11 11430 6

8 3 THE TIDE IS HIGH BLONDIE/Chrysalis 2465 13

in 12 SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN' TERRI GIBBS/MCA 41309 6

10 10 A LITTLE IN LOVE CLIFF RICHARD/EMI-America 8068 8

El 15 MORNING TRAIN (NINE TO FIVE) SHEENA EASTON/EMI-America 8071 3

13

30

6

12

5

5


EEI - BEING WITH YOUSMOKEY ROBINSON

Tamla 54321 (Motown)

34 30 LOVE ON THE ROCKS NEIL DIAMOND/Capitol 4939 17

- LET'S PICK IT UP (WHERE WE LEFT IT OFF) CHRIS MONTAN/20th Century Fox 2480 (RCA) 1


- WHILE YOU SEE A CHANCE STEVE WINWOOD/Island49656 (WB) 1

38 39 HOW 'BOUT US CHAMPAIGN/Columbia 11 11434 3

- HEARTS ON FIRE RANDY MEISNER/Epic 19 50964 1

40 - LOVERS AFTER ALL MELISSA MANCHESTER AND PEABOBRYSON/Arista 0587 1

41 43 KEEP THIS TRAIN A-ROLLIN' DOOBIE BROTHERS/WarnerBros. 49670 2

42 44 WHAT'S IN A KISS GILBERT O'SULLIVAN/Epic 19 50967 243 - SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW BARBARA MANDRELL/

MCA 51062 1

44 - IT'S MY JOB JIMMY BUFFETT/MCA 51061 1

45 STAYING WITH IT FIREFALL WITH LISA NEMZO/Atlantic3791 1

46 31 LADY KENNY ROGERS/Liberty 1380 2047 35 IT'S MY TURN DIANA ROSS/Motown 1496 1748 37 (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER JOHN LENNON/Geffen 49604

(WB) 1649 41 SEND A LITTLE LOVE MY WAY STEPHEN BISHOP/Warner

Bros. 49595 450 38 SUDDENLY OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN AND CLIFF RICHARD/

MCA 51007 18

Deregulation, PBS Funding Targeted

As House Subcommittee's Priorities

WASHINGTONthe House Subcommittee onTelecommunications, ConsumerProtection and Finance met withthe public and the press last weekto describe its agenda and theconcerns and priorities of itsCongressmen.

Subcommittee Chairman Timo-thy E. Wirth (D -Colo.) and fiveother subcommittee membersmade it clear during the specialmeeting that broadcast and tele-communications deregulation (in-cluding a Communication Act Re-form Bill) and the protection ofPublic Broadcasting's "forwardfunding" mechanism are high onthe list of priorities.

Congressman Wirth and JamesM. Collins, the ranking Republi-can from Texas, both agreed thatthe Federal CommunicationsCommission could better servethe public if the congressionaloversight and appropriationsfunctions for the FCC came underthe auspices of their subcommit-tee. They indicated that theHouse Appropriations Committee,which now handles authorization,has little knowledge of the innerworkings of the FCC or the prob-lems and challenges the publicfaces in the near future as a resultof what they called the telecom-munications revolution.

Speaking of broadcast deregu-lation, Wirth told reporters thatthe recent deregulatory policiesof the FCC were fine, but that"much more has to be done."

Rep. Al Swift (D -Wash.), a sub-committee member whose majorinterest is broadcasting, told thegroup that communications policyis "unfortunately esoteric to thegeneral public," which "tends toignore it," even though when thecommunications revolution oc-curs "the public will ask us whywe didn't inform them." Heurged, therefore, that the com-mittee be as educated as possiblein all aspects of on -going tele-

By BILL HOLLAND- Members of communications developments.

Rep. Swift called the FCC's ownderegulatory moves "scrappingbarnacles from the bottom of aboat," and that a thorough lookat deregulation measures must beaccomplished "to prevent thebarnacles from growing rightback."

Swift also said that the broad-cast industry "won't much likequantifying deregulation" so thepublic will have general outlinesby which "responsibility can bemeasured," but he also felt thatmedia access groups "will beloathe to give up the remaining(regulatory) handles."

GuidelinesChairman Wirth outlined the

general guidelines of his view onderegulation, saying that thefederal government's historicalcase by case "referee role" hasnow "outlived its time."

Telecommunications technol-ogy is changing and growing sorapidly, he said, that "competi-tion is now the end we wish topursue," and that "governmentregulation barriers must not getin the way of access to new prod-ucts by consumers."

Wirth also spoke about thecontroversial budget of the Cor-poration for Public Broadcasting,which is being cut by 25 percentby the Reagan administration(RW , Feb. 28). He said he plannedto "insure" that the federal lawin which CPB's budget is deter-mined a year in advance by theCongress to insulate it from po-litical pressures is left intact.

Swift, another Democrat, addedthat he wanted to make sure thatby the subcommittee's action onthis matter "these cuts don't seta precedent for congress 'punish-ing' public broadcasting in thefuture for its programming," butmade it clear-at least on the rec-ord-that he wasn't speaking ofReagan's action's as "punish-ment."

'Altered States' Composer Honored

Prior to a recent screening for the music press, dealers and radio of the motion picture"Altered States," RCA Records honored John Corigliano, composer of the film's score,with a reception to coincide with RCA's release of the soundtrack album. At the party,it was announced Corigliano had been nominated for an Academy Award for "Altered!,tates," his first film score. Pictured at the reception are from left: Thomas Z. Shepard,division vice president, Red Seal, RCA Records; Corigliano; and Howard Gottfried, thefilm's producer.

30 RECORD WORLD MARCH 7, 191L1


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SALESMAKERMOVING PICTURESRUSHMercury

TOP SALESMOVING PICTURES-Rush-MercuryBEING WITH YOU-Smokey Robinson-

Tamla

COCONUT TELEGRAPH-Jimmy Buffett-MCA

TO LOVE AGAIN-Diana Ross-Motown

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A survey of NEW product sales listed alphabetically in the nation's leading retail outlets

HANDLEMAN/NATIONAL

APRIL WINE-CapitolJIMMY BUFFETT-MCAGLEN CAMPBELL-CapitolDAVE & SUGAR-RCAMARVIN GAYE-TamlaJOURNEY-ColDON McLEAN-MillenniumDIANA ROSS-MotownSISTER SLEDGE-CotillionSTYX-A&M

PICKWICK/NATIONALAPRIL WINE-CapitolJIMMY BUFFETT-MCAMARVIN GAYE-TamlaEMMYLOU HARRIS-WBJOURNEY-ColNAZARETH-A&MELVIS PRESLEY-RCAHANK WILLIAMS JR.-ElektraSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandYARBROUGH & PEOPLES-Mercury

SOUND UNLIMITED/NATIONAL

APRIL WINE-CapitolCREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL

-FantasyDANCERCIZE-VintageMARVIN GAYE-TamlaOUTLAWS-An staSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaDIANA ROSS-MotownTODD RUNDGREN-Bearsville38 SPECIAL-A&MEDGAR WINTER-Blue Sky

WHEREHOUSE/NATIONALBOOMTOWN RATS-ColDOC HOLLIDAY-A&MFOOLS-EMI-AmericaEMMYLOU HARRIS-WELOVERBOY-ColONE WAY-MCASHERBS-AtcoSHOES-ElektraTASTE OF HONEY-Capitol

CRAZY EDDIE/NEW YORKABBA-AtlanticBLONDIE-ChrysalisPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticEARTH, WIND & FIRE-ARC/ColMARVIN GAYE-TamlaJAZZ SINGER-Capitol

(Soundtrack)KOOL & THE GANG-De-LiteREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicRUSH-MercuryTIERRA-Boardwalk

DISC-0-MAT/NEW YORKAPRIL WINE-CapitolJIMMY BUFFETT-MCAPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticBOB JAMES-Col/Tappan ZeeNAZARETH-A&MDIANA ROSS-MotownRUSH-MercuryTEARDROP EXPLODES-MercuryUNLIMITED TOUCH-PreludeEDGAR WINTER-Blue Sky

KING KAROL/NEW YORKADAM & THE ANTS-ColTOM BROWNE-Arista/GRPPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticEMMYLOU HARRIS-WBDON McLEAN-MillenniumRANDY MEISNER-EpicRAINBOW-PolydorRUSH-MercuryTOTO-ColWHISPERS-Solar

RECORD WORLD-TSSSTORES/NORTHEAST

APRIL WINE-CapitolJIMMY BUFFETT-MCAEARTH, WIND & FIRE-ARC/Col

DON McLEAN-MillenniumRANDY MEISNER-EpicEDDIE RABBITT-ElektraTODD RUNDGREN-Bearsville38 SPECIAL-A&MTOTO-ColYARBROUGH & PEOPLES-Mercury

SAM GOODY/EAST COASTSHEENA EASTON--EMI-AmericaJAM-PolydorDON McLEAN-MillenniumRANDY MEISNER-EpicEDDIE RABBITT-ElektraRED SPEEDWAGON-EpicCLIFF RICHARD-EMI-AmericaRUSH-Mercury38 SPECIAL-A&MWARREN ZEVON-Asylum

CUTLER'S/NEW HAVENPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticJOAN JETT-BoardwalkJOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO-

GeffenDOLLY PARTON-RCARAINBOW-PolydorREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicRUSH-MercuryPHIL SEYMOUR-BoardwalkSISTER SLEDGE-CotillionSTEVE WINWOOD-Island

FOR THE RECORD/BALTIMORE

ATLANTIC STARR-A&MTOM BROWNE-Arista/GRPPEABO BRYSON-CapitalSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaDIANA ROSS-MotownRUSH-MercurySISTER SLEDGE-CotillionTASTE OF HONEY-CapitolT-CONNECTION-CapitolBERNARD WRIGHT-Arista/GRP

RECORD & TAPECOLLECTOR/BALTIMORE

TOM BROWNE-Arista/GRPPEABO BRYSON-CapitolJIMMY BUFFETT-MCAPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticLOVERBOY-ColOUTLAWS-AristaRAINBOW-PolydorSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaRUSH-MercuryGRACE SLICK-RCA

KEMP MILL/WASH., D.C.ATLANTIC STARR-A&MLANI HALL-A&MKLEEER-AtlanticSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaDIANA ROSS-MotownRUSH-MercuryT.S. MONK-MirageGROVER WASHINGTON, JR.-

ElektraSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandBERNARD WRIGHT-Arista/GRP

WAXIE MAXIE/WASH., D.C.

ATLANTIC STARR-A&MPEABO BRYSON-Capitol4 OUT OF 5 DOCTORS-NemperorDONNIE IRIS-MCADON McLEAN-MillenniumRAINBOW-PolydorRUSH-MercuryGRACE SLICK-RCAT-CONNECTION-CapitolBERNARD WRIGHT-Arista/GRP

PENGUIN FEATHER/NO. VIRGINIA

JIMMY BUFFETT-MCADANCE CRAZE-Chrysalis

(Soundtrack)4 OUT OF 5 DOCTORS-Nemperor

PEARL HARBOUR-WBJOAN JETT-BoardwalkLOVERBOY-ColRAINBOW-PolydorTODD RUNDGREN-BearsvilleRUSH-Mercury38 SPECIAL-A&M

RECORD REVOLUTION/PA. -DEL.

NAZARETH-A&MRAINBOW-PolydorSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaDIANA ROSS-MotownRUSH-Mercury38 SPECIAL-A&MUFO-ChrysalisUNLIMITED TOUCH-Prelude

RADIO 437/PHILADELPHIAPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticMARVIN GAYE-TamlaDAVE GRUSIN-Arista/GRPJOAN JETT-BoardwalkJOURNEY-ColMARKLEY BAND-AccordRUSH-MercurySISTER SLEDGE-CotillionSTYX-A&MSTEVE WINWOOD-Island

WEBB/PHILADELPHIAPEABO BRYSON-CapitolJERRY KNIGHT-A&MESTHER PHILLIPS-MercuryWILSON PICKETT-EMI-AmericaBILLY PRESTON-MotownREVELATION-HandshakeSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaDIANA ROSS-MotownSISTER SLEDGE-CotillionT-CONNECTION-Capitol

FATHERS & SUNS/MIDWEST

EMMYLOU HARRIS-WBLOVERBOY-ColRAINBOW-PolydorSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaDIANA ROSS-MotownRUSH-MercurySHERBS-AtcoDAN SIEGEL-Inner CitySISTER SLEDGE-Cotillion38 SPECIAL-A&M

RECORD RENDEZVOUS/CLEVELAND

ADAM & THE ANTS-ColDANCE CRAZE-Chrysalis

(Soundtrack)PEARL HARBOUR-WBLOVERBOY-ColCOZY POWELL-PolydorTODD RUNDGREN-BearsvilleRUSH-MercurySHERBS-AtcoU2-IslandBERNARD WRIGHT-Arista/GRP

RECORD REVOLUTION/CLEVELAND

JIMMY BUFFETT-MCAPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticELVIS COSTELLO-ColDANCE CRAZE-Chrysalis

(Soundtrack)ROBERTA FLACK-PEABO BRYSON-

AtlanticBOB JAMES-Col/Tappan ZeeDIANA ROSS-MotownRUSH-MercuryU2-IslandSTEVE WINWOOD-Island

ROSE RECORDS/CHICAGOATLANTIC STARR-A&MTOM BROWNE-Arista/GRPCLASH-EpicCREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL

-Fantasy

DANCERCIZE-VintageJOURNEY-ColKANO-EmergencySMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaDIANA ROSS-MotownJOE SAMPLE-MCA

RADIO DOCTORS/MILWAUKEE

ATLANTIC STARR-A&MLOVERBOY-ColRAINBOW-PolydorSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaDIANA ROSS-MotownRUSH-MercuryBILL SUMMERS-PrestigeT-CONNECTION-CapitolWHITE LIE-StreetwiseSTEVE WINWOOD-Island

LIEBERMAN/MINNEAPOLISFOOLS-EMI-AmericaLOVERBOY-ColNEW RIDERS-MCAJUICE NEWTON-MCARAINBOW-PolydorSHERBS-AtcoSISTER SLEDGE-Cotillion38 SPECIAL-A&MGROVER WASHINGTON, JR.-

ElektraEDGAR WINTER-Blue Sky

MUSICLAND/ST. LOUISTOM BROWNE-Arista/GRPPEABO BRYSON-CapitolJIMMY BUFFETT-MCAEMMYLOU HARRIS-WEJOURNEY-ColKLEEER-AtlanticCRISTY LANE-LibertyRAINBOW-PolydorREO SPEEDWAGON-EpicRUSH-Mercury

STREETSIDE RECORDS/ST. LOUIS

ABBA-AtlanticADAM & THE ANTS-ColJIMMY BUFFETT-MCAPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticLISA GILKYSON-HeliosB.B. KING-MCARAINBOW-PolydorSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaRUSH-MercuryU2-Island

POPLAR TUNES/MEMPHISJ.J. CALE-MCAJOAN JETT-BoardwalkWILLIE MITCHELL-BearsvilleJUICE NEWTON-CapitolSMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaDIANA ROSS-MotownRUSH-MercuryDAN SIEGEL-Inner CityT-CONNECTION-CapitolT.S. MONK-Mirage

TAPE CITY/NEW ORLEANSPEABO BRYSON-CapitolJIMMY BUFFETT-MCACLARENCE CARTER-VantageTERRI GIBBS-MCAJOURNEY-ColSMOKEY ROBINSON-TarnlaDIANA ROSS-MotownRUSH-MercurySISTER SLEDGE-Cotillion38 SPECIAL-A&M

SOUND WAREHOUSE/HOUSTON

BLONDIE-ChrysalisJIMMY BUFFETT-MCATERRI GIBBS-MCAJOURNEY-ColJOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO-

GeffenREO SPEED WAGON-Epic

TOTO-ColSTEVE WINWOOD-IslandYARBROUGH & PEOPLES-Mercury

SOUND WAREHOUSE/COLORADO

APRIL WINE-CapitolJ.J. CALE-MCAJIM CARROLL BAND-AtcoGAP BAND-MercuryLOVERBOY-ColRUSH-MercurySLAVE-CotillionSISTER SLEDGE-Cotillion38 SPECIAL-A&MWHISPERS-Sol a r

CIRCLES/ARIZONABREAD & ROSES FESTIVAL-FantasyTOM BROWNE-Arista/GRPEMMYLOU HARRIS-WBJOURNEY-ColDON McLEAN-MillenniumONE WAY-MCASMOKEY ROBINSON-TamlaPHIL SEYMOUR-BoardwalkSISTER SLEDGE-CotillionSTYX-A&M

TOWER/PHOENIXBOOMTOWN RATS-ColTOM BROWNE-Arista/GRPIAN DURY-Stiff-EpicSHEENA EASTON-EMI-AmericaFOOLS-EMI-AmericaJUICE NEWTON-CapitolRAINBOW-PolydorRUSH-MercurySISTER SLEDGE-CotillionEDGAR WINTER-Blue Sky

LICORICE PIZZA/LOS ANGELES

AIR SUPPLY-AristaCLASH-EpicCHRISTOPHER CROSS-WEDOORS-ElektraFLEETWOOD MAC-WBEMMYLOU HARRIS-WBKOOL & THE GANG-De-LiteLAKESIDE-SolarRAINBOW-PolydorYARBROUGH & PEOPLES-Mercury

MUSIC PLUS/LOS ANGELESATLANTIC STARR-A&MTOM BROWNE-Arista/GRPPHIL COLLINS-AtlanticDAVE GRUSIN-Arista/GRPNAZARETH-A&MRAINBOW-PolydorJOE SAMPLE-MCATASTE OF HONEY-Capitol38 SPECIAL-A&MEDGAR WINTER-Blue Sky

EUCALYPTUS RECORDS/WEST & NORTHWEST

APRIL WINE-CapitolELVIS COSTELLO-C-olFEARL HARBOUR-WBEMMYLOU HARRIS-WBJOURNEY-ColKANO-EmergencyLOVERBOY-ColSISTER SLEDGE-CotillionWHISPERS-SolarSTEVE WINWOOD-Island

EVERYBODY'S RECORDS/NORTHWEST

ADAM & THE ANTS-ColJIMMY BUFFETT--MCAJ.J. CALE-MCAJIM CARROLL BAND-AtcoLAKESIDE-SolarLOVERBOY-ColRUSH-MercuryJOE SAMPLE-MCAU2-IslandSTEVE WINWOOD--Island


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6 67 78 8

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39 3240 3541 2742 4543 4244 3345 4646 3447 47

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11TH

PARADISE THEATER STYX/A&M SP 3719 6

DOUBLE FANTASY JOHN LENNON/YOKO ONO/GeffenGHS 2001 (WB) 12

THE JAZZ SINGER (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) NEILDIAMOND/Capitol SWAV 12120 13

KENNY ROGERS' GREATEST HITS/Liberty LOO 1072 19

CRIMES OF PASSION PAT BENATAR/Chrysalis CHE 1275 27GUILTY BARBRA STREISAND/Columbia FC 36750 20BACK IN BLACK AC/DC/Atlantic SD 16018 28AUTOAMERICAN BLONDIE/Chrysalis CHE 1290 12

ZENYATTA MONDATTA THE POLICE/A&M SP 4831 18

CELEBRATE KOOL & THE GANG/De-Lite DSR 9518(PolyGram) 18

GAUCHO STEELY DAN/MCA 6102 12

CAPTURED JOURNEY/Columbia KC2 37616 3

HOTTER THAN JULY STEVIE WONDER/Tamla TB 373M1(Motown) 16

GAP BAND III/Mercury SRM 1 4003 (PolyGram) 8

9 TO 5 AND ODD JOBS DOLLY PARTON/RCA AHL1 3852 7

THE TWO OF -'DOUGH & PEOPLES/Mercury SRM1 3834 (PolyGram) 7

THE TURN OF A FRIENDLY CARD ALAN PARSONS PROJECT/Arista AL 9518 15

THE RIVER BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN/Columbia PC2 36E 17

HORIZON EDDIE RABBITT/Elektra 6E 276 25FANTASTIC VOYAGE LAKESIDE/Solar BXL1 3720 (RCA) 13

MOVING PICTURES RUSH/Mercury SRM 1 4013 (PolyGram) 2WINELIGHT GROVER WASHINGTON, JR./Elektra 6E 305 15FOOLISH BEHAVIOUR ROD STEWART/Warner Bros. HS

3485 12134

3210

LIVE EAGLES/Asylum BB 705TRUST ELVIS COSTELLO/Columbia JC 37051THE GAME QUEEN/Elektra 5E 513GHOST RIDERS OUTLAWS/Arista AL 9542

ARC OF A DIVER STEVE WINWOOD/Island ILPS 9576 (WB) 7

SUPER TROUPER ABBA/Atlantic SD 16023 11

MAKING MOVIES DIRE STRAITS/Warner Bros. BSK 3480 15

COCONUT TELEGRAPH JIMMY BUFFETT/MCA 5169 3

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST APRIL WINE/Capitol SOO 12125 6

IMAGINATION WHISPERS/Solar BZL1 3578 (RCA) 8

IN OUR LIFETIME MARVIN GAYE/Tamla T8 474M1(Motown) 5

SANDINISTA! CLASH/Epic E3X 37037 5

ANNE MURRAY'S GREATEST HITS/Capitol SOO 12110 21

CITY NIGHTS TIr"9A/Boardwalk FW 36995 5

GRL-1EST HITS/LIVE HEART/Epic KE2 36888BARRY BARRY MANILOW/Arista AL 9537CHRISTOPHER CROSS/Warner Bros. BSK 3383GLASS HOUSES BILLY JOEL/Columbia "" 36384HITS! BOZ SCAGGS/Columbia FC 36841TRIUMPH JACKSONS/Epic FE 36/1°4VOICES IN THE RAIN JOE SAMFLE/MCA 5172NO TURNING BACK TOTO/Columbia FC 36813WELCOME TO THE WRECKING BALL GRACE SLICK/RCA

AQL1 3851LOST IN LOVE AIR SUPPLY/Arista AB 4268GREATEST HITS RONNIE MILSAP/RCA AHL1 3722FLASH GORDON (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) QUEEN/Elektra

5E 518

WILD-EYED SOUTHERN BOYS 38 SPECIAL/A&M SP 4835

XANADU (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/MCA 6100MICKEY MOUSE DISCO/Disneyland/Vista 2504

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Eta ALL AMERICAN GIRLS SISTER SLEDGE/Cotillion SD 16027(AtI) 2 H

65 BORDER LINE RY COODER/Warner Bros. BSK 3489 6 G

66 HOUSE OF MUSIC T.S. MONK/Mirage WTG 19121 (Atl) 2 G

TIF" 75 LOVERBOY/Columbia JC 36762 5 G

63 63 GREATEST HITS DOORS/Elektra 5E 515 17 H

69 THE JEALOUS KIND DELBERT McCLINTON/Capitol/MSSST 12115 5 G

r7 77 HEALING TODD RUNDGREN/Bearsville BHS 3522 (WB) 3 H

61 GREATEST HITS OAK RIDGE BOYS/MCA 5150 14 H

62 URBAN COWBOY (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) VARIOUSARTISTS/Full Moon/Asylum DP 90002 40 X

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69 76 SOUND AFFECTS JAM/Polydor 1 6315 (PolyGram) 4 G

- BEING WITH YOU SMOKEY ROBINSON/Tamla 18 375M1(Motown) 1 H

83 CHAIN LIGHTNING DON McLEAN/Millennium BXL1 7756(RCA) 2 G

72 74 BI -COASTAL PETER ALLEN/A&M SP 4825 6 G

73 67 FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE/Warner Bros. 2WB 3500 9 X

74 58 FACES EARTH, WIND & FIRE/ARC/Columbia KC2 36795 14 L

75 72 AGAINST THE WIND BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLETBAND/Capitol SOO 12041 50 H

76 55 ONE STEP CLOSER DOOBIE BROTHERS/Warner Bros. HS3452 20 H

1E81 - TO LOVE AGAIN DIANA ROSS/Motown M8 951M1 1 H

78 78 CARNAVAL SPYRO G A/MCA 5149 5 H

79 84 CHANCE MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND/Warner Bros.BSK 3498

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54 52 HONEYSUCKLE ROSE (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) WILLIENELSON & FAMILY/Columbia S2 36752 25

MAGIC TOM BROWNE/Arista/GRP 5503 3

56 THREE FOR LOVE SHALAMAR/Solar BZL1 3577 (RCA) 557 TOUCH CON FUNK SHUN/Mercury SRM 1 4002 (PolyGram) 1158 STONE JAM SLAVE/Cotillion SD 5224 (Atl) 7

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80 85 THE BEATLES '67-'70/Capitol SKBO 340490 BLACK SEA XTC/Virgin RSO VA 13147 3 G

82 89 I BELIEVE IN YOU DON WILLIAMS/MCA 5133 17 H

83 73 GREATEST HITS-VOLUME II LINDA RONSTADT/Asylum5E 516 16 H

3 G9 L

98 THE FOOL CIRCLE NAZARETH/A&M SP 4844 2 G

111 ALL AROUND THE TOWN BOB JAMES/Columbia/Tappan Zee C2X 36786 1 J

86 80 LIVE 8 MORE ROBERTA FLACK & PEABO BRYSON/AtlanticSD 2 7004 10 L

87 79 ARETHA ARETHA FRANKLIN/Arista AL 9538 17 H

88 70 THE WILD, THE WILLING AND THE INNOCENT UFO/Chrysalis CHE 1307 6 H

89 94 SKYYPORT SKYY/Salsoul SA 8537 (RCA) 6 G

100 KANO/Emergency EMLP 7505 2 G

101 HIGHWAY TO HELL AC/DC/Atlantic SD 19244 1 G92 96 GREATEST HITS WAYLON JENNINGS/RCA AHL1 3378 92 G93 71 FEEL ME CAMEO/Chocolate City CCLP 2016 (PolyGram) 17 G94 99 ROWDY HANK WILLIAMS, JR./Elektra/Curb 6E 330 2 H

95 92 KENNY LOGGINS ALIVE/Columbia C2X 36738 21 J

96 93 GIVE ME THE NIGHT GEORGE BENSON/Qwest/WB HS

EEI 3453 28 H125 DIFFICULT TO CURE RAINBOW/Polydor PD 1 6316(PolyGram) 1 G

116 BACK ON THE STREETS DONNIE IRIS/MCA 3272 1 G99 64 RADIOLAND NIICOLETTE LARSON/Warner Bros. BSK 3502 7 G

100 102 CATHOLIC BOY JIM CARROLL BAND/Atco SD 38 132 1 G

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Black "Onehtd eddMusicBlack Music Report

By NELSON GEORGE Louis Jordan was a very funny performer. With his saxophone athis side, his eyes big and active, and a dazzling smile, Jordan wasthe complaining lover of his self -penned classic "Caldonia" (1946),the irritated chicken of "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" (1946),a wizened veteran of sexual warfare in "Beware" (1946), and a jailedbut happy partygoer in "Saturday Night Fish Fry" (1949); each char-acter was portrayed with understanding and a wonderful sense ofcomic timing.

Like Louis Armstrong before him and the Coasters later, Jordan'svoice was capable of sweaty innuendo and down-home observationat the flick of a syllable. It didn't hurt that Jordan was backed bythe rocking tempos and horn lines of his Tympany Five. Chuck Berryand Bill Haley cited his humor and style as influences, while SteveWinwood says Jordan's mix of jazz and dance rhythms helped inspirethe English rock -jazz combo Traffic.

MCA has released two Jordan "Best Of" collections, one in 1977and one last year. Other collections on Decca, his original label, areout of print but can still be found in some stores. If you don't haveany Jordan at home you're missing some good music and quite afew smiles.

Some contemporary laugh producers following in the Jordan tradi-tion are: Edwin Birdsong's "Rapper Dapper Snapper" on Salsoul, agood dance track with wonderfully weird voices floating in and outof the mix; the Trammps' "Breathtaking View," with Earl Young's bassvoice creating a whimsical contrast with Jimmy Ellis' pleading leadvocal; and Tom Browne's "Thighs High," which features a crude butamusing chant about gripping "hips that move."

* * *

Randy Muller is quietly building a strong musical organization withhis Brooklyn roots at the base. He already produces two artists fromBrooklyn, Salsoul's Skyy and Cameron, both steady sellers for thatRCA -distributed label. Now Muller has taken control of Brass Con-struction, the group he helped found in the early 1970s. Muller be-gins work on their next Liberty LP shortly. He also is working withanother young self-contained band from Brooklyn and looking toplace them on a label. Muller's wife is a professional designer andsupplies all Muller's acts with their flashy stage garb.

Junie Morrison's second Columbia album, "Five," is due in a monthor two. The single is, fashionably enough, a rap record called "Rappin'About Rappin'." The ex -Ohio Player and P -Funk member turns inanother eclectic collection of uncategorizable music in the style ofhis "Bread Alone" Columbia debut. Whether radio programmers andrecord buyers will come to appreciate Morrison's unusual (to say theleast) vision remains to be seen.

PICKS OF THE WEEKBEING WITH YOUSMOKEY ROBINSON-Tamla T8 -375M1

This master ofthe love songreturns witha character-istically cool,charmingcollection of

eight tunes. Seven of them areproduced by pop hitmakerGeorge Tobin, though Robinsonwrote half the songs and pro-duced one cut. "Being WithYou," "You Are Forever" and"If You Wanna Make Love (Come'Round Here)" are typical Ro-binson adventures into romance.

TO LOVE AGAINDIANA ROSS -Motown M13.951M1

This follow-upto the Chic -produced"Diana" LPcompiles mostof Ross' MOR-pop hits of

tne last decade. ' Touch Me inthe Morning" (1973), "ThemeFrom Mahogany" (1975)" andlast year's "It's My Turn" reflectthe overall tone of this MichaelMasser -produced album. Onlythree songs ("Stay With Me,""One More Chance," and "Cry -in' My Heart Out For You") arepreviously unreleased.

In New York the other day Morrison bumped into Prince at a mid-town bistro. Morrison was in town to do some business, while Princewas preparing for his appearance on "Saturday Night Live." The twoavant-garde pop musicians exchanged phone numbers. Who knowswhat'll result?

Thanks to all the folks who attended my little gathering at Leviticuson Feb. 19. Despite the rain you came to party, even all you reservedindustry types. Special thanks to deejays Rick Richardson, Mike Berry,Lovebug Starski, and Grandmaster Flash for spinning. I also applaudone Russell "Rush Productions" Simmons, a super B -Boy and the


Black Oriented Album ChartMARCH 7, 1981

1. GAP BAND III25. VOICES IN THE RAIN

JOE SAMPLE/MCA 5172

Mercury SRM 1 4003 (PolyGram) 26. JERMAINEJERMAINE JACKSON/Motown MEI

2. HOTTER THAN JULY 948M1STEVIE WONDER/Tamla TB 373M1 27. FEEL ME(Motown) CAMEO/Chocolate City CCLP 2016

3. THE TWO OF US (PolyGram)YARBROUGH & PEOPLES/Mercury SRM 28. AUTOAMERICAN

1 3334 (PolyGram) BLONDIE/Chrysalis CHE 12904. FANTASTIC VOYAGE 29. KANO

LAKESIDE/Solar BXL1 3720 (RCA) Emergency EMLP 7505

5. IMAGINATIONWHISPERS/Solar BZL1 3578 (RCA)

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TO LOVE AGAINDIANA ROSS/Motown M8 951M1GAUCHO

6. CELEBRATE STEELY DAN/MCA 6102KOOL & THE GANG/De-Lite DSR 9518

(PolyGram) 32. LICENSE TO DREAMKLEEER/Atlantic SD 19288

7. IN OUR LIFETIME 33. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING BETTERMARVIN GAYE/Tamla T8 474M1 B.B. KING/MCA 5162

(Motown) 34. GUILTY8. STONE JAM BARBRA STREISAND/Columbia FC 36750

SLAVE/Cotillion SD 5224 (AII) 35. DIRTY MIND9. WINELIGHT PRINCE/Warner Bros. BSK 3478

GROVER WASHINGTON, JR./Elektra6E 305 36. AT PEACE WITH WOMAN

JONES GIRLS/Phila. Intl. JZ 36767 (CBS)10. MAGIC 37. LOVE ISTOM BROWNE/Arista/GRP 5503 ONE WAY/MCA 516311. THREE FOR LOVE 38. RADIANTSHALAMAR/Solar BZL1 3577 (RCA) ATLANTIC STARR/A&M SP 483312. TOUCH

CON FUNK SHUN/Mercury SRM 1 4002(PolyGram)

39. I HAD TO SAY ITMILLIE JACKSON/Spring SP 1 6730

(PolyGram)13. ALL AMERICAN GIRLS 40. ELOISE LAWS

SISTER SLEDGE/Cotillion SD 16027 (At!) Liberty LT 160314. TRIUMPH 41. 'NARDJACKSONS/Epic FE 36424 BERNARD WRIGHT/Arista/GRP 501115. CITY NIGHTS 42. DEE DEETIERRA/Boardwalk FW 36995 DEE DEE SHARP GAMBLE/Phila. Intl.16. ARETHA JZ 36370 (CBS)

ARETHA FRANKLIN/Arista AL 9538 43. THE DRAMATIC WAY17. FACES DRAMATICS/MCA 5146

EARTH, WIND & FIRE/ARC/Columbia 44. ALL AROUND THE TOWNKC2 36795 BOB JAMES/Columbia/Tappan Zee18. HOUSE OF MUSIC C2X 36786

T.S. MONK/Mirage WTG 19121 (Ail) 45. TP19. SKYYPORT TEDDY PENDERGRASS/Phila. Intl. FZ

SKYY/Salsoul SA 8537 (RCA) 36745 (CBS)20. LIVE AND MORE 46. THIS IS MY DREAM

ROBERTA FLACK AND PEABO BRYSON/ SWITCH/Gordy G8 999M1 (Motown)Atlantic SD 2 7004 47. EVERYTHING IS COOL

21. AS ONE T-CONNECTION/Capitol ST 12128BAR KAYS/Mercury SRM 1 3844 48. THE BOYS ARE BACK(PolyGram) STONE CITY BAND/Gordy GB 100

22. LET'S BURN (Motown)CLARENCE CARTER/Venture VL 1005 49. IRONS IN THE FIRE

23. TURN THE HANDS OF TIME TEENA MARIE/Gordy GB 997M1PEABO BRYSON/Capitol ST 12138 (Motown)

24. BEING WITH YOU 50. IT'S JUST THE WAY I FEELSMOKEY ROBINSON/Tamla T8 375M1 GENE DUNLAP FEATURING THE

(Motown) RIDGEWAYS/Capitol ST 12130

GRAND SLAMISLEY BROTHERS -T -Neck FZ 37080 (CBS)

It's hard tothink of agroup that hasbeen as com-mercially con-sistent overthe last two

decades of popular music as theIsleys. The seven songs on thisalbum again display RonnieIsley's mastery of the love song("Tonight Is the Night (If I HadYou)", "Young Girls"), whilewhile Chris Jasper's keyboardsand Ernie Isley's lead guitar workare still captivating.

ONE WAY LOVE AFFAIRMARC SADANE-Worner Bros. BSK 3503

The productionteam of JamesMtume andReggie Lucasprovides thebacking for thedebut effort of

New Jersey -based singer MarcSadane. His throaty delivery isencased in standard Mtume-I ucas arrangements on "The Foolin Me," "One Way Love Affair"and "Sit Up," while a cover of"Standing in the Shadows ofLove" updates the Four Topsclassic.



BlaciRicorordiented SinglesTITLE, ARTIST, Label, Number, (Distributing Label)MAR. FEB.

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1 1 DON'T STOP THE MUSICYARBROUGH & PEOPLESMercury 76085 (PolyGram)(3rd Week)

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2 2 BURN RUBBER GAP BAND/Mercury 76091 (PolyGram) 11

El 3 IT'S A LOVE THING WHISPERS/Solar 12154 (RCA) 8

4 4 FANTASTIC VOYAGE LAKESIDE/Solar 12129 (RCA) 14

Q 8 WATCHING YOU SLAVE/Cotillion 46006 (Atl) 11


7 5 I JUST LOVE THE MAN JONES GIRLS/Phila. Intl. 6 3121(CBS)

8 7 CELEBRATION KOOL & THE GANG/De-Lite 807 (PolyGram) 19

113 12 THIGHS HIGH (GRIP YOUR HIPS AND MOVE) TOM

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BROWNE/Arista/GRP 2510 7

11 ALL AMERICAN GIRLS SISTER SLEDGE/Cotillion 46007 (Atl) 6

9 I AIN'T GONNA STAND FOR IT STEVIE WONDER/Tamla54320 (Motown) 10

12 10 TOO TIGHT CON FUNK SHUN/Mercury 76089 (PolyGram) 14

13 13 8TH WONDER SUGARHILL GANG/Sugarhill 753 10

En 19 BON BON VIE (GIMME THE GOOD LIFE) T.S. MONK/Mirage 3780 (Atl) 8

15 14 BOOGIE BODY LAND BAR-KAYS/Mercury 76088 (PolyGram) 1316 17 WHO SAID? ISLEY BROTHERS/T-Neck 6 2293 (CBS) 9

27 SUKIYAKI A TASTE OF HONEY/Capitol 4953 5

30 BEING WITH YOU SMOKEY ROBINSON/Tamla 54321(Motown) 4

El 29 JUST THE TWO OF US GROVER WASHINGTON, JR./

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AND LOVE GOES ON EARTH, WIND & FIRE/ARC/Columbia11 11434 5

PERFECT FIT JERRY KNIGHT/A&M 2304 5

FANCY DANCER TWENNYNINE FEATURING LENNY WHITE/Elektra 47087 8

I HEAR MUSIC IN THE STREETS UNLIMITED TOUCH/Prelude 8023 9

MAKE THE WORLD STAND STILL ROBERTA FLACK ANDPEABO BRYSON/Atlantic 3775 12

HOW 'BOUT US CHAMPAIGN/Columbia 11 11433 5

HERE'S TO YOU SKYY/Salsoul 2132 (RCA) 10

HEARTBREAK HOTEL JACKSONS/Epic 9 50959 13

MAGIC MAN ROBERT WINTERS & FALL/Buddah 624 (Arista) 6

4EVERYTHING IS COOL T-CONNECTION/Capitol 4968YOU'RE TOO LATE FANTASY/Pavillion 6 6407 (CBS) 5

Al NO CORRIDA QUINCY JONES/A&M 2309 3

YOU'RE THE BEST THING IN MY LIFE DRAMATICS/MCA51041 9

LOVE CALLING ZINGARA/Wheel 5001 8

UNITED TOGETHER ARETHA FRANKLIN/Arista 0569 15

LOVE OVER AND OVER AGAIN SWITH/Gordy 7193(Motown) 16

REMOTE CONTROL REDDINGS/Believe in a Dream 9 5600(CBS) 20

WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES ARETHA FRANKLIN/Arista 0591 3

MARCH 7, 1981

38 34 MELANCHOLY FIRE NORMAN CONNORS/Arista 0581 1239 38 DANCE SILVER PLATINUM/Spector Intl. 00009 (Capitol) 9

46 LOVERS AFTER ALL MELISSA MANCHESTER AND PEABOBRYSON/Arista 0587 4

El48 FEEL ME CAMEO/Chocolate City 3222 (PolyGram) 3

54 RAPTURE BLONDIE/Chrysalis 2485 443 40 FULL OF FIRE SHALAMAR/Solar 12152 (RCA) 8

El60 WHEN LOVE CALLS ATLANTIC STARR/A&M 2312 2

52 PRAISE MARVIN GAYE/Tamla 54322 (Motown) 3

al 53 TAKE IT TO THE TOP KOOL & THE GANG/De-Lite 810(PolyGram) 2

47 44 I'M READY KANO/Emergency 4504 15

ED 59 ONE WAY LOVE AFFAIR SADANE/Warner Bros. 49663 249 37 BE ALRIGHT (PART I) ZAPP/Warner Bros. 49623 8

61 BE YOURSELF DEBRA LAWS/Elektra 47084 2

ED 56 HAVE YOU SEEN HER CHI-LITES/20th Century Fox/Chi -Sound 2481 (RCA) 3

ED 64 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP PATRICE RUSHEN/Elektra47113 2

M 62 YOU LIKE ME DON'T YOU? JERMAINE JACKSON/Motown1503 2

ED 65 MEDLEY: YESTERDAY ONCE MORE/NOTHING REMAINSTHE SAME SPINNERS/Atlantic 3798 2

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SHORT STUFF: RCA and Solar just finished discussions about thisyear's 50 -city -plus tour of artists on Dick Griffey's label, suggestingthat Solar's oft -reported defection to Elektra may have just been wish-ful thinking on the part of some ... Prelude is planning to showcaseits entire roster of R&B-disco artists at New York's Funhouse discolater this month with an eye toward a Solar -type package tour thisspring... People are talking about the subtly suggestive cover of TomBrowne's "Magic" album. It seems the more you look at Browne'stwo female companions the more you see ...Tierra's stage presenceand ensemble vocals are impressing east coasters during their firstconcert appearances here ... Even if Diana Ross hasn't signed thatwidely rumored contract with Boardwalk Records, Motown's releaseof what is basically an oldies album on her suggest a parting may beimminent. Marvin Gaye is also said to be looking to move on. Hardto image a Motown without Ross or Gaye, but it could happen ... Is

- WHAT TWO CAN DO DENIECE WILLIAMS/ARC/Columbia

-6355-4243 LOVE T.K.O. TEDDY PENDERGRASS/Phila. Intl. 9 3116 (CBS) 19- WHERE DID I GO WRONG HEATWAVE/Epic 51005 1- I WANT IT REDDINGS/Believe in a Dream 6 5602 (CBS) 1

41 GLAD YOU CAME MY WAY JOE SIMON/Posse 5005 950 I AIN'T JIVIN', I'M JAMMIN' LEON HUFF/Phila. Intl.

63122 (CBS) 8

45 SHINE ON LTD/A&M 2283 15

- MOMENT OF WEAKNESS ENCHANTMENT/RCA 12163 1

70 CAN YOU HANDLE IT SHARON REDD/Prelude 8024 3

66 NEVER LIKE THIS TWO TONS/Fantasy/Honey 906 4

- DON'T BE ASHAMED TO CALL MY NAME BOHANNON/Phase II 8 5654 1

47 WHAT WE HAVE IS RIGHT BLACKBYRDS/Fantasy 904 9

71 MESSING WITH MY MIND LENNY WILLIAMS/MCA 51033 7

51 I'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER (FIND ANOTHER LIKE YOU)MANHATTANS/Columbia 11 11398 16

57 LOOK UP PATRICE RUSHEN/Elektra 47067 17

60504 1

GET TOUGH KLEEER/Atlantic 3788 1

FEELIN' CAMERON/Sa !soul 2134 (RCA) 2PASSION ROD STEWART/Warner Bros. 49617 11

A WOMAN NEEDS LOVE (JUST LIKE YOU DO) RAYPARKER JR. & RAYDIO/Arista 0592 1

KEEP IT HOT CAMEO/Chocolate City 3219 (PolyGram) 17

Lenny White looking to leave Elektra for a home back east? I wouldn'tdoubt it.

BLACK CHART ACTION: The upper reaches of the black albumchart were remarkably stable this week. The only new top 10 entryis Tom Browne (#21 to #10), while Sister Sledge showed strength(#22 to #13). Short gains were made by Blondie (#31 to #28).Kleeer (#34 to #32), and B.B. King (#35 to #33). The biggest leapof the week was by Peabo Bryson's "Turn the Hands of Time," whichmoved 27 places (#50 to #23).

On the singles scene two Cotillion acts, Slave (#8 to #5) and SisterSledge (#11 to #10), made noise in the top ten. T.S. Monk (#19 to#14), Jerry Knight (#25 to #21), Taste of Honey (#27 to #17), GroverWashington (#29 to #19), Smokey Robinson (#30 to #18), ArethaFranklin (#49 to #37), Blondie (#54 to #42), and Atlantic Starr (#60to #44) were the prime movers.



Silver Bullets Go Gold

Capitol recording artists Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band were recently presentedwith gold discs for sales in excess of 100,000 copies of the "Stranger In Town" LPin the United Kingdom. The gold discs, Seger's first in the UK, were presented back-stage following his sold -out shows at the Wembley Arena. Pictured from left are: DrewAbott, Silver Bullet Band; Kick Klimbie, director, European operations, Capitol Inter-national; Chris Campbell and David Teegarden, Silver Bullet Band; Martyn Cox,general manager, Capitol UK; Seger; Helmut Fest, vice president, Capitol International;and Alto Reed, Silver Bullet Band.

GermanyBy JIM SAMPSON

MUNICH -A recent closed meeting of record company lawyersin Hamburg focused on two issues of vital concern to the industry:the negotiations between record companies and GEMA on a newmechanical royalty rate, and recent European Court cases affectingEuropean Community commerce in recordings. The two subjects areintertwined. In the landmark "GEMA vs. Membran" case, the Euro-pean Court effectively lifted territorial copyright restrictions withinthe E.C., meaning that records from Greece may be imported intoGermany without GEMA authorized to collect an offset mechanicalroyalty differential on the much higher GEMA rate. This will giveimports from low -rate countries (Greece, Ireland) a competitive ad-vantage in high -rate countries (Germany, U.K.). So GEMA's positionin the current negotiations has been weakened, a first indication ofthe tangible implications for copyright holders of the "GEMA vs.Membran" ruling. The next crucial European Court decision in thisarea, "Polydor vs. Harlequin," could open the E.C. to imports fromover 100 "associated" nations, mostly in the third world.

EMI, POLIGRAM SET VIDEO LAUNCH: EMI Electrola video headFriedel Schilken says the Cologne firm will soon announce detailsof its spring videocassette marketing campaign. He also confirmedthat EMI Electrola is working hard on development of the JVC-systemvideodisc. A demonstration is set for the Berlin Audio/Video Fairin September, with disc marketing expected in mid to late 1982.Meanwhile, former PolyGram Publishing executive Goetz Kiso is

setting up PolyGram Video Germany (PVG), based at the group'sHamburg headquarters. Not a separate company but a division ofPolyGram GmbH, PVG will have its own program, sales and distribu-tion operations, completely separate from PolyGram Record Opera-tions. PolyGram also is aiming for an April start with videocassettemarketing, but expect PolyGram video discs much sooner than EMI.The U.K. launch is set for summer, and the continent could followlater this year.

WHO, DEAD PLAY EUROPE: WDR-TV producer Peter Ruechel con-firms that the Grateful Dead will join the Who on the "Rockpalast"live midnight concert, aired from Essen, Germany, to at least 11Euromarkets including the U.K., France, Scandinavia and Italy. Anestimated 35 million will watch the open-ended show on March28 and 29.

BRAEUNLICH CELEBRATES 25: Teldec PR head Guenther Braeun-lich passed two milestones earlier this year-his 55th birthday andhis 25th year with Teldec. Since 1956, he has advanced from adver-tising manager to press/promotion chief and finally head of PRoperations. That his office is next to MD Gerhard Schulze is no co-incidence, but rather an indication of his value to the company andindeed (as head of the industry's 100th anniversary celebration in1977) to the entire German record industry.

EnglandBy VAL FALLOON

IM LONDON-Despite the industry veto, Island Records is carryingon with its "One Plus One" cassette series. Three new tapes arebeing released this week with one side recorded music, the otherside blank. Artists are J.J. Cale, Bunny Wailer and Todd Rundgren. . . However, the BPI has new problems on its plate this week: Themechanical rights society is accusing three majors-EMI, WEA andRCA-of bending the rules on the temporary agreement reachedbetween the MRS and record companies on royalty payments. Theproblem arose when most companies scrapped recommended retailprices, the basis on which royalty rates are calculated, and a newinterim agreement was struck. A start date for the new rates wasagreed pending the results of a survey of record prices (to be pub-lished in June) but Bob Montgomery, MRS general administrator,has accused the three companies of backdating the new, lowerrates to well before the agreed start -date. EMI had no comment tomake apart from noting they have received a letter from the MRSand were replying to it and hoping an amicable conclusion wouldbe reached . . . RCA Records, having raised its prices at Christmaswhen everyone else was lowering theirs, has now offered retailersa new deal including discounts for bulk orders and reduction indealer price for the deluxe series, on some titles. The company'snew MD Don Ellis restructured the pricing system after talking to


Japan(This column appears courtesy of Original Confidence magazine)

By CARMEN ITOH TOYKO-Tower Records Shibuya, a retail record shop, will openon March 6 under the direct management of Tower Records. Sincethe establishment of a branch office in Tokyo in 79, Tower has beendoing strictly wholesale business. The opening of the rtail importedrecord shop in Tokyo is the result of a change in policy intended toexpand their business.

Last year Tower Records opened a direct management shop inSapporo on an experimental basis. Tower Records Shibuya, however,will be on a much larger scale. They plan to always have on stockover 100,000 pieces, featuring a variety of music ranging from jazz torock to classical music. Tower president Russ Solomon encouragedthe staff enthusiastically when he visited Japan at the end of January.

Anarchy will go to London to record their third album. Anarchy is afive -man Japanese punk band, much influenced by the Sex Pistols andthe Clash, whose ironic lyrics usually attack the establishment. Withreggae artist Mikey Dread as their producer, recording will start onMarch 9 at the Air Studio.

Richard Clayderman made his third visit to Tokyo in early February.Unlike his previous trips to Japan, which were concert tours, this visitwas by special invitation by TV Asahi. The reason is that one of thesongs from Richard's newest album, "Concert Pour Une Jeune FilleNommee Je T'aime," is being used as a theme song in the TV Asahi'sdrama "Gogo No Tabitachi." "Triste Coeur," used as a theme song,brought such favorable response from the viewers that Richard wasinvited by TV Asahi to perform as a pianist in the drama.

On top of this, Richard signed an exclusive contract with C'bonCosmetics to do a commercial for them. "Ballade Pour Adeline" and"Concert Pour Une Jeune Fille Nommee Je T'aime" are used in thecommercial, which has been on the air since Feb. 15. In addition,"Acomme Amour" is being used as the theme song for a TBS-TVprogram called "Ai no Kassoro."

Since 1977, seven albums by Clayderman, including two antholo-gies, have been sold here. Among these, "The Best Of Richard Clay-derman" was the biggest hit, selling more than 400,000 copies. OnFeb. 16, Clayderman's latest album made its first appearance on thealbum chart at #46. He will be back in July for 40 concerts.

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CanadaBy LARRY LeBLANC

TORONTO-Producer Bob Ezrin will produce the second TorontoLP for the Solid Gold label upon completion of his sessions withMurray McLauchlan in L A Jesse Winchester has completed anew LP for Bearsville titled "Talk Memphis" and produced by R&Bveteran Willie Mitchell . . . WEA Canada will release a French singleby Elton John and Frances Guy . . . Nancy Ward, formerly withTranquility Base and Sylvia Tyson, has recorded her debut LP withFrancois Dompierre serving as arranger/producer . . . Phil Collinsis in town for a string of interviews and "listening sessions" promotinghis LP "Face Value" . . . Hometowners are pleased that Rush willplay in town March 23 and 24 at Maple Leaf Gardens. Opening ispowerhouse trio FM . . . New national entertainment tabloid "Angel"has issued its first issue. Publisher/managing editor is Joyce Barslow.Mailing address is: 65 Helena Ave., Toronto, Ontario M6G 2H3. Tele-phone: (416) 652-1302 ... Freedom Records hosted a party at Head -space this week for its first signing, BBC. The occasion was aired onCHUM -FM . . . One of Canada's foremost chamber ensembles, theOrford String Quartet, has announced their participation in an out-standing music series. The quartet will perform with pianist AndreGagnon on March 13, Moe Koffman on April 10 and opera singerMaureen Forrester on May 15. All shows are at Convocation Hall inToronto . . . Vancouver band Chilliwack has signed with Solid Goldand is currently working on an LP in Vancouver with leader Bill Hen-derson producing . . . Attic Records has bought rights to DutchMason's "Wish Me Luck" LP, originally released by London Records.. . . Grand Entertainment will release a childrens' LP, "Triangulos."by John Gibb, recorded at Morgan Earl Sound . . . New entertain-ment editor at Maclean's magazine is Ann Johnston ... Big -circulationToday magazine has scheduled profiles on the Rovers, Marie Bottrell,Raffi and Murray McLauchlan.

England (Continued from page 35)

several complaining dealers . . . This week RCA let go its longtimepress chief Shirlie Stone, leaving the staff to cope with the ever-increasing roster, now around 150 acts. A recent wave of artistsignings and label deals has brought this sudden surge of talentinto the fold of the troubled major. Until a new press chief is ap-pointed, two people are busily publicizing 75 acts each.

AUSSIE INVASION: With Joe Dolce's Epic number one hit,"Shaddup You Face" awarded a silver disc, EMI is closely watchingits own down -under hit by Slim Dusty, "I'd Like To Have a BeerWith Duncan," released here last week. Australia's top country per-former, and a national institution, Slim Dusty's last hit here was"A Pub with No Beer" in 1969. Curiously, "Duncan" is only hissecond U.K. release, although it is taken from his 69th LP for EMIAustralia . . . New members of Yes for a few months, Trevor Hornand Geoff Downes are back to being Buggies after parting companywith the supergroup.

VIDEO CHOICE: This week sees the launch of the U.K.'s first"video record label," Radical Choice. U.S. choreographer/dancer/singer Toni Basil releases a single "Nobody" and a videocassetteand album "Word of Mouth" via Virgin/CBS. This is the first in a

series of video and record LP releases by the label. Radial Choice'spolicy is to develop artists with both sound and visual appeal.Basil directed and of course choreographed the video herself . . .

Simple Minds have split from Arista and signed to Virgin Recordsfor the world. The reason given was "Arista has Barry Manilow andthe label wasn't big enough for both of us" . . . Motown rushingthe new Diana Ross album "To Love Again" with free posters forthe first 30,000. This is shortly after the new Marvin Gaye "In OurLifetime" album, part of which was recorded in London last year. . . A&M putting its muscle behind a Rita Coolidge compilation forTV and the Rupert Hine debut LP for the label, "Immunity" . . .

Touring here soon are Glen Campbell (April), Tom Waits and theClimax Blues Band (this month), but Billie Jo Spears is out of thecountry music festival following a clash over her other U.K. dates. . . Phonogram issuing a series of midprice cassette -only releaseswith top tracks from artists like Rod Stewart, 10CC and Status Quo. . . Interesting results from new partnership of Robin Trower andJack Bruce on Chrysalis "BLT" album . . . Still no news of managingdirector for WEA Records U K But good news from the BBCdespite needletime cutbacks last year: the local station Radio Londonhas increased its music content from thirty percent to fifty percent.

The Coast (Continued from page 19)and the inevitable proclamation of "Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Day"from Mayor Bradley which, as always, sounded suspiciously as if ithad been written by a local press agent. And to cap it off, Ms. Man-drel! wheeled out a massive cake aflame with 50 candles and shapedlike-what else-a cowboy boot. The late Trigger, notorious for hissweet tooth, would have loved it, but he was too stuffed to eat a thing.

A ROYAL FLUSH: Queen drummer Roger Taylor seemed to beeverywhere during his brief stay last week in Los Angeles, where theband pulled in for a pit stop between tours of Japan and SouthAmerica. During his few days in town, Roger managed to log timeat Cherokee Studios with guitarist Micki Free, and word has it thathe'll be adding the latter's debut LP to a growing list of productionprojects. We finally caught up with Roger at the Gary Myrick andThe Figures -Great Buildings concert at Pasadena's Perkins Palace,where he denied rumors that he'll soon be producing Myrick's secondalbum ("we're just friends, honestly") and lamented the lack of labelinterest in a Blasters LP.

Everybody knows how much trouble rock n' rollers have blowingoff steam these days, so you can imagine the collective sigh of reliefbreathed in Hollywood when The Central, a new-ish Sunset Blvd.club, instituted a regular Tuesday night jam session. The ritual isdubbed "Bob and Keith Jam Night," named somewhat immodestlyby the club's booker and manager, and has boasted a number ofnotable aggregations. Musicians who have already graced the stageon those occasions have included Chas. Sanford, Jimmy Rabbitt, IanWallace, Graham Bell, Jackie Lomax, Peter Banks, Richard Ddelman,Phil Kenzie many ether rock journeymen too numerous to name.Audiences have included celebs like Donna Summer and Rod Stewart,in addition to enthusiastic local fans. Sounds like it might be fun ...Bob Dylan sent a bouquet of red and yellow roses over to PolyGramRecords' offices last week by way of expressing congratulations tohis former employee Suzanne Kaplan, who joined PolyGram recentlyas west coast a&r coordinator, working with John Stainze. Given theprice of roses lately, the best we can do is wish her good luck.

NewYork, N.Y. (Continued from page 17)record of 1980," when in fact the LP was released in 1979. Well, astime goes by memory fades and mistakes are made. Whatta ya gonnado? So make Joe Ely's "Live Shots" the best country record of 1980,Rosanne Cash's first the best of '79. And if anyone knows the yearmy son was born please tell me so I can get the number right on hisnext birthday cake.

AUSTIN, NICHOLS & CO., makers of Wild Turkey Bourbon, hosteda private reception at Carnegie Hall last Thursday (19) to announcethe first Wild Turkey Festival of Country Music, scheduled to takeplace at Carnegie on May 13. Headlining will be Roy Acuff on a billalso featuring Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, the Stony MountainCloggers and Cabin Fever, winners of the 1980 national search forthe country stars of the future.

Tickets for the festival are: $20 parquet, $17.50 first and secondtier, $15 dress circle and $12.50-$10 balcony.

JOCKEY SHORTS: ATI's Jeff Franklin is currently in Mongolia withMike Burke of Madison Square Garden; Bob Shipstead, former pro-ducer of "Ice Follies"; Richard Duryea, Franklin's partner; and CarrieFranklin, Jeff's wife and a special assistant on this venture, concludingarrangements to bring the Chinese Mongolian Horseman Show to tieStates as part of the reciprocal agreement with the country wherebyFranklin brought a rodeo to Mongolia. Of late Franklin has also beenseen frequently tete-a-tete with Charles Koppelman and Martin Ban-dier of the Entertainment Corp. Make of it what you will . . . theChieftains began a 17 -city tour of the U.S. on February 22 at theAustin Opera House. The group is due in New York, at Avery FisherHall, on March 8 . . . Karla DeVito, Linda Ronstadt's understudy in"Pirates of Penzance," is now doing the show's matinee perform-ances . .. Studio action: Louis Johnson of the Brothers Johnson, whorecently produced Passage's A&M debut LP, is producing the Brothers'next for May or June release . . . Hilly Michaels is recording a newalbum at Right Track Studio. Michaels is co -producing with JerryLesser . . . the Dregs are completing their second Arista album atAxis Sound Studios in Atlanta. Dregs' guitarist Steve Morse is produc-ing . . . at Soundmixers: Rex Smith working on his next ColumbiaLP with producer Rick Chertoff; Bernard Purdie is producing his ownsolo album at Soundmixers, with musical assistance from Dizzy Gil-lespie, Grover Washington Jr., Tito Puente and the Sweet Inspirations. . . "Jazz at Six" has moved to Eddie Condon's at 144 West 54thStreet. Every Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. the Bill andGeorge Simon Quintet holds forth.



Sky Rocks Westminster AbbeyBy VAL FALLOON

LONDON - Ariola band Skythis week became the first rockgroup to perform at historic West-minster Abbey, with its AmnestyInternational benefit concert heldon February 24.

The sold -out concert was re-corded by BBC Television for aspecial in the near future and cre-ated a great deal of internationalinterest, partly for the 20th anni-versary of Amnesty Intl., butmainly for promoter Martin Lewis'coup in obtaining the Abbey asa rock venue. It is also the firstmusic show to be recorded forTV in the Abbey, more accus-tomed to royal weddings andcoronations. Ironically, it was thenews of Prince Charles' engage-ment to Lady Diana Spencer thatkept the news of the precedent -setting concert off the front pages.

Unique Style

Sky, platinum LP sellers about'to release a third album, have be-come established with theirunique rock fusion style. Predict-ably, though, the Abbey's acous-tics proved to be hardly suited torock; the softer and classical -adaptation numbers were per-fectly balanced and best receivedduring the 90 -minute concert.Video screens around the Abbeyprovided a view for those unableto see the specially -erected stage,and the building's curious sounddelay effect meant long periodsof applause rolling back and forththrough the ancient aisles. Theunique setting no doubt inhibitedthe usually wildly enthusiasticSky audience, but the performers,including newcomer Steve Gray(replacing Francis Monkman)

demonstrated their individualskills and once again surprisedskeptics with their ability to com-bine all types of music and mu-sicianship to provide a cohesive(if uncategorizable) style. Sky(started almost as a hobby twoyears ago, particularly from clas-sical guitarist John Williams'point of view), has become a su-pergroup, but rarely alfows superinstrumental skills to interferewith the prime purpose of enter-tainment. Guitarist Kevin Peekand tuba/bass player Herbie Flow-ers' particular brand of lunacy wasthankfully not at all adapted tothe formidable surroundings.

The band, incidentally, per-formed free, and judging by thesmiles on the faces of the Deanof Westminster, the Very Rever-end Dr. Edward Carpanter, theAbbey staff and the gleeful West-minster choirboys, the concertwas much more than just a suc-cessful fundraiser.

CBS Intl. Taps Alexander NEW YORK - Steve Diener,executive vice president, creativeoperations, Latin American Oper-ations, CBS Records International,has announced the appointmentof Phil Alexander to the positionof associate director, artist devel-opment (A&M Records), LatinAmerican Operations.

In this position, Alexander willbe in charge of coordinating theday-to-day sales and marketingactivities of A&M product be-tween LAO and Latin Americansubsidiaries.

Alexander joins LAO afterworking with CRI in New Yorkin product management.

Gary U.S. Bonds to EMI America

Jim Mazza, president of EMI America/Liberty Records, has announced the signing ofGary U.S. Bonds to EMI America. Bonds, who has sold over 10 million records withsuch hits as "Quarter To Three," "New Orleans" and "School Is Out," has an albumentitled "Dedication," set for April release. Pictured at the signing in L.A. are, fromleft: Dick Williams, VP, promotion, EMIA/Liberty; Joe Petrone, VP, marketing, EMIA/Liberty; John Apostol, Bonds' manager; Mark Levinson, VP, business affairs, EMIA/Liberty; Gary U.S. Bonds; Jim Mazza; Miami Steve Van Zandt, co -producer of Bonds'LP; Frenchy Gauthier, director, merchandising, EMIA/Liberty; Gary Gersh, ABB, EMIA/Liberty; Don Grierson, VP, A&R, EMIA/Liberty; Clay Baxter, director, artist development,EMIA/Liberty; and Ken Benson, director, album promotion, EMIA/Liberty; (kneeling)Ben Edmonds, A&R, EMIA/Liberty; and Gary W. Tallent, associate producer for theBonds project.

CBS, PolyGram Price Changes(Continued from page 3)this are two -disc sets prefixedC2X and S2X, which will bechanged from $9.98 to $13.98.Soundtracks and original cast al-bums on the CBS labels, exceptthose with an SW prefix, will beraised to $9.98.

Other price changes announcedby CBS include: all single discMasterworks selections and theirtape counterparts will carry a sug-gested list price of $9.98, andmulti -disc Masterworks releaseswill be adjusted accordingly; alleconomy line LPs and tapes willgo from $4.98 to $5.98, withdouble disc economy line albumand tape packages carrying a sug-gested list of $9.98. Various spe-cially -priced two -disc sets previ-ously priced at $11.98 will nowhave a suggested list of $13.98.

Exchange policy modificationsfind retailers' annual returns per-centage reduced from 20 percentto 18 percent; by contrast, subdis-tributors' rates will be increasedthree percent, to 23 percent. Ac-counts involved in both wholesaleand retail will earn an exchangepercentage pro -rated on their in-volvement in each category. Ac-counts will be credited at the newprice on all goods returned asterMarch 27.

CBS announced that releases inits New and Developing ArtistsProgram will continue to be soldon a 100 percent return basis. AllChristmas releases will be sold ona 50 percent exchangeable basis,and all limited editions will con-tinue to be sold on a nonreturn-able basis.

Citing increasing packaging andshipment costs, CBS also an-nounced an increase in pick, packand ship charges to 10 cents perunit. The ship charge applies toorders of less than 90 disc ortape units and to any order re-quiring pre -packing and dropshipment to wholly -owned indi-vidual outlets of retail chains. Thecharges do not apply to free goodsprograms offered by the com-pany.

Unaffected by the pick, packand ship increases are releasesfrom the New and DevelopingArtists Program, Masterworks, Cd-yssey, seven-inch singles and freegoods.

Bruce Lundvall, president, CBSRecords Division, issued the fol-lowing statement concerning thelatest price changes: "CBS Rec-ords has taken an imaginative,dynamic approach in revising itsexchange policy. We believe thatthese modifications will have astrong stabilizing effect on therecord industry as a whole."

Retailers reacted largely in thenegative to the news of the in-creases. Feeling that the higherprices offer yet another barrier to

breaking new artists, dealers con-tacted by Record World agreedthat CBS's exchange policy modi-fication will result in more cau-tious buying, particularly on newand untested product, in an effortto stay at or drop to the 18 per-cent mark.

Beyond this, retailers questionthe practice of giving rack ac-counts a five percent advantageon returns. Said Barrie Bergmanof Record Bar: "Does CBS thinkHandleman and Pickwick andLieberman are going to be theonly record dealers left? That re-tailers are going to go away? Itwon't happen. At this point in therecord industry a policy such asthis one is so patently unfair toretailers that it's unthinkable."

Waxie Maxie's Ken Dobinpointed out that the 18 percentfigure is "very, very difficult tomaintain," but added that theD.C.-based chain has been aroundthat mark consistently. In keepingreturns at the low figure, though,Dobin said Waxie Maxie finds itnecessary to "take far less chanceson a new album. With the policychange we'll probably only go forsure things."

National Record Mart's GeorgeBalicky bemoaned the timing ofthe price hikes as inopportune."Business has been picking upand then along comes another in-flationary -type hit," he said."We've been gradually turningthings around the last couple ofyears-'we' being the record in-dustry-and just when we're start-ing to move forward, prices goup."

Balicky also expressed concernover the fate of the LPs movingup from $4.98 to $5.98. "I thinkCBS might kill the line with thatmove. You're talking about fivedollars at the retail level and I

don't think the product is strongenough to stand up at that price.Much of that line will be de-stroyed by the higher price."

Because the chain set out longago to reduce returns by buyingcautiously, Poplar Tunes in Mem-phis, according to Jim Burge, isin "real good shape. We've tight-ened up tremendously by cuttingback on new artists and classicalproduct. We eliminated one-thirdof our returns immediately bydoing that. So this new announce-ment doesn't have much effecton us."

"The real problem," Burge con-tinued, "is that consumers arestupid enough not to protest.They scream at us, then wediscount the product for them,which is real stupid. We ought tosell at list, and then the consumercan directly affect the manufac-turers' profits by not buying. Butit won't happen."

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Portnow(Continued from page 19)television and movies, are signifi-cant, and Fox as a corporation hasin mind expansion, not retrench-ing," a philosophy that certainlyincludes the record division.

The relationship with Fox cor-porate should work to the label'sadvantage, Portnow continued."We're associated with one of themajor movie and TV productionoutfits in the world, and the avail-ability of materials from thatsource is something that no othercompany can provide. We haven'tdelivered a 'Saturday Night Fever'soundtrack yet, but the oppor-tunities are there."

As for the arrangement withRCA, "it has many aspects thathave worked, and continue towork. It has other areas that pro-vide certain difficulties, but I

don't see any of them as beinginsurmountable."

20th is also handled by RCA ona worldwide basis. According toPortnow, that has presented someproblems -problems not uniqueto 20th -simply because "yourinitial contact is through an inter-national department in the UnitedStates; generally, your product isfiltered through that way and thenout to the rest of the world. Thathas not been sufficient for us toget the kind of attention that I

feel we need." In order to im-prove the situation, Portnow hasgiven the label's Mort Weiner in-ternational responsibilities in ad-dition to Weiner's domestic salesand merchandising duties, whichhas helped achieve successabroad for Stephanie Mills, LeonHaywood and others.

Portnow maintained a fairlycautious posture in regard tovideo exploitation of 20th Cen-tury acts -video is "a terrific pro-motional tool," he said, but "ittakes special kinds of acts to suc-ceed in that marketplace" and"we're not ready to identify ex-actly what kind of vehicle we'regoing to use for any specific act."

With a background that in-cludes work as a musician, pro-ducer, publisher and A&R man,Portnow is certainly what hecalled "a music person running amusic company," a breed that isincreasingly rare these days.Nevertheless, he recognizes theneed for a balance of creative andpractical personnel in any recordoperation. "You have to walk athin line," he said. "There are alot of creative people who don'thave the business chops, or theexperience, or the thick skin that'srequired. Those of us who arecreative and want to be involvedin management have to take arealistic attitude: it's a business,and it does have to do with dol-lars and cents. If you can integratethat with your creative sensibil-ities, then you have success."

Goody Trial (Continued from page 3)

ruary, 1979.While lawyers for the Goody

chain and the government werearguing the admissability of mem-oranda resulting from the auditit was revealed that the Ameri-can Can auditors found severalinstances of "unusual transac-tions" in the records of theGoody chain. The auditors con-cluded that "further investigationis beyond the scope of auditingwork and (a) security agencyshould be called to look intomatters further."

According to Martin Gold, law-yer for Levy, the American Cancompany undertook the auditafter one of its board membersviewed a television program onrecord piracy and counterfeiting.According to Gold the purposeof the audit was to find out ifPickwick and Goody Inc. "hadsufficient control in the corporateframework to prevent counterfeit -

RCA Video(Continued from page 21)March 16, one week before deal-ers introduce the product to thepublic on March 22. The esti-mated cost of the advertising cam-paign is close to $20 million.

At the conclusion of the satel-lite presentation, dealers unani-mously praised RCA's presenta-tion, describing it as "the mostimpressive and extravagant debutof an electronic product" theyhad ever witnessed. AnthonyCrupi, general manager of A -CTelevision and Appliance Com-pany said he was "extremely im-pressed. This kickoff has gene-rated a lot of excitement; it wasvery professional."

Yara de Almeida, owner of Nel'sTV Audio video Center in Dan-bury, Connecticut added, "I thinkthe RCA discplayer is fantastic,and one of the best things aboutit is the low cost of the software.Let's put it this way: I have morecustomers waiting for the disc -player than the tape player."

Some dealers were more skep-tical about the consumer's initialacceptance of a new video system.Ken Delvecchio of Algene's TV& Appliance in Trumbell Connec-ticut said, "Eventually, the intenseadvertising campaign is bound tobrainwash the consumer, but I

can't help wondering whether thepublic will be put off by the factthat the discplayer cannot re-cord."

According to Arthur Sarnoff ofBruno New York, Inc., a privatedistributor for RCA for the Con-necticut, New Jersey and NewYork City area, "Dealer attend -York City area, between 400 and450 dealers will have the displaysand the systems in their stores byMarch and by August this productwill be in all of their outlets."

ing from finding its way in."While prosecutor Jacobs sub-

poenaed the records of the auditlast March, it was only recentlythat defense attorneys learned ofJacobs' intention to refer to theaudit in his opening statement,this Thursday (5).

At last week's session in theBrooklyn courtroom, Gold plead-ed that all the documents garn-ered from the audit should bedeemed inadmissable becausetheir introduction would pre-judice a jury. Gold said that ifthe records of interviews betweenauditors and Goody executiveswere exhibited, without thosereferred to on the records ques-tioned in person, it would beunfair. When Jacobs stated thateveryone referred to in the auditswould be put on the witnessstand, Gold yielded. "Jacobs willonly use the statements (from theaudits) to keep (the witnesses)honest," said Platt.

Gold was also worried thatJacobs would use the interviewsof Levy and Stolon to show twodifferent versions of goings on atthe corporate level of the Goodychain. Just how damaging thismight be for the chain was evi-dent by a portion of an interviewwith defendant Stolon that Ja-cobs referred to as an example."Stolon will deny to the auditorsthat there is any connection be-tween Pierce, Collins and Ver-ner," said Jacobs, "and Verneris going to say the opposite."Norton Verner, Spencer Pierceand Jeffrey Collins are all men-tioned as middlemen betweencounterfeiters and the Goodychain in the government's indict-ment. Verner has been grantedimmunity against prosecution.

Jacobs agreed though, not to

play one defendant's interviewfrom the audit against another's.

Left unresolved is the defense'sclaim that many of the commentsand asides by the auditors shouldnot be admissible. Brought up asan example was an auditor's com-ments about the "unusual trans-actions." While Holmes and Goldclaimed that it was mere opinionand would prejudice a jury, Ja-cobs disagreed. "The auditorsreached conclusions," said Ja-cobs. "They found the transac-tions 'unusual.' The defendantsdeviated from normal course ofbusiness at Sam Goody Inc. Theaudit goes on to say how theydid this, why the transactionswere questionable." Jacobs, stat-ing that in eleven years as a triallawyer he had only been reversedonce, said he was sure that theinformation was admissable andthat he wouldn't agree not torefer to it in his opening talk.

Platt let the issue pass, leavingopen the possibility of objectionsby the defense, and, possibly, amistrial. Asked if he would objectif Jacobs referred to "unusualtransactions" in his opening state-ment, Holmes said, "I might."

In related matters, Judge Plattturned over the remaining RIAAinvestigative field reports to Hol-mes, and also gave Holmes por-tions of the Justice Departmentmemo relating to the govern-ment's aborted investigation intoalleged price-fixing by Los An-geles -based retailers. Platt ruledlast week that the memo was re-levant to Goody's defense buthe only turned over a portion ofthe memo to Holmes, stating thatmuch of it didn't seem to be re-levant. Holmes refused to com-ment on the contents of thememo.

© The Jazz LP ChartMARCH 7, 1981 15. THIS TIME

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CLASSIC OF THE WEEK

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MOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLOETE-Mathis,Araiza, Karajan-DG Digital

ITZHAK PERLMAN PREVINPLAY A DIFFERENT KIND OF BLUES-Angel

LUCIANO PAVAROTTI: VERISMOARIAS-London Digital

VERDI: AROLDO-Caballe, Queler-1 CBS

VERD: FALSTAFF-Taddei, Karajan-Philips Digital

SAM GOODY/EAST COASTBACH: COMPLETE CANTATAS, VOL. XXVII

-Harnoncourt-TelefunkenBARTOK: DUOS-Perlman, Zukerman-

AngelBOLLNG: SUITE FOR FLUTE AND JAZZ

PIANO-Rampal, Bolling-CBSMIRELLA FRENI AND RENATA SCOTTO IN

OPERA DUETS-LondonHOROWITZ: '79-'80-RCAPAVAROTTI: VERISMO-LondonPERLMAN & PREVIN: BLUES-AngelROSSINI: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI-Horne,

Scimone-RCAVERDI: AROLDO-CBSVERDI: LA TRAVIATA-Callas, Kraus,

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KING KAROL/NEW YORKGOUNOD: MIREILLE-Freni, Plasson-

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AngelMOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLOTE-DG DigitalRAVEL: BOLERO-Slatkin-TelareROSSINI: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI-Horne,

Scimone-RCAARTHUR RUBINSTEIN PLAYS SCHUMANN,

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LAZAR BERMAN AT CARNEGIE HALL-CBS Digital

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TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO-Kremer, Maazel-DG

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CUTLER'S/NEW HAVENBOLLING: PICNIC SUITE-Lagoya, Rampal,

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PERLMAN & PREVIN: BLUES-Angel

SCHUBERT: WINTERREISE-Fischer-Dieskau, Barenboim-DG

SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 7-Haitink-London Digital

VERDI: FALSTAFF-Philips

ROSE DISCOUNT/CHICAGOBRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 5-Solti-

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GLENN GOULD: 25TH ANNIVERSARYCELEBRATION-CBS

GOUNOD: MIREILLE-Freni, Plasson-Angel

HANDEL: FIREWORKS MUSIC-Marriner-Philips

HOROWITZ: '79-'80-RCAMONTEVERDI: RITORNO D'ULISSE IN

PATRIA-Stade, Stillwell, Leppard-CBS

PERLMAN & PREVIN: BLUES-AngelSTRAVINSKY: RITE OF SPRING-Maazel-

Telarc

STRAUSS: INTERMEZZO-EMI (Import)VERDI: FALSTAFF-Philips Digital

SOUND WAREHOUSE/DALLASBELLINI: I PURITANI-Caballe, Kraus,

Muti-AngelBRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 6-Korajan

-DGJANACEK: FROM THE HOUSE OF THE

DEAD-Mackerras-LondonMOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLOETE-DG DigitalMUSSORGSKY: PICTURES AT AN

EXHIBITION-Solti-London DigitalPAVAROTTI: VERISMO-London DigitalPUCCINI: TOSCA-Ricciarelli, Carreras,

Karajan-DGSHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 7-

Haitink-LondonVERDI: FALSTAFF-Philips DigitalVERDI: RIGOLETTO-Cotrubas, Domingo,

Cappuccilli, Giulini-DG

Rossini's 'Italian Girl'By SPEIGHT JENKINS

NEW YORK - RCA's new re-cording of The Italian Girl in Al-giers (L'Italiana in Algieri) is a

delight on almost all counts. Itpresents the American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne ideally inone of her most famous parts andoffers a superb array of support-ing artists and a conductor, Clau-dio Scimone, who well under-stands Rossini's often subtleelegance.

The overwhelming reason tobuy this album is Miss Horne.From her opening "Cruda, sorte"to the bravura "Pensa alla patria"she shows that no one in theworld knows better how to singRossini. Her enormous range ofmore than two octaves is fullyexplored in this opera, and shesings it all as though every noteis in the middle of her voice.Sometimes in performance (sheis currently singing L'Italiana atthe Metropolitan) she overusesher low notes, summoning up abass sound very much in thegrand mezzo tradition. Not so onthis recording. One is struckagain and again by how smoothlyand well she ties the powerful,low area to the sweet, rich mid-dle and light, clear top. What isreally wonderful to hear is notonly her sense of rhythm andtiming but the careful way sheuses coloratura to express theconflicting feelings of Isabella.Every note, of course, is sung-not indicated, sung-but there isfar more; she makes each noteboth stand for itself and seeminextricably linked in the longline of the role, while all is han-dled with an ease that makesone forget its formidable technic-al difficulties. The ring of hervoice, its roundness, the clarity ofdiction, all are further plusses inher approach. And with Isabellaher vocal weight is ideal. She cansing heavier material, but she isso exceptional in bel canto thatfighting a Verdi orchestra seemsan awful waste of a preemptivevocal resource.

Scimone is not one of thoseconductors who seems to deferto the diva at all times. His read-ing is clear and crisp, in good belcanto style, and he grasps theelegance without which Rossinibecomes boring. L'Italiana is nota masterpiece like // Barbiere diSiviglia or Cenerentola. Manypassages, particularly in Act II,suggest a composer still learninghis trade and occasionally com-

posing in a formula manner. Thewhole scene with Taddeo, for in-stance, in which he is named anofficial of the Algerian court,rarely if ever has much affect, andit takes full staging and greatcomedians to keep the final "pa-patacci" scene-in which the Beyis seduced into eating spaghettiand ignoring all that his eyes andears tell him-from seemingeternal. If the longeurs can oc-casionally be felt on this record-ing, they are well disguised. Thelast record, incidentally, has somemarvelous arias composed byRossini for later performances ofthe opera with new singers. Theyare brilliantly realized by MissHorne and her Lindoro, ErnestoPalacio.

One of the delights of the re-cording is the use of Samuel Ra-mey as the Mustafa, the Bey ofAlgiers. Ramey, whose New Yorkcareer has so far been confinedto the City Opera, sings Rossiniwith a brilliance and charm toequal Miss Horne. No one on-stage in our time in his voicecategory is his equal in Rossini,and the evidence can be heardin this recording. Whether in therollicking "Gia d'insolito ardore"or in the quick banter of the finalscene, his voice is commanding,lyrically attractive and absolutelysolid in the coloratura. Addition-ally, one can feel from him thehumor that can make a comiccharacter a success.

The other vital character inthis 1813 comedy is, of course,the tenor, and no role is harderto cast today. Lindoro, conceivedfor tenors who sang most of theirhigh notes in a manner that wewould today call falsetto, is al-most excruciatingly high-not be-cause of its large number of highC's but because of the overallplacement of the whole vocalline at and above the break inthe tenor's voice. Add to thevocal range problems the re-quirement that the tenor be aleggiero rather than a lyric sothat he can easily and lightly han-dle the ceaseless coloratura, andone has a role that in the past15 years has defeated many. Er-nesto Palacio does not have totake it down, and he sings withdistinction. Occasionally, hisvoice takes on an edge and itis not clear how large it is, butin general his is a very pleasingand intelligent treatment of Lin -




Latin AmerRecord World

Latin Americanc Album Picks

"AMOR AMOR"JOSE JOSE-Pronto PTS 1085

Con arreglos de Pershing, R. Alvarez yen production de Jose Jose y Camilo Ses-to, este gran repertorio reafirma la popu-laridad creciente de Jose Jose. Muybuenas interpretaciones de "Insaciableamante," (Camilo Blanes) "Amor amor,"((Perez Botija) "No me digas que te vas"(A. Jaen) y "No me platiques mas." (V.Garrido)

O Great arrangements and performances by Jose Jose from Mexico.Produced by Camilo Sesto and Jose Jose, this outstanding package ofromantic ballads reaffirms the singer's popularity. "Te amo y no teamo." (L. de Ia Colina) "Insaciable amante," "A ratos," (de la Colina)others.

"CONFIDENCIAS"JOSE VELEZ-Columbia TXS 3197En production de Manuel de Ia Calva,Jose Velez se acerca mas al reconoci-miento internacional a traves de "A carao cruz," (De la Calva-Arcusa) "Procuroolvidarte," (Alejandro -Magdalena) y "Per-dOname otra vez" (De la Calva-Arcusa)incluidas aqui. El resto, comercial, perodebil.

Produced by Manuel de la Calva, Jose Velez is getting closer tointernational recognition as a winner. "A cara o cruz," "Procuro ol-vidarte" and "Perdoname otra vez" could easily make it big.

"EN VIVO DESDE EL OLYMPIADE PARIS

LOLA BELTRAN-Gas 4235Lola Beltran es, sin lugar a dudas, una delas voces mas ricas y populares de Mexi-co. Aqui se lute en "vivo" desde el Olym-pia. Repertorio que venders por siempre.Grandes "standards" como "Janitzio," (A.Lara) "La Feria de las Flores," (Ch. Monge)"Paloma Negra" (T. Mendez) y otros, nopor no mencionados, menos importantes.

Lola Beltran is, without any doubt, one the most popular singers inMexico. This album, recorded live at the Olympia, Paris, should sellforever. "La Llcrona," (D.P.) "La Borrachita," (T. Nacho) "Cielito Un-do," more.

,SerleAk Pond*, "'UNCHAINED FORCE"SONORA PONCENA-Inca JMIS 1077

Con arreglos de Papo Lucca, Wison Torresy Luis Garcia, con las voces de TonitoLedee, Yolanda Rivera y Miguelito Ortiz,esta production de Papo Lucca es una delas mejores de la Sonora Poncena. Ritmo,sabor y baile al maxim°. "Mi Lindo Yam-

(D.R.) "Huracan," (0. Barroso) "LuzNegra" (C. Alonso) y "Pensandolo Bien."(Y. Solano)

MI With arrangements by Papo Lucca, Wison Torres and Luis Garcia,this Papo Lucca salsa production of Sonora Poncelia could easily be-come one of the group's biggest hits. It's rhythmic and spicy. "Borin-quen," (J. Ortiz) "Nicka's Dream Mambo," (H. Silver) "Extasis deAmor," (D.R.) and "Huracan."

Desde Nuestro Rincon©Internacional

By TOMAS FUNDORA

(This column appears first in Spanish, then in English)

Durante su asistencia a MIDEM este ano, SamGoff, presidente de Coco Records de Nueva York,completo negociaciones para licenciar el productoComo con South American Records para Argen-tina, Uruguay y Chile, TH Records para Colombia,Palacio de Ia MCisica para Venezuela y Discos deCentroamerica para America Central. Se mantie-nen negociaciones para los territorios de Mexico,Chile, Brasil, Europa y Africa. Adicionalmente alextenso catalogo Coco, en el cual se incluyen gra-

baciones del ganador por dos ocasiones del Grammy, Eddie Palmieri,Raphael Cortijo, Jose Fajardo, Lissete y otros, Coco acaba de firmar aLarry Harlow y la Orquesta Broadway ... Se reunieron, tambien enMIDEM, las firmas que forman parte del grupo Discosa Internacional,donde profundizaron los contactos ya existentes con diferentes pro-ductores y cornparilas para la distribution de sus grabaciones en losmercados que operan las companias del grupo. Se recibieron diver-sas ofertas de empresas de vafios 'Daises hispanoamericanos para in-corporarse a Discosa Internacional. Los directivos del grupo que es-tuvieron presentes fueron: Carlos Camacho (Consejero Delegado deHelix), Esteban Garcia-Morencos (Consejero-Delegado de Zafiro), En-

rique M. Garea (Director Gerente de Columbia -Espana). Enrique Inurrieta Jr. (Vice -President Eje-cutivo de Alhambra-E.U.A.) Jose Maria Guerra Zun-zunegui (Presidente de Movieplay-Espana), Enri-que Inurrieta (Consejero Delegado de Columbia -Espana), Juan Santabaya (Consejero Delegado deMovieplay-Espana), Tomas Toral (Secretario delConsejo de Columbia), Antonio Ortega (Subdirec-tor General de Zafiro) y Gerhard Haltermann (Ge-

Jerry Jarvis rente Internacional de Columbia y CoordinadorInternacional de Discosa Internacional. Segiin los informes recibidospor este redactor, los proyectos de Discosa Internacional son en ex-tremo ambiciosos y ojala se vean favorecidos en la practica, ya que

de resultar asi, la fuerza internacional establecida,podra hacerle una competencia muy fuerte a granparte de las multinacionales, que se encuentran,en su mayoria, aquejadas del "mal de Ku" quesufren gran parte de sus rinds importantes (no porello, mas talentosos) ejecutivos.

Me comunica Joe Hochschild, Gerente deKXWM (P.O. Box 326, McFarland, California 93250)que Oscar Bibo no esta prestando sus funciones a

Pastor Lopez la estacion radial y suplica que de ahora en ade-Iante, los discos-muestras sean enviados a la empresa y no a un in-dividuo en especial. Al mismo tiempo, ruega que con cada envio dediscos, se acomparie una factura en la cual se especifique la cantidad

de discos enviados ... Doug Matthews, GerenteGeneral de KBRG Radio, (1355 Market St., SanFrancisco, Calif. 94103) anuncia el nombramientode Marcos Gutierrez, como su Director de Progra-macion y se encuentra muy interesado en recibirmuestras dirigidas a la estacion Maura Do-nohue, Directora de Eventos Especiales de WOJORadio Ambiente de Chicago, me comunica que laestacion estard celebrando su aniversario en Fe -

Louie Ramirez brero 18, fecha en la cual, Ia estacion fue a unaprogramacion de 24 horas diarias en Espanol, sirviendo a mas de unmillion de latinos en el area Metropolitana de Chicago (105 FM) atraves de sus antenas localizadas en lo alto del John Hancock Center,cubriendo un area de ocho condados de Illinois e Indiana. El exit°de la emisora ha sido en extremo espectacular y desamos felicitar-los por Ia gran labor desplegada, hecho patente en un hermoso




Record Wold is

Classical©Retail Report

MARCH 7, 1981

CLASSIC OF THE WEEK

VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

1979-80 CONCERTS

RCA

II II

BEST SELLERS OF THE WEEK

VLADIMIR HOROWITZ: 1979-80CONCERTS-RCA

MOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLOETE-Mathis,Araiza, Karajan-DG Digital

PERLMAN AND ANDRE PREVINPLAY A DIFFERENT KIND OF BLUES-Angel

LUCIANO PAVAROTTI: VERISMOARIAS-London Digital

VERDI: AROLDO-Caballe, Queler-CBS

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SAM GOODY/EAST COASTBACH: COMPLETE CANTATAS, VOL. XXVII

-Harnoncourt-TelefunkenBARTOK: DUOS-Perlman, Zukerman-

Angel

BOLLNG: SUITE FOR FLUTE AND JAZZPIANO-Rampal, Bolling-CBS

MIRELLA FRENI AND RENATA SCOTTO INOPERA DUETS-London

HOROWITZ: '79-'80-RCAPAVAROTTI: VERISMO-LondonPERLMAN & PREVIN: BLUES-AngelROSSINI: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI-Horne,

Scimone-RCAVERDI: AROLDO-CBSVERDI: LA TRAVIATA-Callas, Kraus,

Ghione-Angel

KING KAROL/NEW YORKGOUNOD: MIREILLE-Freni, Plasson-

AngelHOROWITZ: '79-'80-RCAJANACEK: FROM THE HOUSE OF THE

DEAD-Mackerras-LondonLEHAR: THE MERRY WIDOW-Wallberg-

AngelMOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLOTE-DG DigitalRAVEL: BOLERO-Slatkin-TelareROSSINI: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI-Horne,

Scimone-RCAARTHUR RUBINSTEIN PLAYS SCHUMANN,

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JAMES GALWAY PLAYS STAMITZ-RCAHOROWITZ: '79-'80-RCAMOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLOETE-DG DigitalPAVAROTTI: VERISMO-London DigitalPERLMAN & PREVIN: BLUES-AngelARTHUR RUBINSTEIN PLAYS SCHUMANN,

OTHER PIECES-RCA

TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO-Kremer, Maazel-DG

VERDI: AROLDO-CBSVERDI: FALSTAFF-Philips Digital

CUTLER'S/NEW HAVENBOLLING: PICNIC SUITE-Lagoya, Rampal,

Bolling-CBSHAYDN: THE CREATION-Marriner-

Philips

HOROWITZ: '79-'80-RCAMOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLOETE-DG DigitalMORENA-TORROBA: GUITAR CONCERTOS

-Romeros-PhilipsPAVAROTTI'S GREATEST HITS-LondonPERLMAN & PREVIN: BLUES-Angel

SCHUBERT: WINTERREISE-Fischer-Dieskau, Barerboim-DG

SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 7-Haitink-London Digital

VERDI: FALSTAFF-Philips

ROSE DISCOUNT/CHICAGOBRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 5-Solti-

London

GLENN GOULD: 25TH ANNIVERSARYCELEBRATION-CBS

GOUNOD: MIREILLE-Freni, Plasson-Angel

HANDEL: FIREWORKS MUSIC-Marriner-Philips

HOROWITZ: '79-'80-RCAMONTEVERDI: RITORNO D'ULISSE IN

PATRIA-Stade, Stillwell, Leppard-CBS

PERLMAN & PREVIN: BLUES-AngelSTRAVINSKY: RITE OF SPRING-Maazel-

Telarc

STRAUSS: INTERMEZZO-EMI (Import)VERDI: FALSTAFF-Philips Digital

SOUND WAREHOUSE/DALLASBELLINI: I PURITANI-Caballe, Kraus,

Muti-AngelBRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 6-Karajan

-DGJANACEK: FROM THE HOUSE OF THE

DEAD-Mackerras-LondonMOZART: DIE ZAUBERFLOETE-DG DigitalMUSSORGSKY: PICTURES AT AN

EXHIBITION-Solti-London DigitalPAVAROTTI: VERISMO-London DigitalPUCCINI: TOSCA-Ricciarelli, Carreras,

Karajan-DGSHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 7-

Haitink-LondonVERDI: FALSTAFF-Philips DigitalVERDI: RIGOLETTO-Cotrubas, Domingo,

Cappuccilli, Giulini-DG

NEW YORK - RCA's new re-cording of The Italian Girl in Al-giers (L'Italiana in Algieri) is a

delight on almost all counts. Itpresents the American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne ideally inone of her most famous parts andoffers a superb array of support-ing artists and a conductor, Clau-dio Scimone, who well under-stands Rossini's often subtleelegance.

The overwhelming reason tobuy this album is Miss Horne.From her opening "Cruda, sorte"to the bravura "Pensa alla patria"she shows that no one in theworld knows better how to singRossini. Her enormous range ofmore than two octaves is fullyexplored in this opera, and shesings it all as though every noteis in the middle of her voice.Sometimes in performance (sheis currently singing L'Italiana atthe Metropolitan) she overusesher low notes, summoning up abass sound very much in thegrand mezzo tradition. Not so onthis recording. One is struckagain and again by how smoothlyand well she ties the powerful,low area to the sweet, rich mid-dle and light, clear top. What isreally wonderful to hear is notonly her sense of rhythm andtiming but the careful way sheuses coloratura to express theconflicting feelings of Isabella.Every note, of course, is sung-not indicated, sung-but there isfar more; she makes each noteboth stand for itself and seeminextricably linked in the longline of the role, while all is han-dled with an ease that makesone forget its formidable technic-al difficulties. The ring of hervoice, its roundness, the clarity ofdiction, all are further plusses inher approach. And with Isabellaher vocal weight is ideal. She cansing heavier material, but she isso exceptional in bel canto thatfighting a Verdi orchestra seemsan awful waste of a preemptivevocal resource.

Scimone is not one of thoseconductors who seems to deferto the diva at all times. His read-ing is clear and crisp, in good belcanto style, and he grasps theelegance without which Rossinibecomes boring. L'Italiana is nota masterpiece like II Barbiere diSiviglia or Cenerentola. Manypassages, particularly in Act II,suggest a composer still learninghis trade and occasionally corn-

Rossini's 'Italian Girl'By SPEIGHT JENKINS

posing in a formula manner. Thewhole scene with Taddeo, for in-stance, in which he is named anofficial of the Algerian court,rarely if ever has much affect, andit takes full staging and greatcomedians to keep the final "pa-patacci" scene-in which the Beyis seduced into eating spaghettiand ignoring all that his eyes andears tell him-from seemingeternal. If the longeurs can oc-casionally be felt on this record-ing, they are well disguised. Thelast record, incidentally, has somemarvelous arias composed byRossini for later performances ofthe opera with new singers. Theyare brilliantly realized by MissHorne and her Lindoro, ErnestoPalacio.

One of the delights of the re-cording is the use of Samuel Ra-mey as the Mustafa, the Bey ofAlgiers. Ramey, whose New Yorkcareer has so far been confinedto the City Opera, sings Rossiniwith a brilliance and charm toequal Miss Horne. No one on-stage in our time in his voicecategory is his equal in Rossini,and the evidence can be heardin this recording. Whether in therollicking "Gia d'insolito ardore"or in the quick banter of the finalscene, his voice is commanding,lyrically attractive and absolutelysolid in the coloratura. Addition-ally, one can feel from him thehumor that can make a comiccharacter a success.

The other vital character inthis 1813 comedy is, of course,the tenor, and no role is harderto cast today. Lindoro, conceivedfor tenors who sang most of theirhigh notes in a manner that wewould today call falsetto, is al-most excruciatingly high-not be-cause of its large number of highC's but because of the overallplacement of the whole vocalline at and above the break inthe tenor's voice. Add to thevocal range problems the re-quirement that the tenor be aleggiero rather than a lyric sothat he can easily and lightly han-dle the ceaseless coloratura, andone has a role that in the past15 years has defeated many. Er-nesto Palacio does not have totake it down, and he sings withdistinction. Occasionally, hisvoice takes on an edge and itis not clear how large it is, butin general his is a very pleasingand intelligent treatment of Lin -




AmencaRecordWorld

Latin American© Album Picks

"AMOR AMOR"JOSE JOSE-Pronto PTS 1085

Con arreglos de Pershing, R. Alvarez yen production de Jose Jose y Camilo Ses-to, este gran repertorio reafirma la popu-laridad creciente de Jose Jose. Muybuenas interpretaciones de "Insaciableamante," (Camilo Blanes) "Amor amor,"((Perez Botija) "No me digas que te vas"(A. Jaen) y "No me platiques mas." (V.Garrido)

Great arrangements and performances by Jose Jose from Mexico.Produced by Camilo Sesto and Jose Jose, this outstanding package ofromantic ballads reaffirms the singer's popularity. "Te amo y no teamo." (L. de la Colina) "Insaciable amante," "A ratos," (de Ia Colina)others.

"CONFIDENCIAS"JOSE VELEZ-Columbia TXS 3197

En production de Manuel de la Calva,Jose Velez se acerca mas al reconoci-miento internacional a traves de "A carao cruz," (De la Calva-Arcusa) "Procuroolvidarte," (Alejandro -Magdalena) y "Per-doname otra vez" (De la Calva-Arcusa)incluidas aqui. El resto, comercial, perodebil.

Produced by Manuel de la Calva, Jose Velez is getting closer tointernational recognition as a winner. "A cara o cruz," "Procuro ol-vidarte" and "PerdOname otra vez" could easily make it big.

"EN VIVO DESDE EL OLYMPIADE PARIS

LOLA BELTRAN-Gas 4235

Lola Beltran es, sin lugar a dudas, una delas voces mas ricas y populares de Mexi-co. Aqui se luce en "vivo" desde el Olym-pia. Repertorio que venders por siempre.

lk 1k Grandes "standards" como "Janitzio," (A.Lara) "La Feria de las Flores," (Ch. Monge)"Paloma Negra" (T. Mendez) y otros, nopor no mencionados, menos importantes.

Lola Beltran is, without any doubt, one the most popular singers inMexico. This album, recorded live at the Olympia, Paris, should sellforever. "La Llcrona," (D.P.) "La Borrachita," (T. Nacho) "Cielito Lin -do," more.

c,newr Amen,' "UNCHAINED FORCE"SONORA PONCENA-Inca JMIS 1077

Con arreglos de Papo Lucca, Wison Torresy Luis Garcia, con las voces de ToriitoLedee, Yolanda Rivera y Miguelito Ortiz,esta production de Papo Lucca es una delas mejores de la Sonora Ponceria. Ritmo,sabor y baile al maxim°. "Mi Lindo Yam-

(D.R.) "Huracan," (0. Barroso) "LuzNegra" (C. Alonso) y "Pensandolo Bien."(Y. NUfiez-R. Solano)

With arrangements by Papo Lucca, Wison Torres and Luis Garcia,this Papo Lucca salsa production of Sonora Poncetia could easily be-come one of the group's biggest hits. It's rhythmic and spicy. "Borin-quen," (J. Ortiz) "Nicka's Dream Mambo," (H. Silver) "Extasis deAmor," (D.R.) and "Huracan."

Desde Nuestro Rinconc Internacional

By TOMAS FUNDORA

(This column appears first in Spanish, then in English)

Durante su asistencia a MIDEM este atio, SamGoff, presidente de Coco Records de Nueva York,completo negociaciones para licenciar el productoComo con South American Records para Argen-tina, Uruguay y Chile, TH Records para Colombia,Palacio de Ia Mt sica para Venezuela y Discos deCentroarnerica para America Central. Se mantie-nen negociaciones para los territorios de Mexico,Chile, Brasil, Europa y Africa. Adicionalmente alextenso catalog° Coco, en el cual se incluyen gra-

baciones del ganador por dos ocasiones del Grammy, Eddie Palmieri,Raphael Cortijo, Jose Fajardo, Lissete y otros, Coco acaba de firmar aLarry Harlow y Ia Orquesta Broadway ... Se reunieron, tambien enMIDEM, las firmas que forman parte del grupo Discosa Internacional,donde profundizaron los contactos ya existentes con diferentes pro-ductores y cornpanias para la distribution de sus grabaciones en losmercados que operan las companias del grupo. Se recibieron diver-sas ofertas de empresas de vatios paises hispanoamericanos para in-corporarse a Discosa Internacional. Los directivos del grupo que es-tuvieron presentes fueron: Carlos Camacho (Consejero Delegado deHelix), Esteban Garcia-Morencos (Consejero-Delegado de Zafiro), En-

rique M. Garea (Director Gerente de Columbia -Espana). Enrique Inurrieta Jr. (Vice -President Eje-cutivo de Alhambra-E.U.A.) Jose Maria Guerra Zun-zunegui (Presidente de Movieplay-Espana), Enri-que Inurrieta (Consejero Delegado de Columbia -Espana), Juan Santabaya (Consejero Delegado deMovieplay-Espana), Tomas Toral (Secretario delConsejo de Columbia), Antonio Ortega (Subdirec-tor General de Zafiro) y Gerhard Haltermann (Ge-

Jerry Jarvis rente Internacional de Columbia y CoordinadorInternacional de Discosa Internacional. SegUn los informes recibidospor este redactor, los proyectos de Discosa Internacional son en ex-tremo ambiciosos y ojala se vean favorecidos en la practica, ya que

de resultar asi, la fuerza internacional establecida,podra hacerle una competencia muy fuerte a granparte de las multinacionales, que se encuentran,en su mayoria, aquejadas del "mal de Ku" quesufren gran parte de sus mas importantes (no porello, mas talentosos) ejecutivos.

Me comunica Joe Hochschild, Gerente deKXWM (P.O. Box 326, McFarland, California 93250)que Oscar Bibo no esta prestando sus funciones a

Pastor Lopez la estacion radial y suplica que de ahora en ade-lante, los discos-muestras sean enviados a la empresa y no a un in-dividuo en especial. Al mismo tiempo, ruega que con cada envio dediscos, se acompatie una factura en la cual se especifique la cantidad

de discos enviados ... Doug Matthews, GerenteGeneral de KBRG Radio, (1355 Market St., SanFrancisco, Calif. 94103) anuncia el nombramientode Marcos Gutierrez, como su Director de Progra-macion y se encuentra muy interesado en recibirmuestras dirigidas a la estacion Marra Do-nohue, Directora de Eventos Especiales de WOJORadio Ambiente de Chicago, me comunica que laestacion estard celebrando su aniversario en Fe -

Louie Ramirez brero 18, fecha en la cual, Ia estacion fue a unaprogramacion de 24 horas diarias en Espanol, sirviendo a mas de unmillon de latinos en el area Metropolitana de Chicago (105 FM) atraves de sus antenas localizadas en lo alto del John Hancock Center,cubriendo un area de ocho condados de Illinois e Indiana. El exit°de la emisora ha sido en extremo espectacular y desamos felicitar-los por Ia gran labor desplegada, hecho patente en un hermoso




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1. PERDONAME 1. PERDONAMECAMILO SESTO-Ariola CAMILO SESTO-Pronto

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TODO SE DERRUMBO DENTRO DE MIEMMANUEL-RCALENA VERDE

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NAPOLEON-Cisne RAFF 8. EL 0 YO9. EL FAROLITO LOS GALOS-AI

EL GARRAFON & SUS CINCO MONEDAS 9. AMANTES-Accion JULIO IGLESIAS-CBS

10. DON DIABLO 10. ADIVINA DE DONDE SOYMIGUEL BOSE-CBS JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ-T.H.

Ventas (Sales)

MexicoBy VILO ARIAS SILVA

1. PERDONAMECAMILO SESTO-Ariola

2. LO SIENTO MI AMORLUPITA D'ALESSIO-Orfeon

3. TODO SE DERRUMBO DENTRO DE MIEMMANUEL-RCA

4. AMOR, AMORJOSE JOSE-Ariola

5. LO NUESTRO ERA AMISTADSONIA RIVAS-Microfon

6. MORIR DE AMORMIGUEL BOSE-CBS

7. YO QUISIERA QUE TUDIEGO VERDAGUER-Melody

8. EL FAROLITOEL GARRAFON Y SUS CINCO MONEDAS

-Action9. EL PAVO REAL

JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ-Musart10. ESPERANZA

YURI-Gamma

Denver1. NO ME ARREPIENTO DE NADA

ESTELA NUNtZ-Pronto2. LO SIENTO MI AMOR

LUPITA D'ALESSIO-Orfeon3. QUE ME GANO

CHELO-Musart4. VEINTE ANOS

JUAN GABRIEL-Pronto5. LENA VERDE

NAPOLEON -Raft

6. PRUEBA DE AMORRITMO 7-Fama

7. VALE MAS QUE LO CREASBEATRIZ ADRIANA-Peerless

8. SI QUIERES VERME LLORARLISA LOPEZ-Hacienda

9. SI TU TIENES LA PLATALOS FEL INOS-Musart

10. CELOS DE TILA MIGRA-Mar Int.

Nuestro Rincon (Continued from page 40)

"brochure" que me han hecho Ilegar ...KUNV de la Universidad deNevada, Las Vegas (4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada89154, Tel. (712) 739-3877 se convierte en la mas reciente radio-difusora en el area de Las Vegas, que comenzard a transmitir con14,000 watts de potencia en Marzo. Entre otros programas funda-mentales, KUNV presentara un programa en Espanol, "Sabado Espe-cial," de siete de la manana a doce del dia. "Sabado Especial" esel 6nico programa en Espanol que se transmitird, a esa hora, en LasVegas. En la programacion se incluird todo genero de m6sica lati-na, ya sea traditional como moderna. Beatriz Gutierrez, directorade "Sabado Especial" agradecera muestras recibidas a su atencion.iFelicidades Beatriz!

Jerry Jarvis, muy popular discjockey de discotecas, Director funda-dor de la R & B Record Pool de Miami tambien agradecera muestrasenviadas a: R & B Record Pool, 4514 N.W. 183rd. St., Miami, Fla.33055. Tel. (305) 652-8208 o 821-9294. Jarvis, nativo de las IndiasOccidentales, (West Indies) es un veterano en el mundo del disco,con cuatro anos de permanencia en el area, despues de lograr acep-tacion en Puerto Rico en las mismas funciones. Jerry considera que"la mosica latina y la musica R&B (negra) norteamericana tiene lasmismas raices, al igual que la "soul" o "jazz," porque se derivande las mismas caracteristicas africanas ritmicas." Habiendo termi-nado su asociacion con la Florida Record Pool, Jarvis ha organizadotodas las discotecas negras bajo esta asociacion, que nutre a losdiscjockeys del area con lo ultimo en mosica norteamericana negray la latina que aplique a baile. En la asociacion figuran muy impor-tantes discjockeys radiates del area Miami-Oslando ... Fuentes deColombia me anuncian el lanzamiento de la grabacion del duetointegrado por Herman y Julia, acompanados por Los Diplomaticos.Al mismo tiempo, han comenzado a grabar Ia voz del cantante Josue,de Ia ciudad de Medellin, que Fuentes considera a alas de posible

San AntonioBy KUKA (EDMUNDO JIMENEZ)

1. SI QUIERES VERME LLORARLISA LOPEZ-Hacienda

2. ABRAZAMETROPICAL FLORIDA -Viva

3. LO NUESTRO ERA AMISTADSONIA RIVAS-T.H.

4. UN DIA A LA VEZLOS TIGRES DEL NORTE-Fama

5. VIDAALICIA JUAREZ-Profono

6. PEQUENA ORGULLOSASAMUEL -Helix

7. BESITO CORTADOSUPER ESTRELLA-Viza

8. AMIGO CORAZONSERGIO TAMEZ-Tipi

9. DIRAUL VALE -Melody

10. PROHIBICIONESLOLI TA -CBS

San FranciscoBy KOFY (OSCAR MUNOZ)

1. PERDONAMECAMILO SESTO-Pronto

2. INSACIABLE AMANTEJOSE JOSE-Ariola

3. A FUEGO LENTOLOS ANGELES NEGROS-Latin Int.

4. TENGO MUCHO QUE APRENDER DE TIEAAMANUEL-Arcano

5. TE AMAREMIGUEL BOSE-CBS

6. El, PAPATURROORQ. HERMANOS FLORES-Al

7. LA RADIODYANGO-Odeon

8. BAJO EL CIELO DE MORELIAFELIPE ARRIAGA-CBS

9. AHORA 0 NUNCAANGELA CARRASCO-Pronto

10. LOS DOS COMPADRESVICENTE FERNANDEZ-CBS

Rio De JaneiroBy NOPEM

Sao PauloBy NOPEM

1. WOMAN IN LOVEBARBRA STREISAND-CBS

1. WOMAN IN LOVEBARBRA STREISAND-CBS

2. CEDO PRA MIMKATIA-CBS

2. STARTING OVERJOHN LENNON-WEA

3. CONGA CONGA CONGAGRETCHEN-Copacabana

3. A ULTIMA CARTAMARCOS ROBERTO-Copacabana

4. STARTING OVERJOHN LENNON-WEA

4. CEDO PRA MIMKATIA-CBS

5. GRAFFITTITHE PARIS GROUP -RCA

5. MAKE ME A STARK.C. & THE SUNSHINE BAND -CBS

6. ON BROADWAYGEORGE BENSON-WEA

6. GRAFFITTITHE PARIS GROUP -RCA

7. THE WANDERERDONNA SUMMER-WEA

7. THE WINNER TAKES IT ALLABBA-RCA

8. THE WINNER TAKES IT ALLABBA-RCA

8. CONGA CONGA CONGAGRETCHEN-Copacabana

9. QUERO COLOFABIO JR.-RGE

9. BABOOSHKAKATE BUSH -EMI

10. SACO CHEIOALMIR GUINETO-K-Tel

10. MARGHERITALE NUVOLE-RGE

impacto en Ia juventud colombiana, como un cantante de "expor-tacion." Pastor Lopez, artista Fuentes, se presentard en Medellin aprincipios de Marzo, alternando con Los Graduados y el "loco"Quintero ... Fania acaba de lanzar una nueva grabacion de LouieRamirez, en su etiqueta Cotique, bajo el titulo "Salsero." El sencillolanzado del album en Estados Unidos contiene "El tiempo" ("Nowis the Time") y "Tortura China" ...Much° agradecere infirmaci6ntendiente a nombrar un nuevo corresponsal de Record World enEspana, ante la renuncia voluntaria establecida por el grato amigoJavier Alonso Y ahora... i Hasta la proxima!

After attending the MIDEM Convention, Sam Goff, president ofCoco Records in New York, has announced the completion of li-censing arrangements for Coco product with South American Rec-ords for Argentina, Uruguay and Chile; T.H. Records for Colombia;Palacio de la Masica for Venezuela; and Discos de Centroamericafor Central America. Still in negotiation are the territories of Mexico,Chile, Brazil, Europe and French-speaking Africa. In addition to thewell-known Latin label's catalog, which includes two-time Gram-my award winner Eddie Palmieri, Raphael Cortijo, and Jose Fajardo,among others, Coco recently announced the signing of Larry Harlowand Orquesta Broadway... The different companies that form thegroup Discosa Internacional also attended MIDEM in order to ar-range the distribution of their recordings in various markets. AmongDiscosa International's executives in attendance were: Carlos Cama-cho, advisor for Helix; Esteban Garcia-Morencos, advisor for Zafiro;Enrique B. Garea, general director, Columbia -Spain; Enrique InurrietaJr., vice president of Alhambra Records-U.S.A.; Jose Maria Guerra Zun-zunegui, president of Movieplay-Spain; Enrique Inurrieta, advisor forColumbia-Spain;Juan Santabaya, advisor for Movieplay-Spain; Tomas




Record World en MexicoBy VILO ARIAS SILVA

MEXICO-Espectacular y fuerade toda comparacion, el exitoque Iogro Miguel Bose en su vi-sita que incluia por primera vezpresentaciones personales! El in-terprete del sello CBS, super6ampliamente todos los calculosprevistos, alcanzando la totalidadde sus actuaciones "en vivo" Ile -nos absolutos en todos los esce-narios en que se present& desdeel majestuoso Teatro de la Ciu-dad hasta Ia popular -de todaIa vida- Arena Mexico. MiguelBosé resulto un bombazo con-tundente, que hizo estragos deadmiraci6n y fanatismo en el pir-blico de todas las edades. Y co-mo consecuencia de estos violen-tos triunfos que pocas veces seviven en Mexico con un artistade habla hispana, sus produccio-nes han agarrado una fuerzaaplastante, colocandose rapida-mente como exito nacional su"Morir de Amor," tema que an-tes de su Ilegada luchaba dura-mente por afianzarse con resul-tados limitados; pero con la pre-sencia de Bose se consolitio ysurgi6 como hit nacional su masreciente lanzamiento "Don Dia-blo." En estos resultados, quebrillaron en todo su esplendordurante Ia permanencia de Mi-guel en Mexico, cabe destacar elprofesional, agresivo y excelentetrabajo promocional desplegadopor el sello CBS, que dirigen des -de hate muchas temporadas Ma-nuel Villarreal, Armando de Llanoy Ratil Bejarano. La tarea de Iacompania grabadora estuvo enextremo nutrida de aciertos, pro-yectando y protegiendo Ia pro-duccion e imagen de Bose, laborque ha continuado con Ia mismaintensidad despues de la partidadel nuevo idol° de Mexico. Con-gratulaciones! ... Sonia Rivas (Mi-crofon) super() los 100 mil sen-cillos vendidos con su creation"Lo nuestro era amistad," conso-lidandose como una de las votesfemeninas de mayor impacto enel mercado. Con este exito, elcamino discografico de Sonia enMexico vuelve a cobrar fuerza, ydesde ya, sus nuevas produccio-nes son esperadas con inquietudpor los programadores radialesque difunden en espariol ...Con

etiqueta de hit, la nueva graba-don de Olga Maria (Musart). Lahija de Olga Guillot, que ya brillacon luz propia y a la cual la em-presa de los amigos Baptista leviene haciendo un trabajo real-mente valioso en todos los as-pectos de su carrera discografica,comienza a afianzarse con el te-ma "Si pero no," extendiendosevigorosamente la difusion a todaIa Republica Comienza la in-quietud en toda la industria porlo que seran las eliminatorias delDecimo Festival OTI, del cualsaldra como todos los afios lacandor' que represente a Mexicoen la final internacional. Autoresde reconocido prestigio anunciansu participation y Raid Velascocon su profesional "staff" de co-laboradores, en donde tieneenorme responsabilidad la laborque desarrolla Normita Garza, yaestan ultimando detalles y ajus-tando a la perfection todos lospuntos basicos del importanteevento, que hoy en dia esta cons-tituido como el mas relevante deHispanoamerica Y ahora iHas-ta la proxima desde Mexico!

PolyGram PublishingHonors Spanish Labels HAMBURG - The publishingdivision of the worldwide Poly -Gram Group has presented itsannual award to Phonogram andPolydor Records Spain. The awardwas presented to Mariano deZuniga, managing director of bothPhonogram and Polydor Spain, byHeinz T. Voigt, president, Poly -Gram Publishing Division.

Initiated two years ago, thepublishing award is given to thenational record company whichachieves the most outstandingcooperation with the respectivenational publishing companies,which in this case are Cancionesdel Mundo and the ChappellIberica publishing companies.

Scott Names Livert ISLAND PARK, N. Y.- SidneyKruglick, president of Scott Dis-tributing Corp., has announcedthe appointment of Paul Livertas vice president, sales and mar-keting.

Radio ActionMost Added Latin Record

(Tema mas programado)

(Internacional)

"Ya No Regreso Contigo"(Lolita de la Colina)LUPITA D'ALESSIO

(ORFEON) (*) Second Time - Segundo Vez

(Regional)"El Chubasco" (*)

(Carlos y Jose)CARLOS Y JOSE

(T.H. MEX)

Radio Replay (Continued from page 28)

to sleep. When the mayor advises Imus to keep a bottle of water inthe refrigerator so he won't be tempted to run the faucet for a colddrink, Imus dumbly puts his bottle in the freezer, only to be beratedby Koch for running hot water over the bottle to melt it down.When Koch tells Imus that his long morning shower wastes enoughwater to "wash an elephant," Inns is heard taking his elephant tothe car wash. "Eyyyyyyyyyye-mus!" yelled the mayor in his trademarkNew York syllable -stretch.

Ironically, it rained continuously for the entire day on which thetapings took place.

MOVES: Bruce Kelly is leaving 96X, Miami join the air staff of Y-100in afternoon drive, the same slot he had at 96X . . . Pam Wells, for-merly MD of KMJQ, has been named MD at WBMX, Chicago . . .

Meanwhile, Doug Banks, Lee Michaels, Don Rashid and RichardSteele have all left WBMX, reportedly for unrelated reasons . . . TomPrestigiacomo has been named acting music director of WMC, Mem-phis . . . Bill Stephens has joined WRKO, Boston, in the 12-3 p.m.weekday airshift . . . John Fisher is the new morning man at WMET,Chicago.

AIRWAVE FELON? A precedent -setting case may be in the works inCincinnati, where David Zeh, an announced on WAIF, a listener spon-sored FM station, has been charged with four felony counts forbroadcasting objectionable material. While on -the -air misconduct isgenerally the province of the FCC, Hamilton County (which includesCincinnati) is citing certain statues (which have also been used againstpublisher Larry Flynt) to charge Zeh with a crime that could put himin jail for five years and cost him $2500 in fines. The charges againstZeh result from a complaint from two Cincinnati parents that theirfour children-minors-heard an objectionable monologue of a

homosexual nature on the station.

Nuestro Rincon (Continued from page 41)

Toral, secretary of Columbia -Spain; Antonio Ortega, subdirector ofZafiro-Spain, and Gerhard Haltermann, international manager of Co-lumbia -Spain and international coordinator of Discosa International.... Joe Hochschild, general manager of KXWM Radio in McFarland,Ca., has announced that Oscar Bibo is no longer with the station.He would appreciate samples and demo copies sent to: P.O. Box326, McFarland, Ca. 93250. Include an invoice indicating the amountof records sent... Doug Matthews, general manager of KBRG Radioin San Francisco, has announced the appointment of Marcos Gutierrezas program director of the station. He would also appreciate sam-ples, sent to: 1355 Market Street, San Francisco, Ca. 94103 ... MauraDonohue, special events director of WOJO Radio Ambiente in Chi-cago, has announced that on February 18, the station celebratedthe first anniversary of the introduction the 24 -hour Spanish -lan-guage Radio Ambiente format. Serving over one million Hispanicsin the Chicago metropolitan area, WOJO Radio is a vital link forall Spanish-speaking residents. From atop the John Hancock Center,WOJO-FM broadcasts to an eight -county area in Illinois and Indiana.Their success is based on community commitment and the enthusiasmof their staff. Congratulations! ... Beatriz Gutierrez, from KUNV Radioin Las Vegas, Nevada, has announced that the station will begin tobroadcast with 14,000 watts of power in March. Among other spe-cial programs, KUNV will be featuring a Spanish program, "SabadoEspecial," every Saturday from seven in the morning to noon. Itwill be the only Spanish program broadcast in Las Vegas and it willinclude all kind of Spanish music, traditional and popular. Gutierrezwould appreciate samples sent to her attention at: 4505 MarylandParkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154. Tel: (712) 739-3877... JerryJarvis, popular D.J. and director/founder of R & B Record Pool (4514N.W. 183rd St. Miami, Fla. 33055; (305) 652-8208), would appreciatesamples sent to his attention. Jerry, who was born in the WestIndies, is a veteran of the record business, with a wealth of experi-ence in Latin music. When asked to express his view on Latin music,he stated: "I think Latin roots and rhythms are basically the sameas soul or jazz because they both derived from African rhythms.". . . Fuentes Records in Colombia has announced the release of analbum by duet Hernan and Julia, accompanied by Los Diplomaticos.Fuentes has also started recording newcomer Josue in Medellin.Pastor Lopez, also from the label, will perform in Medellin in earlyMarch along with Los Graduados and El "Loco" Quintero . . . Faniahas released an LP by Louie Ramirez entitled "Salsero" on theCotique label. The single released in the States contains the tunes"El Tiempo" and "Tortura China."



Performance Royalty Bill Reintroduced(Continued from page 3)television broadcasters andbackground music services to paya royalty to singers, musiciansand record companies under acompulsory license just as com-posers and publishers are com-pensated for their work.

H.R. 1805 was again intro-duced by Rep. George E. Daniel-son (D -Cal.), who last summersuggested that "for the good ofthe bill" it would be best towait until this session of Con-gress to work on it. At onepoint the bill made it as far asfull Judiciary Committee mark-up (Record World, July 5). H.R.1805 has 28 co-sponsors, in-cluding several new Congress-men.

Staffers on the subcommitteesaid the pending bill will "likelysee action" on the House floorthis session, but it must gothrough markup sessions again.

Proponents of the bill (includ-ing record companies, musi-cians' organizations, the Copy-right Office, the National En-dowment for the Arts, theDepartment of Commerce andthe American Bar Association)argue that commercial users ofsound recordings earn substan-tial income while paying nothingto their creators, and that soundrecordings are the only kind ofcopyrighted work which doesnot enjoy a royalty for a per-formance under the law.

Critics of the bill includebroadcasters and jukebox opera-tors. They maintain that recordcompanies and musicians getfree publicity through the air-play and use of records, andthereby derive income, but pro-ponents point out that a verylarge percentage of broadcastairplay includes records con-sidered "oldies," and that theperformers and record com-panies connected with those rec-ords do not derive substantialsales income from them.

H.R. 185 sets out the follow-ing rates for the royalty whichwould be a statutory compulsorylicense fee (like the mechanicalroyalty) paid on a blanketroyalty basis:

Discos and similar commercialusers - $100 pet location peryear.

Background music services -two precent of gross receipts peryear.

Jukebox owners - one dollarper box per year.

Radio stations - stations withannual net advertising revenuesof $25,000 to $100,000 wouldpay an annual royalty of $250.Stations with annual net adver-tising revenues of $100,000 to$200,000 would pay $750. Ifrevenues are over $200,000, the

station would pay one percentof its net advertising receipts.

Television stations - stationswith annual net advertisingrevenues of $1 million to $4 mil-lion would pay an annual royaltyof $750. If over $4 million, theannual royalty would be $1,500.

Other users would have theroyalty set by the CopyrightRoyalty Tribunal.

Exemptions to the royalty in-clude radio stations with reve-nues of under $25,000 a year,television stations with revenuesunder $1 million a year, back-ground music services withrevenues under $10,000 a year,and public broadcasting or-ganizations.

Royalties would be dividedas follows: 50 percent to thecopyright owner (the recordcompany), and 50 percent to theperformers. The performers'royalties are to be dividedequally among all persons in-volved in the recording. Theroyalty rate would be reviewedby the CRT every five years.

Rossini(Continued from page 39)doro.

Kathleen Battle, currently withMiss Horne in L'Italiana at theMet, sings Elvira with the lightease and spun -sugar perfection ofwhich she is a mistress, but Do-menico Trimarchi is a bit unin-teresting as Taddeo.

* * * *

Opera on records should al-ways be theatrical-that is, notonly vocally satisfying but imbuedwith the spirit of the drama. Forthat reason it is extremely rarefor me to recommend a recordonly for singing. Yet the Puccini-Verdi-Donizetti love duets ofKatia Ricciarelli and Jose Carrerason Philips are so extraordinarilysumptuous from a purely vocalpoint of view that they must bementioned, particularly Miss Ric-ciarelli. Often in trouble on stagein recent seasons with a highlyquestionable middle voice, shesings here with almost matchlessperfection. Her sweet, soft highvoice on this record seems alighter version of the young Re-nata Tebaldi. The two excerptsfrom Donizetti-from Poliuto andRoberto Devereux-find her inparticularly rare form. Carrerassings well, too, sounding tenorialagain, though with some strainon high notes. The sensuousnessof his voice, however, is heardhere to full advantage, and thetwo make quite a pair. LambertoGardelli does not conduct withany distinction. Indeed, he joinsmodern practice in seeking todiscover just how slowly one canlead the Madama Butterfly duet.

N.Y. Rocker: Passionate Rock JournalismBy JEFFREY PEISCH

NEW YORK - New YorkRocker, the monthly tabloid thatwas an early and energeticchampion of new wave, observedits fifth anniversary last month.The occasion was cause for bothcelebration and concern. Duringthe past five years Rocker hasbeen one of the only sources ofinformation for people interestedin the still -active rock scenes thathave thrived without attentionfrom major labels and radio. ButNew York Rocker has only in thelast year begun to operate in theblack and editor/publisherAndy Schwartz has not beenable to begin to recoup hisinitial investment in the ven-ture. To celebrate the anniversary,Rocker held a benefit concert atHurrah to pay back some long-standing debts and, as Schwartzsaid, "to celebrate our growth."

New York Rocker was startedin February 1976 by Alan Bet -rock, who had published thefanzine Jamz and the collectors'journal Rock Market Place. Thefirst issue featured stories onBlondie, Talking Heads, theRamones and Patti Smith. In1977, Schwartz began writing forBetrock's magazine. At thispoint, New York Rocker waspublishing sporadically (everysix or eight weeks) and sellingabout 4000 copies. By the be-ginning of 1978, Betrock wasready to move on to other pro-jects, and Schwartz bought themagazine from Betrock.

"I was sort of jumping intothe pool without a swimminglesson," said Schwartz. "I'dnever edited, never publishedanything, and I had no experi-ence at running a business. I

rapidly discovered that I didn'thave the know-how to run thepaper all by myself so I figuredI had to hire some people. Ifyou hire people you have topay them regularly, and to paythem regularly you have topublish regularly." So, beginningin June '79, Rocker began pub-lishing monthly and has beengrowing steadily since.

Since patting with a nationaldistributor last year, Rocker's cir-culation has reached 30,000.

While Rocker still maintainsits spirit of evangelicism ("wefind bands we're excited about,and we write about them pas-sionately," says Schwartz), andis often irreverent towards"stodgy" industry practices, themagazine has attained a highdegree of respectability. A&Rexecutives at nearly every eastcoast -based label read Rockerto keep up with the newestbands. Just as New York Rockerwrote about Blondie and TalkingHeads years before these groups

became popular, Rocker recentlypraised such groups as theFleshtones and Gang of Fourmonths before the public - orthe record companies - knewthese groups existed.

Schwartz sees Rocker as animportant medium for startinggrass -roots interest in artists."There are a lot of good artistswho aren't getting played on theradio and can't afford to tour. Theexposure for these people has tocome somewhere. Rocker 'canbe very important in thisrespect.

"And let's face it, there's noreason for us to review the newSteely Dan album. Groups likeSteely Dan are written up inevery publication in the coun-try." Yet even though themajority of the artists writtenup in Rocker never make the topten, labels often use Rocker asa medium for advertising theirtop -ten artists. Full -page ads forSteely Dan and the Eagles re-cently appeared in Rocker. "Thelabels are obviously realizing thatthe people who read Rocker-andI'm not even sure who they are-buy a lot of records."

For lack of a better term,Schwartz says that "new wave"

the musiccovered in Rocker. "'Rock 'n'Roll' has expanded to cover somuch that is not really rock," hesaid, "that new wave can beused to identify a certain musicthat is separate from that hugemainstream. My favorite termsare real rock 'n' roll, or punk. I

like punk because it still con-notes a vaguely abrasive andradical tradition that goes backto the Standells and the Seedsand, as the cliche goes, beforethat to Elvis Presley.

"My main concern is that wedon't ever fall into the rote,boring coverage of the same oldpeople that seems to happen atso many music publications."During the past year, New YorkRocker carried a conversationbetween Parliament / Funkadelicleader George Clinton and theleader of the New York bandthe Contortions, James Chance;the title of the story was "PunkMeets Funk." The magazine re-cently carried an interview withAbbie Hoffman.

Schwartz said he'd like to seeRocker reach 100,000 readers. "Ifthe Clash can sell 250,000 rec-ords," he said, "we should beable to reach at least a third ofthese people. The most importantthing, though, is to keep the pa-per exciting. If, at any time, I losethat spirit of evangelicism, I hopeI realize it, and pass the projecton to someone who still feels it."



GRecord World

Word Enters the Video Market WACO, TEX. - In keeping withprojected consumer demands,Stan Moser, senior vice presidentof Word Marketing, has an-nounced the formation of a videocommunications division to cre-ate and produce video program-ming.

"There couldn't be a bettertime to start," said Moser. "Tech-nology allows this product to bemarketable now. Companies,schools, and many church organ-izations have already gone tovideo media. With the homevideo industry overcoming itstechnical problems and makingsoftware more affordable, the

general consumer will be readyfor this product in a relativelyshort time."

Jahn Lutz NamedTo head the new operation

Moser has chosen "an expert invideo excellence able to producea quality product in the religiousfield," Jahn Lutz, as director ofvideo programming. Lutz waspreviously president of his ownmedia consulting firm, Lutz/Eccles Productions. His work in-cludes many nationally syndicatedprograms, several local networkaffiliate programs, and nationalradio specials. Lutz was involved


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Gospel TimeBy PAM LEE

Word, Inc.'s first annual "press days" gave journalists from acrossthe country an opportunity to meet Word's new director of publicrelations, Walt Quinn. Quinn, previously promotion director for IceCapades/Metromedia, will handle the label's publicity and press in-formation. "Press Days" also yielded interviews with Word executivesand artists Dion, Morris Chapman, David Meece and Amy Grant.

Randy Cox, GM of Paragon/Benson Publishing Group, has beenchosen to fill a position on the NARAS board of governors. His mid-year term will run through June, when Cox's name will be added tothe ballot to be voted on by NARAS members for next year's board.Speaking of Randy, he's been busy at Paragon/Benson initiating anew song/songwriter promotion campaign. Plans are to use a morepersonal approach in working their catalogue. Staff members willtravel across the country to meet artists and producers face to face.

Bill Hearn has been appointed director of marketing services forSparrow Records. In addition to directing promotion and publicity,Hearn will handle Sparrow's merchandising . .. Lanny Wolfe recentlysigned a three-year artist/exclusive writer's agreement with ImpactRecords and the Benson Company ... Cynthia Clawson was in Nash-ville this week taping the "Bobby Jones Gospel Show" for airing onMarch 15. Ragan Courtney was also in town this week working on"The Amy Grant Special," Word's first video project. Courtney scriptedthe film . . . Spirit Records artist Randy Matthews has signed a long-term professional management contract with Lindy Associates.

Tempo Music Publications has announced the publication of theJerry Kirk Choral Series and octavo accompaniment tracks . . . StreetSong Records has released "Gospel EP Volume 1," featuring selectedwinners in the 1979-80 International Music City Song Festival GospelCompetition. It is available at all Baptist bookstores or through StreetSong Records at (800) 251-1790. Word Music Publications has released"The Songbook," Myrrh Music's first anthology of top contemporaryChristian music.

spel Album PicksTHE LORD REIGNSMORRIS CHAPMAN-Myrrh MSB 6659 (Word)On his first album, Chapman displays hisexpert ability to write and perform Chris-tian music. Some songs are excellent se-lections for contemporary radio airplay,but traditional gospel roots are evident inChapman's moving vocal performancesand soul -stirring rhythms that stand out inevery song. "Whatever It Takes," "YouAin't Seen Nothing Yet," "All That I NeedIs In Jesus," and the title cut are supreme.

TEACH US YOUR WAYEVIE AND PELLE KARLSSON-Word WSB 8848

The combined efforts of this husband -wifeteam have produced a unique worshipalbum. Simple string arrangements andclear harmonies provide a pleasant back-ground for Evie's sweet vocals.

GOD IS OUR CREATORALBERTINA WALKER-Savoy SL 14583 (Arista)Albertina leads the Trinity All NationsChoir and West Point Mass Choir in gloryand praise of the highest conviction. Herinvincible faith is evident through theenergy that prevails in this album. "Rise,Shine And Give God The Glory," and"I've Got To Serve The Lord" are excel-lent.



Imperials Add Smith WACO, TEX.-Armond Moralesand Jim Murray, members of theImperials, have announced theaddition of Paul Smith to thegroup. Smith's signing was madepublic shortly after baritone sing-er Russell Taff announced he wasleaving the Imperials to pursue anew ministry.

In April the Imperials begin anationally promoted concert tourthat will encompass major con-cert halls in nearly 50 cities, in-cluding the Omni in Atlanta, theMabee Center in Tulsa, and KielArena in St. Louis. Sonshine Con-certs Limited, promoters of the

tour, plan to work with electronicand print media and promote theshows through regular ticket out-lets as well as Christian book-stores. "This is the first tour thathasn't had to depend on mailinglists to work," says Rodney Snell,president of Sonshine. "We planto tie in with both Christian andsecular press in each city andwill be working with television aswell."

The company is also workingwith college newspapers and ra-dio stations, local church groups,and magazines to promote thetour, which ends in December.

The "new" Imperials: from left, Jim Murray, Dave Will, new member Paul Smith, and

Armond Morales.

Word Video (Continued from page 44)in such Christian productions as"Hosanna U.S.A." and the pro-posed TV series "Gospel Road."He has also produced commercialspots for the Southern Baptist Ra-dio and TV Commission.

The new division will producevideo and film specials with par-ticular care in presenting eachauthor or artist in a format that

MusiCalifornia Set LOS ANGELES-Lexicon Musicwill sponsor the eighth annualMusiCalifornia April 22-25 at theHyatt Regency here, with 13reading sessions, 40 workshops,and special artist appearancesscheduled, according to RayDeVries, conference director.

New to the conference is a

special series of pastors' work-shops in cooperation with theRobert H. Schuller Institute forSuccessful Church Leadership.Premieres include Reba andDony McGuire's "The Lord'sPrayer" from Lexicon, "HymnsTriumphant" from Sparrow, and"The Scarecrow," a children'smusical from Lexicon. Artistsscheduled to attend are Rebaand Dony McGuire, Nielson andYoung, Audrey Mieir, SharaleeLucas, Mike Redman, Gail Farrell,and Dennis Agajanian.

Pre -registration is $99, with$85 for wives and fulltime stu-dents and a $50 daily rate. Doorregistration is $114. For informa-tion write MusiCalifornia, P.O.Box 1305, Woodland Hills, CA91365, or call (213) 703-1736 or(800) 423-5401.

makes the most of his or herunique strength. Moser and Lutzpredict that there will soon bepackets of films for church dis-tribution, videocassettes or discsfor the home viewer, and featureprograms for commercial, Chris-tian, and cable TV markets. Theirultimate goal is the creation ofmajor Christian motion picturesfor national release.

The first production is alreadyunderway. The Amy Grant spe-cial, which began taping Feb. 20at Opryland Studios in Nashville,features Grant live in concertwith her band and also at severalNashville -area locations. Releasehas been set for late May, to co-incide with her new live album.A contemporary music special,"Hosanna U.S.A.,' is also plannedfor release in the second quarter.

NRB Elects OfficersI WASHINGTON-Meeting at the38th annual convention of Na-tional Religious Broadcasters here,NRB members re-elected DavidL. Hofer for a third one-year termas president. Other newly electedofficers include Robert Ball, firstVP; Jerry Rose, second VP; PaulRamseyer, treasurer; and EugeneR. Bertermann, secretary. Theboard of directors was also elect-ed to serve three-year terms.

Plans were made to move theNRB's national headquarters fromNew York to the Washingtonarea by Jan. 1, 1984. Executivedirector Ben Armstrong announc-ed that the next NRB nationa'convention will be Feb. 7-10, 1982at the Sheraton Washington Hotel.

Studio Singerssatisfaction is found, as all readilyagree, in solo performing, theabsolute minimum satisfactionthat they will accept from theirprofession is the respect of theproducers who use their talents.The bane of the studio singer,and especially the contactor/arranger, is the producer who in-flexibly instructs the singers. "Ourjob is to give the producer ex-actly what he or she wants,"states Maxine Waters, adding thather own reputation is at stakeeach time she contracts a session.Still, with 18 years of experience,Waters says "we can feel wherethe part should be."

In the context of session sing-ing, everyone's favorite recollec-tions are of sessions where themargin of creativity allotted tothe background singers was great-est. Both Vandross and Austin callQuincy Jones' "Stuff Like That"

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a "dream session": Austin wasgiven a free hand to contracta dozen of her most talentedcolleagues. Vandross calls it "adiva convention"; Austin calls it"a real party." Stephanie Spruillcalled her sessions with GinoVanelli "a challenge I really en-joyed," while Maxine Waters, herfrequent associate in the studioadds that, out of possibly a thou-sand sessions, "only three werereally a drag."

The strongest impression then,that is left by these "super sing-ers," as Quincy Jones affection-ately dubbed the vocalists on"Stuff Like That," is their fiercepride in their craft. "Backgroundsinging is an independent skill,"asserts Vandross; "It compromisesyour instincts to sing in a group."From Stephanie Spruill: "We putour hearts and souls in-we par-ticipate emotionally."

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(Continued from page 10)the record company idea and becomes a video production company.

RW: So who's going to fill those shoes?Rundgren: It will be a video production company, whether it's an

old existing one or a new one. The record companies aren't wellacquainted with the technicalities of doing video. But most of theseproduction companies are rock -promo companies and that doesn'tmean they're capable of doing anything else. McCartney's "Back ToThe Egg" is a case in point. It was done by a rock promo companyand it looks that way. It uses standard vocabulary techniques and itis very light in scriptwriting, which is its biggest problem. These rockpromos don't have good scripts to begin with. When you recordrecords and you start out with bad songs, it doesn't matter how youmanipulate it, it's still a bad song. It gets down to A&R-having somekind of video A&R involved. Record companies have audio A&R todetermine whether the material is good.

RW: So you feel that music -related video is a dead end?Rundgren: There isn't enough good music to devote to music -re-

lated video. Contemporary music is 98 percent non -memorable andthere's no reason to glorify it any further by adding another aspectto it. There may be a market there, but I don't see it as being gigantic.There's not going to be a huge movement of people in pop musicinto video. There's just not enough people in the world who knowanything about video A&R, who know anything about what a goodscript is or how to find someone who can write a good script, or howto get a production happening that will turn out good and not cost amillion dollars.

RW: How about enlisting scriptwriters from television?Rundgren: The same thing is wrong with television. It is left to peo-

ple who most of the time don't know anything about what they'redoing. They take the throw -it -up -against -the -wall approach. Everythingthey do is based on the Nielsen ratings, which is totally response -ori-ented rather than artistic -oriented. There may be some people in edu-cational television who have some conception of how to put togethera good program with a realistic budget, because that's their objective,but most commercial television doesn't do that.

RW: So your video focus is on non -music -related projects?Rundgren: They may have music. They may not. Our criteria is not

to limit ourselves. If you're going to limit it to the area of rock, thenyou're really hurting because so much of rock is bad to begin with.I don't think most rock musicians are capable of doing video. Mostrock musicians are barely capable of what they're doing now. Theyjust barely get it together to learn the six chords necessary to getthem across home base.

RW: But couldn't someone conceiveably create a thematic piecewith a narrative story put to music that a production company ani-mates or stages, with any number of possibilities, and it eventuallysells a million or attracts a huge audience? Like "Sgt. Pepper?"

Rundgren: Wait-where is it going to sell a million?RW: What about a smash on television?Rundgren: No one has done that yet. It hasn't happened once yet.

The only way video will become feasible is if someone does that.There's no way you're going to have a hit videocassette or disc ofDevo or Blondie or Jefferson Starship or anyone else because they'vedone it already and they've all lost money. You can't qualify if it willbe a new art form or whether it's a freak thing or a total failure. Ithasn't happened yet. You can't speculate an entire market aroundsomething that hasn't even happened yet. It's not in the near future.There's no market for it. Not enough people own video machines. Ifyou sold a disc to everyone who owns a player, it still wouldn't payfor itself. Most video stores have only tapes of programming you'veseen before. The profit is in cable or satellite.

RW: So we won't be seeing a Todd Rundgren and Utopia videoalbum?

Rundgren: I don't know, I can't say when that will happen. Itwouldn't be realistic to try and create for a market that isn't there.At one point I thought it was possible, but that's when I thought thatvideodisc companies-people who made the discs and the machines-wanted to make them a big thing and have everyone own one andrush out to buy new discs every week. But they're not interested inthat and I think it's basically because they know eventually they'regoing to be destroyed, that all the investment they've made in tryingto create these machines is going to go down the drain. That's becausetechnology has moved so fast. It's moved ahead of their marketingscheme and completely dropped the bottom out of their market.

RW: You mean the disc is already outmoded?Rundgren: I think it's too little too late. Discs are going to be buck-

ing new technology soon and they haven't achieved a significant pene-tration in the market to adequately buck those technologies. Peoplealready have a greater diversification of programming available throughcable and satellite television. They're going to be able to get all thosethings they get on disc through cable television.

RW: You're saying that there aren't going to be videodiscs withoriginal programming material

Rundgren: No, they cost too much and the videodisc companiesdon't want to pay for it. They have a philosophy that the videodiscsaren't going to catch on, that they will be eventually replaced by cableor a two-way television format where people order what they wantfrom a computer. Television, sound and most information processingwill eventually become digital. All that means is that there's a com-mon information base full of dots and dashes. It can be transferredalong a common information link and go in both directions. So youcan have television, the latest records and newspapers and whateverother kind of information-sound or visual-you want transferred tothe home or central processing bank. You could call in from a menuon your television screen and order anything from today's equivalentof a record or video store. But instead of actually buying a physicalthing, you simply transfer it electronically into your home and storeit on your residential device.

RW: And how will this change the record industry?Rundgren: When an artist finishes a record, instead of going through

the process of mastering it into a disc and then having it go to plantsand be packaged and distributed to record stores throughout thecountry, he'll simply take it to the central processing bureau and givethem the master tape to be fed into a computer for requests. Record-ing albums is an antiquated technology anyway and eventually willhave to be replaced by something else.

RW: So how does Todd Rundgren fit into all of this?Rundgren: From my standpoint, nothing changes for me. It's the

marketing that's changed. My equipment may be slightly different inthe future, depending on technological advances in terms of render-ing my music into a recorded format.

Suncoast PromotionsBows in Florida BELLEAIR BEACH, FLA.-Vet-eran independent promotion manPerry Stevens and Neil McIntyre,former national promotion man-ager of MCA Records, haveformed a new company, SuncoastPromotions, that will service ra-dio stations in Tampa, Clearwater,St. Petersburg and Sarasota, con-centrating their efforts on airplayfor all radio formats.

BackgroundStevens recently moved to

Florida from Cleveland, where hehad been doing independent pro-motion for over 20 years. Mc-Intyre's background includes over20 years in broadcasting, with hislast programming position atWPIX-FM in New York. He wasalso radio editor for RecordWorld.

Gortikov To SpeakAt Lunch NASHVILLE - Stan Gortikov,president of the Recording Indus-try Association of America (RIAA),will address the March 10 educa-tional luncheon sponsored by theNashville chapter of the NationalAcademy of Recording Arts andSciences (NARAS) at the MaxwellHouse Hotel here.

Scholarship FundTickets to the luncheon are

$9.50 each, and are available fromNashville's NARAS office at 7 Mu-sic Circle North. Reservations arealso being accepted by phone,(615) 255-8777.

Net proceeds from this lunch-eon, the fourth in a series spon-sored by the local NARAS chap-ter, will go toward the chapter'sscholarship fund.

Crocker & Young & Company

WBLS program dirctor Frankie Crocker was recently presented with a gold record byYoung & Company and Brunswick Records for helping their single "I Like What You'reDoing to Me" to sell over a million copies. Pictured from left are: Jimmy Byrd, VP,national promotion, Brunswick; Billy Young; Crocker; and Mike Young.



Record World

Country Goes European

Millions of European radio listeners were treated to a concert by four country artistsrecently when Crystal Gayle, Porter Wagoner, Johnny Paycheck, and Ronnie Prophetperformed in a show broadcast live from the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Theconcert broadcast, produced by the Nashville Radio Workshop, was carried live overthe 1.3 million -watt Radio Luxembourg. Shown after the concert are, from left: BennyRay, WSIX-FM, Nashville; MC Bob Stewart, Radio Luxembourg; Rick Blackburn, VP andGM, CBS Records, Nashville; Gayle; Jo Walker, executive director, Country MusicAssociation; Prophet; Roy Wunsch, VP, marketing, CBS Records, Nashville; and AllenReynolds, Gayle's producer.

CBS Appoints BowlesX NASHVILLE-Roy Wunsch, VP,marketing, CBS Records -Nashville,has announced the appointmentof Woody Bowles as head of thelabel's Nashville press and publicinformation department.

Bowles will coordinate andoversee publicity on artists mar-keted by CBS -Nashville, coordi-nating activities with Nashvillemarketing and merchandisingmanagement, and publicizingCBS -Nashville. Bowles was previ-ously head of the Nashville -basedBerry Hill Group, a public rela-tions and management firm.

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Radio SeminarCountry(Continued from page 28)vive Under This New Measure-ment Technique" will be hostdby Jim Duncan of "Radio andRecords," with Dan Hiber, presi-dent of Hiber & Hart Ltd.

Concurrent sessions fill outthe remainder of the afternoon.In Regency 3 and 4 from 3:15to 4 will be "How To Read AnARB" moderated by Bill Figen-shu of Viacom audio with GeorgeBurns, president of Burns MediaConsultants, Studio City, Calif.Following this will be "TheMarriage Of Radio, Records,And Trades-Polygamy Works!",moderated by Bob English(WUBE) with panelists JimSharp (Cashbox), Marie Ratliff(Record World), Jim Duncan

Nashville ReportBy AL CUNNIFF

to the list of artists who went top 10 in RW'sCountry Singles Chart with their first nationally charted release:Hank Williams Jr. Hank Jr. went top 10 in April, 1964 with "LongGone Lonesome Blues." Thanks to Bill Williams and Gary Wallingtonof London for that information. By the way, Hank Jr. was about 15at the time.

Ovation's Michael Radford says he hopes to expand his label'scountry roster to about one dozen acts from its current six by theend of this year ... Jeff Fain, MD at WCBX in Eden, N.C., has authored"The Burning," a horror novel published by Leisure Paperbacks ($2.25).It's about a satanic force wreaking havoc in a small town in NorthCarolina.

Producer Tom Dowd was in town recently to supervise MarshallTucker Band sessions at the Sound Emporium. "The band had re-corded at studios in the south and southeast, but never in Nashville,"Dowd said. "I visited here for five or six days last year and checkedout two or three studios a day before deciding on one with the bestblend of equipment and accommodations." Dowd, who producedthe new Eric Clapton LP, will soon work with Pablo Cruise, and is"consider ng" work with Van Morrison, Henry Paul, and GrahamParker. Dowd thinks it would be "healthy" for Nashville studio peopleto "get outside for a week or two and see what other studios aredoing. Studio recording is a business where everyone is always busydoing the best he can, and I think it always helps when someone


PICKS OF THE WEEK-a0z

RONNIE MILSAP, "AM I LOSING YOU"(prod.: Ronnie Milsap & TomCollins) (writer: J. Reeves) (Ron-do, BMI) (3:15). Pulled fromMilsap's upcoming LP of JimReeves songs, "Out Where theBright Lights Are Glowing, -this is an outstanding cover ofa beautiful Reeves ballad thatdeserves new attention. RCAJB-12194.

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PATTI PAGE, "NO ACES" (prod.: ShelbyS. Singleton Jr.) (writers: B.

House, W. Cunningham) (Onthe House/Expertise, ASCAP)(3.27). Plantation matchesPage, in top vocal form, witha poignant piece of materialabout a "game" involving aking, queen, too many hearts,and a lonely joker. Plantation197.

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(Radio and Records), GregGavin (Gavin Report), Stan Byrd(Warner Brothers), Joe Casey(CBS Records), Joe Galante(RCA Records), Bruce Hinton(independent promotion), MoonMullins (WDAF), Joe Ladd(KIKK), and Dan Holyburton,(WQAM). The discussion will beheld in Regency 3 and 4 from4 to 6.

In Davidson A & B from 3:15to 4:15 wil be "How To Buy ARadio Station" moderated byLee Masters (LOZ) with panel-ists Dick Backburn, Blackburn &Co.; Richard Churchill, associateof T.A. Associates, Boston; EdHenson, president of HensonBroadcasting, Louisville; andRichard Ferguson, president ofPark City Communications,Bridgeport.

Other Panels

In Davidson A & B from 4:15to 5:15 will be "FCC - TheCommission Has Made A Move-What's The Next Step?"moderated by Don Boyles withlegal representatives Tom Wall,senior partner of Dow, Lohnes,Albertson, and Wall; and BobHeald, senior partner of Fletcher,Heald and Hildreth. Both firmsare in Washington D.C.

Closing the day's activities inDavidson A & B from 5:15 to6 will be "Sell It-Collect It-Protect It" with moderator VirlWheeler (KYTE) and panelistsJim McGovern (KMPS) and TerryDean (WUBE).

The traditional "Rap Room"discussion will begin at 8 p.m.in Davidson A & B. Ron Nor-wood (KMPS) will lead discus-sions on "News-Information-Creative Public Affairs & SpecialProgramming."


WILLIE NELSON, "SOMEWHEREOVER THE RAINBOW." Followingthe success of his "Stardust- al-bum, Nelson again returns toclassic tunes from earlier days,this time creating a special moodwith veteran country pickers insessions at Gilley's studio inTexas. Standout cuts include thetitle cut, "I'm Confessin'," "MonaLisa," and "It Wouldn't Be theSame (Without You)." ColumbiaFC 36883.



Country HotlineBY MARIE RATLIFF

MOST ADDED CHART CONTENDERS

T. G. Sheppard -- "I've Loved 'Em Every One"

Moe & Joe -- "Hey Joe (Hey Moe)"

Janie Fricke -- "Pride"

Reba McEntire -- "I Don't Think Love Ought To

Be That Way"

Donna Fargo revives in fine style the JohnnyRussell hit of sometime back. "The Baptism OfJesse Taylor" is an instant add at KEBC, KSSS,WCXI, WPNX, WTOD, KVOO, KRMD, KSOP, WWVA.

Reba McEntire has first week addson "I Don't Think Love Ought To BeThat Way" at WPNX, KUUY, KTTS, KRAK,WDJW, WDEN, WQYK, KHEY, WTOD, KMPS,KGA, KEBC, KRMD, WGTO, KBUC, KFDI,WSM, WYDE, KVOO, KWJJ, KSOP, WBAM,WQIK, WCXI, WMZQ, WKHK, WQQT, KEEN.

Gala Morris has strong play onDonna Fargo "Fire in Your Eyes" at KWMT, WMAY,

WDLW, KXLR, WFAI, KUUY, KVOO, KRMD, WXCL, KBUC,KKYX, KYNN, KTTS, KEBC, WWVA, KWMT. A new groupcalled Music Row has adds on "There Ain't a Song"at KOKE, KEBC, WFAI, WPNX, WQYK, KWKH, KSOP, WKKN,WSLC, WMAY, KYNN. Nightstre!ts shows play on"(Lookin' At Things) In A Different Light" at WPLO,WESC, WDEN, KMPS, KEBC, KSOP, KWMT, WSLC, KBUC,KRMD, KFDI, KVOO.

Orion shows reports on "Crazy Lit-

tle Thing Called Love" at KXLR,

KFDI, KSOP, KEBC, KSSS, WPNX, KVOO,WDEN, WSLC, WGTO, WKLW, KYNN. Wick -

line has adds on "Do Fish Swim" at

KDJW, KRAK, WFAI, KOKE.Janie Fricke's remake of the Ray

Price classic "Pride" is off to an

Gary Morris early start at KCKC, KEEN, WMZQ,

KMPS, KSSS, WTSO, KSO, KWJJ, KNIX, KBUC, WSM,

WQIK, KUUY, WCXI, KGA, WDEN, WIRE, KPLX, WKHK,

KENR.

Super strong: Charley Pride, Leon Everette, Gene

Watson (MCA), The Rovers, Emmvlou Harris.Newcomer Gala Lumpkin has response on "A Woman's

Got It (And A Man Wants It)" at KFDI, KVOO, WPNX,

WSLC. Michael Tate's "Mexican Girl" playing at

WPNX, WFAI, WSLC, KDJW.

SURE SHOTS

Ronnie Milsap -- "Am I Losing You"

T. G. Sheppard -- "I Loved 'Em Every One"

LEFT FIELDERS

RylesJohnWesley --"Somewhere To Come When

It Rains"

Roy Clark - Can't Give It Away"

Stan Hitchcock -- "She Sings Amazing Grace"

Rita Coolidge -- "Words"

AREA ACTIONBrenda Frazier -- "I'm Not Afraid Of Love"

(KFDI, KVOO, WSLC)

Steve Jones -- "Rev. Sam Whiskey" (KOKE, KRMD,

KEBC, WFAI)Jim West -- "Lovin' Night" (KSOP, KSO, WTOD,

WDEN)

Happy Dancers

RCA artists Alabama and Ronnie Milsap break into an impromptu dance after a recentconcert in Huntsville, Ala. which capped several Milsap/Alabama dates as part ofAlabama's "homecoming" tour. From left are: Alabama's Jeff Cook and his daughterCrystal; Alabama's Teddy Gentry; Milsap; and Alabama's Randy Owen and MarkHerndon.

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can visit another music center to see how the other guys work andwhat equipment they're using."

RECORD NOTES: Rich Landers has a fine uptempo song in "FridayNight Feelin'," on Ovation . . . Lucille Starr's "Real Love" is also asolid upbeat tune on Great Record Factory Records . . . Nashville -based singer/writer Sonny Mayo has released a self -distributed LPcalled "So Far So Good," with country and pop -oriented material.Best cuts are the title tune and "I Take It All Back" ... Locally basedmusicians known as Jah Message have released an LP on the AYOlabel called "Afrikan Dreamland," which mixes reggae, primitive in-fluences, blues, and other forms, somewhat in the style of Taj Mahal.

Mel Tillis wrote and recorded the theme song for his NBC-TV pilot"Short Trackers" .. . The Scotti Brothers' Stan Moress has announcedthe signing of artist Sami Jo Cole to an exclusive management agree-ment . . . Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, and the Oak Ridge Boys will tape atwo-hour CBS -TV special "Country Comes Home" at the Grand OleOpry this month. The Cates/Hagan production is slated to air April 1.

Crystal Gayle recently headlined at the Apollo Theatre in London... Johnny Rosen, president of Fanta Professional Services, supervisedNashville's first two -track live digital recording when he recordedthe recent two-hour country concert which originated from the Ten-nessee Performing Arts Center for live broadcast over Radio Luxem-bourg. Rosen used a Mitsubishi X-80 digital recorder, and companyreps flew in from Chicago and Japan to observe the process.

Joel Katz, president of Kat Family Records of Atlanta, has announcedthat Billy Joe Royal's "Who Is Like You (Sweet America)" will be thenew label's first single . . . Boxcar Willie appears on a "Hee Haw"episode set to air this weekend . . . RCA's Tom T. Hall is on touragain in April after taking time to finish a novel, cut an LP, and tape"Pop! Goes the Country" ... Molly Hatchet performs at the MunicipalAuditorium here Friday (6).

IN THE STUDIO: Audio Media (Ricky Scaggs), Columbia (BobbyBare, George Jones, Johnny Rodriguez, Calamity Jane), LSI (Jim Ches-nut, Vern Gosdin), Chips Moman (Tammy Wynette), Quadraphonic(Grinders Switch, Donna Fargo), RCA (Steve Wariner, Loretta Lynn,Jerry Reed, Cate Sisters), Marty Robbins Studio (Marty Robbins, theWinters Brothers), Scruggs Sound (Freddie Hart, Earl Thomas Conley),Sound Emporium (Marshall Tucker Band, Boxcar Willie, SaundraSteele), Sound Stage (Becky Hobbs, Dave Rowland and Sugar, SonnyCurtis, Sami Jo Cole), Young'un Sound (Lawler and Cobb, ThomasCain), Wax Works (Gary S. Paxton), Masterfonics (Dickie Betts, KathyBarnes, Tom Jones, Razzy Bailey, Earl Thomas Conley).

Monument's Fred Foster and his wife Lisa recently celebrated thebirth of their daughter, Kristen Ashley . . . RCA's Jerry Flowers ad-dressed a recent meeting of Nashville's Ad 2, Inc. . . . The CMA'sEd Benson was a guest speaker at Mike Hyland's PR class at BelmontCollege here . .. The Limeliters, Inc. booking and management agencyhas slated its annual Theater of Talent showcase for April 5 at theMaxwell House Hotel here. Phone (615) 329-2292 for more details.

Gibson Guitars recently broke ground for its headquarters plannedat Perimeter Park here. The facility will eventually house about 100Gibson employees. The company's current HQ is Northbrook, Ill.



Country Radio Seminar(Continued from page 47)

Saturday's (14) schedule be-gins in Regency 3 & 4 from9:30 to 10:15 with "CountryPhenomenon And Lifestyle" host-ed by Perry St. John (KSO) withspeaker John Parikhal, partnerof Joint Communications,Toronto.

From 10:15 to 11 in Regency3 & 4 session titled "New Com-petition In The Market" will bemoderated by Carol Parker andDan Hayburton with panelistsEd Salamon (HN), Bill Figenshu,Bob Cole (KOKE), and JerryAdams, (KFDI).

Concluding the morning ses-sions will be "Programming ForThe Twelve -Week Book" from11:15 to noon in Regency 3 & 4with moderator Chris Collier(YTE) and panelists Don Lang-ford (KLAC) and Rip Ridgewayof Arbitron N.Y.

Following a lunch break JimRay (KOKE) will host "Position-ing And Marketing Your Sta-tion-Part 1-The Key To Suc-cessful Ratings In The 80s." Thespeaker will be Jon Coleman ofMedia Associates, a Dallas radioresearch consultant firm. Thesession will be held from 1 to1:45 in Regency 3 & 4.

Concurrent sessions will beheld for the remainder of theday. In Regency 3 & 4 from 1:45to 4:15 will be a continuance ofthe previous discussion. Thesession is divided into threeparts: (A) "With On -Air Sound-So You Want To Keep Win-ning In Your Market," moder-ated by Tom Pfifer (KRMD)with panelists Charlie Russell(KHEY), Hal Jay (WBAP), JasonDrake (KFH), and Bob Elliott ofBurkhart, Abrams, Michaels,Douglas & Associates of At-lanta; (B) "With On -Air Promo-tions - Cumes, Quarter Hours,And Image," moderated by

Drake-Chenault Names

Talent Search WinnersII LOS ANGELES - Bobby Rich,director of specialized program-ming consultation for Drake-Chenault, has announced thewinners in the country categoryof the company's recent nationalradio talent search.

The country winners are: Den-nis Conrad, KLIX, Twin Falls, Ida-ho; Walt Jackson, WMPS, Mem-phis; Don Keith, WJRB, Nashville;Ken Shepherd, KWKH, Shreve-port, La.; and Dan Taylor, WHN,New York.

The winners' air checks, alongwith the air checks of winners inother categories, are included ona record album available freefrom Drake-Chenault at 8399 To-panga Canyon Blvd., CanogaPark, Calif. 91304, c/o Bob Rich.

Chris Collier with panelists BobKraig (WTHI) and Charlie Ochs(KIKK); (C) "With Outside Media-Let's Expose Ourselves" withmoderator Pete Porter (WJJD)and panelists Marty Wallach, VPand creative director of Meldrum& Fewsmith, Chicago, JarrettDay (SKO); and Charlie Cook(KHJ).

Simultaneous sessions inDavidson A & B are: 1:45 to2:30, "Your Place In The Mar-ketplace In Sales-When MusicDisappears From Radio," moder-ated by Kim Pyle with Jim Wil-liams, owner of the Welsh Com-pany, Tulsa; 2:30-3:15, "GettingMore Profit And ProductivityFrom Your Sales People - WithOr Without A ComputerizedSystem," with Billie JoyceCampbell (WXBM-FM) and ChrisLytle of Media Sales TrainingSystems, affiliate of Jim Hooker& Co., Chicago; 3:30-4:15, "Sell-ing Country Radio From AnotherPoint Of View," moderated byMike Kirtner (WTCR) with panel-ists Bill Sherard (WPKX) andRoy Valentine (WHEZ).

Following a general session"How To Put Your Face In TheMarketplace," a VTR presenta-tion compiled by Chris Collier,from 4:15 to 4:45 in Regency3 & 4, closing remarks will bedelivered by MCA recordingartist and humorist, Jerry Clower.

The seminar concludes Satur-day evening with the traditionalbanquet and "New Faces Show"in the Regency Ballroom.

Gold for Emmylou NASHVILLE-Warner Bros. Rec-ords -Nashville has announcedthat three Emmylou Harris LPshave been certified gold by theRIAA, certifying sales in excess of500,000 ,nits: "Luxury Liner,""Profile: Best of Emmylou Har-ris," and 'Blue Kentucky Girl."

The albums join "Elite Hotel"in Harris's gold catalogue.

Dolly's Feats Cited NASHVILLE - With her cur-

! rent RCA single "9 to 5" hav-ing topped Record World'scountry, pop, and A/C charts,Dolly Parton becomes the firstNashville -based female artist toaccomplish such a feat. In ad-dition, her "9 to 5" single andLP were recently certified goldby the RIAA.

Parton's "9 to 5" is alsonominated for an Oscar forbest song by the Academy ofMotion Picture Arts and Sci-ences, and she is nominatedby the Academy of CountryMusic for top female vocalistand entertainer of the year.

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hit after..."DO YOU LOVE AS GOOD AS YOULOOK;' "Lovers Live Longer,' "Dancin'Cowboys; "Sugar Daddy;' "If I Said You HadA Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It AgainstMe;' "You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie" havemade two talented Florida boys look...asgood as they are. Which is HOT!

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Produced oy Michael Lloidwith the Bellamy Brothers.

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CountrySingle Picks

COUNTRY SONG OF THE WEEKREBA McINTYRE-Mercury / PoIyGram 57046I DON'T THINK LOVE OUGHT TO BE THAT WAY (prod.: Jerry Kennedy)

(writers: L. Martine Jr., R. Mainegra) (Ray Stevens/Lucy's Boy, BMI)(2:40)

It sounds like Reba's in the country hit groove again with thisstirring, upbeat message from a true -hearted woman.

TAMMY WYNETTE-Epic 19-51011COWBOYS DON'T SHOOT STRAIGHT (LIKE THEY USED TO) (prod.: Chips

Moman) (writers C. Moman, B. Emmons) (Vogue/Baby Chick, BMI) (2:54)The guys in white hats will lie looking you straight in the eye, Tammytells us in her first release with producer Moman.

T. G. SHEPPARD-Warner Bros./Curb 49690I LOVED 'EM EVERY ONE (prod.: Buddy Killen) (writer: P. Sampson) (Tree,

BMI) (3:23)Moody, minor -chord riffs open this unusual tribute to every womanthe singer has ever known. T. G. is sure to get radio response withthis cut.

SAMMI SMITH-Sound Factory 427CHEATIN'S A TWO WAY STREET (prod.: Phil Baugh & Buddy Emmons)

(writers: M. Bernard, C. R. Duvall) (Crown Dancer, ASCAP) 2:58)Here's another excellent release from this one -of -a -kind vocalist.It's an uptempo look at cheatin' from a woman's point of view.

RITA COOLIDGE-A&M 2318WORDS (prod.: David Anderle) (writers: B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb)

(Casserole/Unichappell, BMI) (3:25)Rita charted country with her last release, and country radio may alsopick up on this slick cover of a Bee Gees 1960s hit.

BILL NASH-Liberty 1400FINGERTIP FEVER (prod.: Dave Burgess) (writers: D. Burgess, K. Westberry)

(Barnwood/Joiner, BMI/ASCAP) (2:21)Nash's Liberty debut is a bright -sounding cut with a south -of -the -border influence, about a guy who's burnin' up with fingertip fever.

JEANNE PRUETT-P.A.I.D./ IBC 118SAD OLE SHADE OF GRAY (prod.: Walter Haynes) (writers: S. Throckmorton,

G. Martin) (Tree, BMI) (3:04)Pruett aims at the airwaves again with this smooth, mournful balladby two veteran hitwriters.

JOHN WESLEY RYLES-MCA 51080SOMEWHERE TO COME WHEN IT RAINS (prod.: Ron Chancey)

(writer: R. Lane) (Tree, BMI) (2:59)This top-notch singer gives his all on this ballad, telling the womanhe loves that he'll be there when her fair-weather friends let her down.

NOEL-Super Productions 642LUCKY ME (prod.: Allen Cash) (writer: N. Haughrey) (Foxtall/Sir Dale,

ASCAP) (2:41)Noel's special vocal sound spices her lively single debut, a self -pennedtune with an irresistible beat.

STAN HITCHCOCK-Ramblin. 1711SHE SINGS AMAZING GRACE (prod.: not listed) (writers: J. Foster, B. Rice)

(April, ASCAP) (2:58)Hitchcock's Ramblin' debut is a catchy, warm tune about a love mis-match that somehow works, though she's hymns and he's honky tonks.

ROY CLARK-MCA 51079SHE CAN'T GIVE IT AWAY (prod.: Larry Butler) (writers: C. Putman.

S. Throckmorton) (Tree, BMI) (3:40)This sad, gentle story of a faded rose is pulled from Clark's current"Back to the Country" LP.

JOHNNY CASH-Columbia 11-60516THE BARON (prod.: Billy Sherrill) (writers: P. Richey, J. Taylor, B. Sherrill)

(First Lady/Sylvia's Mother/Algee, BMI) (3:36)Cash teams with producer Sherrill for a gripping story -song that re-lates an unusual poolhall drama.

CountryAlbum Picks

FEELS SO RIGHTALABAMA-RCA AHLI-3930This outstanding album by one of coun-try music's most exciting groups featuresAlabama's clean, crisp sound and fine ma-terial. Standouts include the title cut, awarm ballad; "Old Flame," the band'scurrent hit; plus "Love in the First De-gree and "Fantasy."

LEATHER AND LACEWAYLON AND JESSI-RCA AAL1-3931Jennings and Colter offer sensitive mate-rial produced with a gentle, subtle touch,and the result is a highly commercial LPfeaturing such highpoints as their currenthit "Storms Never Last," "You Never CanTell," "Wild Side of Life," and "I'll BeAlright."

HEY JOE/HEY MOEMOE BANDY & JOE STAMPLEY-Columbia FC 37003

Moe and Joe have struck a winning com-bination with their sassy, down-homeduets, and this LP provides just what theirlisteners want to hear. Special cuts includetheir new single, the title cut; "HonkyTonk Queen," and "Drinkin', Dancin'."

SEVEN YEAR ACHEROSEANNE CASH-Columbia JC 36965The title single is spearheading the wayfor this LP, which has the potential tosucceed in several formats. Roseannemixes rock, country, and rockabilly in herdistinctive fashion on such standout cutsas "You Don't Have Very Far to Go,""Where Will the Words Come From,""My Baby Thinks He's a Train," andothers.

COME WITH MENANA MOUSKOURI-Grand GLP 80,000This Larry Butler production presents thesweet -voiced European star on qualitymaterial such as "Someone Is Looking forSomeone Like You," "When I Dream,""Love Ain't the Question," and the titletune.

Radio DocumentaryOf Reeves' Career

Set for ProductionII NASHVILLE-Mary Reeves Da-vis, president of Jim Reeves En-terprises, has announced that anauthorized Jim Reeves radio doc-umentary will be available fordistribution later this year.

New MaterialDavis said the documentary,

which she is researching withTom Perryman and which is be-ing produced by BBC Radio, willcontain never -before -used infor-mation and interviews, includingpersonal reflections by Davis, andby childhood friends and fellowartists who knew Reeves closely.

'MAQ To Sponsor'CountryFair '81'IN CHICAGO - Radio stationWMAQ will sponsor "Country -Fair '81" March 20-22 at thedowntown Hyatt Regency Hotelhere. The station and Celebra-tion/Flipside Produtcions co -pro-duced last year's "CountryFest," atwo-day event which drew over30,000 people to Chicago's Inter-national Amphitheatre.

According to Robert Chimber-off, the station's advertising andpromotion coordinator, WMAQprofits only from booth spacesales to vendors of food and mer-chandise. The festival will includeover a dozen country artists, andabout 100 booth exhibitors.



crocord World -unt AlbumsMARCH 7, 1981

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1 1 KENNY ROGERS'GREATEST HITS

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2 2 HORIZON EDDIE RABBITT/Elektra 6E 276 34

3 3 9 TO 5 AND ODD JOBS DOLLY PARTCN/RCA AHL1 3378 13

4 4 ANNE MURRAY'S GREATEST HITS/Capitol SOO 12110 22

5 5 RONNIE MILSAP'S GREATEST HITS/RCA AHL1 3772 20

6 6 I BELIEVE IN YOU DON WILLIAMS/MCA 5133 20

7 7 THE OAK RIDGE BOYS GREATEST HITS/MCA 5150 17

8 8 HONEYSUCKLE ROSE (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) WILLIENELSON & FAMILY/Columbia S2 36752 26

9 10 ROWDY HANK WILLIAMS, JR./Elektra/Curb 6E 330 5

10 11 GP.EATEST HITS WAYLON JENNINGS/RCA AHL1 3378 95

11 9 URBAN COWBOY (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/Full Moon/Asylum DP 90002 42

12 13 LOOKIN' FOR LOVE JOHNNY LEE/Full Moon/Asylum 6E309 17

28 EVANGELINE EMMYLOU HARRIS/Warner Bros. BSK 3508 3

14 14 STARDUST WILLIE NELSON/Columbic KC 35305 146

19 SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN' TERRI GIBBS/MCA 5137 5

16 17 FULL MOON CHARLIE DANIELS BAND/Epic FE 36571 30

17 16 I AM WHAT I AM GEORGE JONES/Epic JE 36586 24

18 15 BACK TO THE BARROOMS MERLE HAGGARD/MCA 5236 23

19 18 LOVE IS FAIR BARBARA MANDRELL/MCA 5136 17

20 20 SAN ANTONIO ROSE WILLIE NELSON & RAY PRICE/Columbia JC 36476 37

21 12 ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/Warner/Viva HS 3499 12

22 26 MY HOME'S IN ALABAMA ALABAMA/RCA AHL1 3644 38

110 29 WILLIE AND FAMILY LIVE WILLIE NELSON/Columbia KC2 35642 117

24 21 TEXAS IN MY REAR VIEW MIRROR MAC DAVIS/Casablanca NBLP 7239 (PolyGram) 21

25 23 URBAN COWBOY II (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/Full Moon/Epic SE 36921 9

26 30 THE GAMBLER KENNY ROGERS/United Artists UA LA 934 H 115

27 25 BEST OF EDDIE RABBITT/Elektra 6E 235 67

28 24 ENCORE MICKEY GILLEY/Epic JE 36851 16

29 22 MUSIC MAN WAYLON JENNINGS/RCA AHL1 3602 39

30 27 THE BEST OF THE KENDALLS/Ovat,on OV 1756 11

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- TWO'S A PARTY CONWAY & LORETTA/MCA 5778 1

34 31 TEN YEARS OF GOLD KENNY ROGERS/United ArtistsLA 835 H 166

Jim Owens Slates TV Specials NASHVILLE-Jim Owens, presi-dent of Jim Owens Enterprises,has announced that Jim OwensProductions will produce fourtwo-hour country music -orientedTV specials this year in associa-tion with Multimedia ProgramProductions, Inc. of Cincinnati.

Don Dahlman, executive VP of,MPPI, said an "outstanding num-ber of station clearances and(good) ratings" were earned bylast year's joint Owens/Multi-media productions: "Hank Wil-liams: the Man and His Music,""A Tribute to Chet Atkins FromHis Friends," and "The 14th An-

nual Music City News CountryAwards."

Owens will videotape "MusicCity News Top Country Hits ofthe Year" April 1 at the GrandOle Opry House here. "The 15thAnnual Music City News CountryAwards" will be televised livefrom the Grand Ole Opry Houseon June 8.

Owens' third special this yearwill be "Country Galaxy of Stars,"featuring Mel Tillis, to be filmedaround September. Late in theyear Owens will tape another"Tribute to . . ." show, spotlight-ing another country music great.

35 34 THESE DAYS CRYSTAL GAYLE/Columbia JC 36512 24

36 35 STRAIGHT AHEAD LARRY GATLIN & THE GATLINBROTHERS BAND/Columbia KC 36250 72

37 37 GUITAR MAN ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA AALI 3917 3

38 33 WHO'S CHEATIN' WHO CHARLY McCLAIN/Epic JE 36730 13

39 32 INVICTUS MEANS UNCONQUERED DAVID ALLAN COE/Columbia JC 36970 4

40 38 GREATEST HITS LARRY GATLIN & THE GATLINBROTHERS BAND/Columbia KC 36488 100

41 36 CLASSIC CRYSTAL CRYSTAL GAYLE/United Artists LOO 982 69

42 40 HELP YOURSELF LARRY GATLIN & THE GATLIN BROTHERSBAND/Columbia JC 36582 20

43 41 GIDEON KENNY ROGERS/United Artists LOO 1035 46

44 39 SONGS I LOVE TO SING SLIM WHITMAN/Epic/ClevelandIntl. JE 36786 20

45 42 DREAMLOVERS TANYA TUCKER/MCA 5140 18

46 46 BEST OF THE STATLER BROTHERS/Mercury SRM 1 1037(PolyGram) 264

47 44 10TH ANNIVERSARY STATLER BROTHERS/Mercury SRM1 5027 (PolyGram) 29

48 54 HARD TIMES LACY J. DALTON/Columbia JC 36753 22

49 47 THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS TO ME MICKEY GILLEY/EpicJE 36492 35

50 49 ROSES IN THE SNOW EMMYLOU HARRIS/Warner Bros.BSK 3422 41

51 45 TOGETHER OAK RIDGE BOYS/MCA 3220 52

52 53 SONS OF THE SUN BELLAMY BROTHERS/Warner/CurbBSK 3491 12

53 48 MILLION MILE REFLECTIONS CHARLIE DANIELS BAND/Epic KE 35751 94

54 43 KENNY KENNY ROGERS/United Artist LWAK 979 75

55 64 JUST GOOD OLE BOYS MOE BANDY & JOE STAMPLEY/Columbia JC 36202 71

WILD WEST DOTTIE WEST/Liberty LT 1062 1

70 A WOMAN'S HEART CRYSTAL GAYLE/Liberty LOO 1080 13

52 HANK WILLIAMS, SR. 24 GREATEST HITS/MGM SE 4755 29

55 OAK RIDGE BOYS HAVE ARRIVED/MCA AY 1135 99

60 WILLIE NELSON SINGS KRISTOFFERSON/Columbia JC 36188 67

63 CLASSICS KENNY ROGERS & DOTTIE WEST/United ArtistsLA 946 H 98

62 56 SMOOTH SAILIN' T.G. SHEPPARD/Warner/Curb BSK 3423 3

63 57 REST YOUR LOVE ON ME CONWAY TWITTY/MCA 5138 28

64 73 BLUE KENTUCKY GIRL EMMYLOU HARRIS/Warner Bros.BSK 3318 94

65 62 BEST OF THE STATLER BROTHERS RIDES AGAIN,VOL. II/Mercury SRM 1 5024 (PolyGram) 58

66 50 IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBLE MAC DAVIS/CasablancaNBLP 7202 (PolyGram) 48

67 59 ELECTRIC HORSEMAN FEATURING WILLIE NELSON(ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/Columbia JS 36327 59

68 69 BEST OF BARBARA MANDRELL/MCA AY 1119 107

69 67 HABITS OLD AND NEW HANK WILLIAMS, JR./Elektra/Curb 6E 278 37

70 51 IT'S THE WORLD GONE CRAZY GLEN CAMPBELL/Capitol SOO 12124 4

71 58 WAYLON & WILLIE WAYLON JENNINGS & WILLIENELSON/RCA AFL1 2686 51

72 68 FRIDAY NIGHT BLUES JOHN CONLEE/MCA 3246 35

73 72 COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)/MCA 5107 49

74 66 SOUTHERN RAIN MEL TILLIS/Elektra 6E 277 12

75 75 RAZZY BAILEY/RCA AHL1 3688 26

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Epic artist Charlie Daniels and MCA'sBrenda Lee are the long and short of itas they co-chair the first -ever NationalKidney Foundation Radiothon, which airsthe weekend of March 7. WSM radio'sRalph Emery hosts the radiothon, broad-cast from WSM in Nashville, and producedand scripted by Gayle Hill.

Dimension Signs PriceIN NASHVILLE-Ken Stilts, presi-dent of Dimension Records, hasannounced signing Ray Price toan exclusive recording agreement.

'In -Depth' PlansDimension VP and A&R direc-

tor Ray Pennington said he hasproduced over 30 songs sung byPrice, whose first single for thelabel, "Getting Over You," is dueout soon. The label has retainedImage PR Ltd. to promote Price.George Cooper III, Dimension'sVP in charge of sales, merchan-dising, and promotion, said thelabel has "in-depth" marketingplans for Price product.



El 12 GUITAR MAN ELVIS PRESLEY/RCA 12158 8

6 2 SOUTHERN RAINS MEL TILLIS/Elektra 47082 12

14 WANDERING EYES RONNIE McDOWELL/Epic 19 50962 11

8 9 CUP OF TEA REX ALLEN, JR. & MARGO SMITH/WarnerBros. 49626 12

15 DRIFTER SYLVIA/RCA 12164

13 WHAT'S NEW WITH YOU CON HUNLEY/Warner Bros. 49613 11

16 IF DRINKIN' DON'T KILL ME (HER MEMORY WILL) GEORGEJONES/Epic 19 50968 8

3 WHO'S CHEATIN' WHO CHARLY McCLAIN/Epic 19 50948 14

18 THIRTY-NINE AND HOLDING JERRY LEE LEWIS/Elektra47095 8

20 YOU'RE THE REASON GOD MADE OKLAHOMA DAVIDFRIZZELL & SHELLY WEST/Warner/Viva 49650 8

21 WHAT I HAD WITH YOU JOHN CONLEE/MCA 51044 7

23 TEXAS WOMAN HANK WILLIAMS, JR./Elektra/Curb 47102 5

22 SOMETHIN' ON THE RADIO JACKY WARD/Mercury 57044(PolyGram) 7

18 8 HILLBILLY GIRL WITH THE BLUES LACY J. DALTON/Columbia 11 11410 12

ICI 26 I'M GONNA LOVE YOU BACK TO LOVING ME AGAINJOE STAMPLEY/Epic 19 50972 8

24 YOUR GOOD GIRL IS GONNA GO BAD BILLIE JO SPEARS/Liberty 1395 9

in 27 PICKIN' UP STRANGERS JOHNNY LEE/Full Moon/Asylum47105 4

25 LOVIN' WHAT YOUR LOVIN' DOES TO ME CONWAYTWITTY & LORETTA LYNN/MCA 51050 6

23 6 I'LL BE THERE IF YOU EVER WANT ME GAIL DAVIES/Warner Bros. 59592 14

30 OLD FLAME ALABAMA/RCA 12169 4

25 28 I HAVE A DREAM CRISTY LANE/Liberty 1396 8

31 LOVE IS FAIR/SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOWBARBARA MANDRELL/MCA 51062 5

33 CRYING DON McLEAN/Millennium 1799 6

34 TAKE IT EASY CRYSTAL GAYLE/Columbia 11 '11436 5

10 SILENT TREATMENT EARL THOMAS CONLEY/Sunbird 7556 15

37 A HEADACHE TOMORROW (OR A HEARTACHE TONIGHT)MICKEY GILLEY/Epic 19 50973

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32 35 PEACE OF MIND EDDY RAVEN/Dimension 101733 36 DIXIE MAN RANDY BARLOW/P.A.I.D. 116

39 TOO LONG GONE VERN GOSDIN/Ovation 116340 LEONARD MERLE HAGGARD/MCA 51048

42 FALLING AGAIN DON WILLIAMS/MCA 5106541 PERFECT FOOL DEBBY BOONE/Warner/Curb 4965243 REST YOUR LOVE ON ME/I AM ,THE DREAMER CONWAY

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In 46 HOOKED ON MUSIC MAC DAVIS/Casablanca 2327(PolyGram) 3

45 IT DON'T GET NO BETTER THAN THIS LARRY GATLIN &THE GATLIN BROTHERS BAND/Columbia 11 11438 4

1131 51 STORMS NEVER LAST WAYLON & JESSI/RCA 12176 3

42 44 ANY WAY YOU WANT ME GENE WATSON/Warner/Viva49648 5

EH54 SEVEN YEAR ACHE ROSANNE CASH/Columbia 11 11426 4

48 IT WAS YOU BILLY -CRASH- CRADDOCK/Capitol 4972 4

45 47 20/20 HINDSIGHT BILLY LARKIN/Sunbird 7557 9

ED 50 IT'S A HEARTACHE DAVE & SUGAR/RCA 12168 5

47 49 COMPLETELY OUT OF LOVE MARTY ROBBINS/Columbia11 11425 5

52 I REMEMBER YOU SLIM WHITMAN/Epic/Cleveland Intl.19 50971 5

CCI 56 ARE WE DREAMIN' THE SAME DREAM CHARLIE RICH/Elektra 47104 4

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59 ONE MORE LAST CHANCE RAY STEVENS/RCA 12170 466 SOMEBODY LED ME AWAY LORETTA LYNN/MCA 51058 2

53 55 BLUE COLLAR BLUES MUNDO EARWOOD/Excelsior 1005 454 58 DIXIE ROAD KING EDWARD IV AND THE KNIGHTS/

Soundwaves 4626 555 57 MY TURN DONNA HAZARD/Excelsior 1004 756 11 DON'T LOOK NOW (BUT WE JUST FELL IN LOVE) EDDY

ARNOLD/RCA 12136 1457 17 1959 JOHN ANDERSON/Warner Bros. 49582 15

73 BETWEEN THIS TIME AND THE NEXT TIME GENEWATSON/MCA 51039 2

59 61 I DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOUR NAME GLEN CAMPBELL/Capitol 4959 6

60 68 DOESN'T ANYBODY GET HIGH ON LOVE ANYMORESHOPPE/NSD 80 2

79 WASN'T THAT A PARTY ROVERS/Epic/Cleveland Intl.19 51007 2

69 MISTER PEEPERS BILL ANDERSON/MCA 51052 3

63 - IF I KEEP ON GOING CRAZY LEON EVERETTE/RCA 12177 1

64 67 WILLIE, WON'T YOU SING A SONG WITH ME GEORGEBURNS/Mercury 57045 (PolyGram) 4In 72 ANYTHING THAT HURTS YOU (HURTS ME) KEITH STEGALL/

Capitol 4967 466 19 DON'T YOU EVER GET TIRED OF HURTING ME WILLIE

NELSON & RAY PRICE/Columbia 11 11405 1467 - MISTER SANDMAN EMMYLOU HARRIS/Warner Bros. 49684 1

68 29 I FEEL LIKE LOVING YOU AGAIN T.G. SHEPPARD/Warner/Curb 49615 13

69 - ALICE DOESN'T LOVE HERE ANYMORE BOBBYGOLDSBORO/CBS/Curb 6 70052 1

70 ANGEL OF THE MORNING JUICE NEWTON/Capitol 4976 1

71 32 WILLIE JONES BOBBY BARE/Columbia 11 11408 12- CHEATIN'S A TWO WAY STREET SAMMI SMITH/SoundEDFactory 427 1

73 80 LOVERS LOVE THRASHER BROTHERS/MCA 51049 274 53 I KEEP COMING BACK/TRUE LIFE COUNTRY MUSIC

RAZZY BAILEY/RCA 12120 1575 64 SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD EAGLES/Asylum 47100 876 62 9 TO 5 DOLLY PARTON/RCA 12133 1477 60 YOUR MEMORY STEVE WARINER/RCA 12139 1678 63 ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN GLEN CAMPBELL/Warner/

Viva 49609 1579 75 KILLIN' TIME FRED KNOBLOCK & SUSAN ANTON/Scotti

Brothers 609 (At') 11

80 BRIDGE OVER BROADWAY CAPITALS/Ridgetop 01281 1

81 71 FOLLOWING THE FEELING MOE BANDY & JUDY BAILEY/Columbia 11 11395 14

82 88 MY SONG DON'T SING THE SAME KRIS CARPENTER/Door Knob 81 146 3- THERE'S A CRAZY MAN JODY PAYNE/Kari 117 1

84 65 A LOSER'S NIGHT OUT JACK GRAYSON/Koala 328 1285 70 YOU BETTER MOVE ON GEORGE JONES & JOHNNY

PAYCHECK/Epic 19 50949 1386 87 BETTER SIDE OF THIRTY BILLY PARKER/Oak 47565 387 74 FOOL THAT I AM RITA COOLIDGE/A&M 2281 7- HOLD ME LIKE YOU NEVER HAD ME RANDY PARTON/

RCA 12137 1

89 97 I THINK I COULD LOVE YOU BETTER THAN SHE DID AVABARBER/Oak 1029 2

90 - FIRE IN YOUR EYES GARY MORRIS/Warner Bros. 49668 1

91 76 SHE'S A FRIEND OF A FRIEND BURRITO BROTHERS/Curb6 5402 8

92 98 I WANT TO SEE ME IN YOUR EYES GENE KENNEDY &KAREN JEGLUM/Door Knob 81 145 2

93 - TAKE ME BACK TO THE COUNTRY BAXTER, BAXTER &BAXTER/Sun 1160 1

94 77 READY FOR THE TIMES TO GET BETTER JOE SUN/Ovation1162 10

95 - STAND BY YOUR MAN DAVID ALLAN COE/Columbia 1160501 1

96 - IT'S MY JOB JIMMY BUFFETT/MCA 51061 1

97 DON'T EVER LEAVE ME AGAIN MAX D. BARNES/Ovation1164 1

98 SAD OLE SHADE OF GRAY JEANNE PRUETT/IBC/P.A.I.D. 118 1

99 96 TEXAS PROUD CURTIS POTTER/Hillside 81 01 4100 86 TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE

JOHNNY CARVER/MCA 51072 3


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Ten new songs from the 1980 Country MusicAssociation Vocal Duo of The Year and TheAcademy of Country Music Vocal Group ofThe Year. Featuring the single: "Hey Joe(Hey Moe)" 11 60508 from the album

Hey Joe! Hey Moe! FC 37003

The exciting new album from

Moe Bandy & Joe StampleyProduced by: Ray Baker

On Columbia Records & Tapes

Management Ray Baker 1609 Hawkins Nashville, Tn. 37203 615-325-1323 Booking Agency: Encore Talent 2137 Zercher Rd. San Antonio, Tx 78209 512-822-2655

Columbian are trademarks of CBS Inc c 1980 CBS Inc


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FEATURING THE SMASH SINGLE "JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME" -4975

51981 Capitol Records. Inc.


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