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THE INDUSTRY'S NEWSPAPERVOLUME 3, NUMBER 4

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1975

R&R's First Seminar-Atlanta

The first R&R Seminar -Convention has capturedthe headlines this week. We have designed it soeveryone can afford to attend. The program and theformat of presentation will be unique. We havestrived to present the most importantprogrammers in today'scontemporary radio. R&Rwill not have Country meetings this time becausethe Country Radio Seminar occurs in Nashville theweekend before our convention. We invite all radiopeople, from all formats, to attend because of thespecial ARB presentations and several other keyprograms we will be having. The convention is opento everyone in radio and records, you do not have tobe a subscriber to attend. Full details on page 3.

MOON OUT OVERSAN DIEGO

Moon Mullins is out at KSON-San Diego. Mullinswas hired just a month ago as Program Director.According to Mullins "I was fired because the staffmembers would never cooperate with me. KSONfelt they needed a better state of station morale andleadership for the upcoming ARB." Bert Whalen,KSON general manager, told R&R they were happywith the rating results in Oct -Nov and wanted tostay with the same staff and team spirit.EdChandler has been named acting PD.

DALLAS:KA FM switched from Rock to a Country format.

WASH D.C.SHAKES UP

Last week it was Hary Moore out at WPGC, thisweek Jim Elliott resigned his PD position at WEAMto become the new music director and midday jockat WPGC. Simon Trane is the new PD at WEAM, hewas formerly a jock at WRC.

SAN ANTONIO

Ken Dowe exits KNUS-Dallas to become the VPof Waterman Broadcasting and general manager ofKTSA-San Antonio. Bart McClendon will take overas GM at KNUS.

Minnie Ripertonvvill be forever:.CC

I 40-Vrin"The Most Promising Female Vocalist"-Billboard MagazineNAACP Image Award Female Vocalist of the YearGavin Personal Pick

And now, her new single,"Lovin' You," from her fantastic album; `PerfectAngel,",3,. is a Top -40 hit as well as R&B: WFIL; WIBG; WIP; Will;W102; WDRQ; WIXY; KQV; KYA; WIFE; K101; WLNG; WIND;KRKO; VVLOF, KAAY; VVKY; WQPD; WHOT; WKWK; WBLS;VVNJR; WHAT; WOKJ; WDAS; WFSL; KPRS; WAWA; WTLC;WKIA;VULB; \YVON; WAMM,WAMO;KGFJ, KDAY; KJLH-FM;KRE; KOKY; KALO, WPIX.

Minnie RipertonPe/feet Angel

including:Reasons/The Edge Of A Dream/Lovin' You

Take A Little Trip/Seeing You This Way

On Epic Records

JUST ADDED99X, WSAI

Minnie RipertonPerfect Angel

including:Reasons/The Edge Of A Drearn/Lovin' You

Take A Little Trip/Seeing You This Way

*Also available on tape1975 CBS Inc

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RADIOKFI Goes To ABC After43 -Year NBC Affiliation

KFI-Los Angeles will drop theNBC network effective April 6after 43 years and will pick upABC Entertainment network thenext day. ABC Entertainmentwas formerly with KIIS-L.A.Rumors to the effect that theentire Cox Broadcasting chainwill drop NBC are not true at thistime.

KHJ MONEY MUSICKHJ-Los Angeles running

"Money Music." Listeners call inand win $25 if they can identifythe first song in 5 seconds. Prizemoney escalates up to $1000 ifthey can identify it in one second.WVOV INFLATION FIGHTERSWVOV-Huntsville now has the

"Huntsville Inflation Fighters"giving away 10 lb. bags of sugar tolisteners that can give aninflation -fighting tip on the air.

COMEDY MATERIALWBBQ-Augusta, P.D. Harley

Drew suggests that jocks andprogrammers who are looking fora bit of fresh comedy material tryout a Memphis young hig h-schooler. According to Harley, he

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WFTL GOLD RUSHWFTL-Ft. Lauderdale

promoting the "Gold Coast GoldRush," giving away 2 ounce barsof gold and a trip to the GoldenGate Bridge. Mystery locationtype contest, to find the "MysteryGold Stash."

BRANDO KNX INTERVIEWKNX-FM - Los Angeles pulled a

coup and got Marlon Brando .togrant them an interview.Christopher Ames hosted the twohour special.

BLASE CHANGES SADDLESChris Blase has joined R&R as

Radio Editor. A five year radioveteran, she spent two years asMusic Director - ProgrammingAssistant at KKDJ, L.A.

KMET GREAT ARTISTWEEKEND

KM ET -Los Angeles featured"The Great Artist Weekend" (1-25, 1-26). Some of the guest jocksincluded Rick Wakeman,America, Edgar Winter, RickDerringer, Dave Mason, KeithMoon, Robin Trower, with thespecial winding up with EltonJohn sitting behind the mike onSunday afternoon.

WCLG-McDONALDS PROMOWCLG-FM-AM - Morgantown

teamed up with McDonalds for avery effective promotion based onthe current "Two AllBeef Patties SpecialSauce .. . ". Phone in contestantshave 4 seconds to say the wholeslogan and win 1.5 gift certificatesfrom McDonalds. PD BobSherman reports that phone callsare unbelievable with everyonefrom kids to grandparents tryingto win.

KWHP 'BANK HEIST'KWHP-Edmund running a one

of a kind promotion, "The GreatBank Heist." Listeners qualify

Los Angeles' oldies radio stationKRTH's own super -hero, CaptainK-.. Earth met with Mayor TomBradley at the Los Angeles CityHall this week. Captain K -Earthpresented Mayor Bradley with anofficial decret decoder, andassured him that he is committedto do whatever is necessary touphold truth, justice and theAmerican way.

for grand prize of 97 seconds inthe vault of the Will Rogers Bankin Oklahoma City, ripping off asmuch money as they can put ontheir person in the time alloted.Runner-up prizes include 97seconds in grocery stores and gasstations.

KFXM NOW 99XKXFM-Santa Maria has a new

identity: 99X. This week they aregiving away album 6 -packs of the99 top albums in the country alongwith Rockin' Stereo 99X T. Shirts.This week will be capped off withthe Stones - Beatles Boogieweekend. New format for thestation which serves Santa Maria,San Luis Obispo and SantaBarbara County is day partedcontemporary rock. ChuckGeiger is PD -MD, station isconsulted by Paul Fredrix.

WLS music director Jim Smithand program director JohnGehron stand on chairs behindsome of the mail entries for thestation's Disney Worldpromotion. "We started outcounting the envelopes as theycame in," said station managerMarty Greenberg. "Then wedecided to estimate by countingbags. Now I think we've even losttrack of that figure."

What does a night jock in Buffalo do to keep warm when there's a foot ofsnow on the ground and the wind chill is -10? WKBW's Jim Quinn held aBikini Contest. Shown with Jim is Sylvia Sliwa who was the first toarrive at the station in the sub -zero weather to claim her $50 prize.

As reported last week in R&R, WLS is giving away over one hundredtrips on Amtrak to Disney World in Orlando. Mickey and Donald andfolks showed up at WLS studios to cut voice tracks for on -air promos.Here Mickey and Donald are joined by WLS announcers (from left)John Landecker, Bob Sirott, J.J. Jeffrey (seated) Fred Winston,Yvonne Daniels, and Steve King.

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Bob Shannon, mornings on KDWB, has become the "Newest member of the W.H.A.Minnesota Fighting Saints." Bob went into action January 22nd when the Saints metthe Vancouver Blazers. Shannon played the right winger position with a chance forspectators to take shots on goal with Shannon as a goalie between periods. Picturedleft to right are Rick Smith, John Garrett, Shannon and John Arbour.

RADIO & RECORDS FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1975 II

ARBreakdownsLEGEND:

R: Rock, M: Pop/MOR, 0: Oldies,C: Country, N: News, T: Talk,BM: Beautiful Music, B: Black,SP: Spanish, P: Progressive, CLS: Classi-cal.

COLUMBUS, OHIO

VVB NSVVBNS-FMWCOLWCOL-FMVVMNIWNCIWRFDWTVNWTVN-FMWVKO

TEENSVVCOLWNC1WCOL-FM

Mon -Sun 6am-1 2mid

Four Book Trehd Total 12+av % hr shares

A/M 73 0/N 73 A/M 748.8 11.1 12.411.3 11.4 9.215.1 13.4 14.32.3 1.6 2.09.0 8.7 6.95.5 5.0 7.72.8 4.9 2.917.8 15.6 14.23.0 3.7 3.07.2 3.7 6.9

46.314.02.9

41.517.03.7

43.717.23.3

0/N 749.98.113.53.49.66.73.216.14.06.2

33.122.37.4

NASHVILLEMON-SUN 6a nv-1 2mid av Y. hr. shares TOTAL 12+

A/M '7 3 0/N '7 3 A/M '7 4 0/N'74WBYQ (0) 1;2 3.9 4.4WENO (C) 4.5 3.7 3.1 2.2WKDA (C) 5.4 5.8 3.1 2.9WKDA-FM (P) 9.1 6.7 7.8 6.1

WLAC (M) 3.7 6.2 8.0 7.2WLAC-FM (BM) 10.6 6.0 5.7 7.5WMAK (R) 20.9 16.4 12.1 10.0WSIX (MI 6.0 6.5 5.5 7.2WSIX-FM (C) 3.9 6.7 7.4 7.9WSM (M) 11.0 13.5 11.2 13.6WSM-FM (BM) 5.0 4.7 5.3 5.5WVOL (B) 7.6 6.0 10.3 8.1

TEENSWBYQ - 1.0 6.7 2.0WKDA-FM 13.9 15.6 25.0 13.3WLAC 2.8 11.5 16.3 17.3WMAK 44.4 33.3 18.3 23.5WVOL 19.4 12.5 16.3 15.3

PHOENIXMON-SUN 6a rn-1 2rnid av Y. hr. shares TOTAL 12+

A/M '7 3 0/N '7 3 A/M '74 0/N '74KBBC (R) - 2.4 2.3 4.0KDKB-FM IP) 4.3 4.0 4.7 5.2KIFN (SP) 8.4 6.8 3.1 5.7KJJJ (C) 4.0 7.1 7.9 5.5KMEO-FM (BM) 4.2 5.6 6.9 6.3KOOL (MI 7.7 9.8 8.5 7.1KOY (M) 6.2 7.3 5.7 7.9KRFM (BM) 8.6 6.0 7.1 6.5KRIZ (R) 8.1 7.1 6.5 7.5KRUX (R) 4.2 3.5 4.1 3.2KTAR (N) 2.8 6.7 6.7 7.5KUPD (R) 5.0 3.8 4.6 2.9KUPD-FM (R) 1.0 .4 1.6 1.9

TEENSKBBC -- 3.1 36 17.0KDKB-FM 7.2 9.9 7.1 9.6KRIZ 23.9 27.1 25.6 26.6KRUX 11.1 11.5 21.4 12.8KUPD 21.7 19.8 21.4 12.8

PORTLAND(ORE.)

MON-SUN 6arn-1 2mid av 1/4 hr. shares TOTAL 12+A/M '7 3 0/N '73 A/M '74 0/N '74

KEX (M) 6.2 7.4 8.7 7.0KGON (R) -- -- 1.5 31KGW (R) 12.7 12.1 12.7 10.6KINK (R) 1.3 2.9 2.6 alKISN (R) 8.3 9.4 8.3 7.8KOIN IM) 4.6 6.3 4.0 4.9KPAM (R) 5.0 3.7 4.8 4.7KWJJ (C) 8.0 8.5 9.2 7.9KXL IBM) 8.9 9.0 6.9 8.3KVXI (BM) 11.0 9.2 9.6 8.0

TEENSKGW 25.5 28.5 30.0 25.7KISN 27.7 35.4 30.0 27.7KPAM 12.8 8.3 18.7 20.9

MEMPHISMON-SUN 6am-1 2 mid av Y. hr. shares TOTAL 12+

NM 73 0/N '73 A/M '74 0/N '74WDIA (B) 16.4 16.7 11.1 11.3WEZI (BM) 4.2 9.6 6.2 6.3WHBQ (11) 13.6 10.1 8.6 10.3WLOK (R) 7.1 7.5 5.1 8.6WMC (C) 10.4 11.9 15.3 14.3WMC-FM (R) 5.0 4.9 6.8 8.1WMPS (R( 8.3 6.8 13.2 11.0WREC (M) 12.1 11.3 10.3 7.9WWEE (T) -- 3.4 2.1 4.0

TEENSWDIA 27.6 25.4 18.9 13.1WHBQ 35.1 28.7 27.0 26.3WLOK 11.9 12.3 8.1 19.7WMC-FM 4.5 9.8 11.7 13.9WMPS 12.7 11,5 18.0 15.3

KANSAS CITYMON-SUN 6am-1 2mid av' hr. shares TOTAL 12+

NM '73KBEQ (R) --KCKN (C) 3.4KCKN-FM (C) 3.1KCMO (MI 8.2KMBR (BM) 8.9KMBZ (MI 20.7KPRS (B) 1.8KPRT (B)KUDL (0) 4.4KUDL-FM (0) 1.8KVVKI (P1 2.3KYYS (P) -WDAF (0) 6.8WHB (R) 13.5

TEENSKBEQKPRSKUDLKUDL-FMKWKIKYYSWHB

5.616.23.45.0

34.6

0/N '73 A/M '74 0/N '745.2 6.2 7.24.2 3.8 4.03.9 4.2 3.89.5 8.9 8.19.2 9.7 9.311.1 14.8 12.28.9 2.8 4.6- - 3.23.2 3.0 2.44.3 2.8 1.71.3 1.9 1.2-- .. 2.97.0 7.4 6.510.6 10.6 11.2

16.730.46.4393.4

16.7

24.78.67.64.535

21.7

30.29.43.05.94.06.823.3

LOUISVILLEMON-SUN 6a rn-1 2mid av ''4 hr. shares TOTAL 12+

A/M '7 3 0/N '73 NM '74 0/N '74WAKY (11) 13.3 14.8 12.9 18.8WAVE (M) 14.4 15.0 17.1 13.5WHAS (M) 7.3 8.4 11.1 9.4WINN (C) 8.0 8.1 7.3 7.7WKLO (R) 17.3 12.6 12.8 9.0WLOU (B) 8.3 6.8 6.3 5.9WLRS (P1 2.6 35 4.6 4.3WQHI (R) -- .5 4.3WTMT IBM) 37 5.8 32 4.8WVEZ (BM) - - -- 5.3WXVS (0) 1.7 1.7 2.8 1.9

TEENSWAKY 29.3 30.5 29.4 48.8WKLO 42.0 36.6 34.7. 14.8WLOU 10.8 9.9 11.2 9.9WLRS 2.5 2.3 10.0 7.4WQHI - -- 1.2 6.8

DAYTONTRENDS MON-SUN 6arn-12mid as'/. hr sahres TOTAL 12+

A/M '73 0/N '73 NM '74 0/N '74VVAVI (N) 5.9 5.2 7.4 - 7.5WDAO (B) 4.1 5.5WI -110 (MI 19.8 15.9WHIO-FM IBM) 14.5 15,2WING (M) 14.1 10.9WONE (C) 10.4 10.0WTUE (R) 8.0 11.3WVUD (P) 4.3 5.8

TEENSWDAOWHIOWINGWTUEWVUD

9.38.425.237.45.6

11.13.216.744.49.5

5.417.411.910.29.411.67.3

13.15.514.4 -32.717.0

8.813.115.410.79:36.4

6 .5

16.47.113337.515.6

ROCHESTERTRENDS MON-SUN eam-12mid as ''4 hr shares TOTAL 12+

A/M '73 0/N '73 NM "74 0/N '74WAXC (R) 11.4 9.3 10.8 7.2

WBBF (R) 11.2 8.1 9.8 10.3

WCMF (P) 5.2 4.9 2.3 3.1

WEZO IBM) 18.9 23.5 17.9 16.0

Continued in next column

ROCHESTERContinued from preceding column

WHAM (M)WHFM (R)WNYR (C)WROC (0)WSAY (P)

TEENSWAXCWBBFWCMFWHFMWSAY

21.13.26.04.0.9

26.630.68.15.62.4

21.83.47.72.71.0

27.723.88.511.51.5

21.02.89.3331.4

28.633.65.04.32.9

25.13.77.84.02.1

20.330.94.910.64.9

PROVIDENCEPROVIDENCE/WARWICK/PAWTUCKET

TRENDS MON-SUN Gam-12mid as '4 hr. shares TOTAL 12+

A/M '73WBRU (P) 3.7WEAN (MI 6.7WGNG (R) 7.4WHIM (C) 4.2WHIM -FM (C) 4.1WICE (T) 4.3WJAR (0) 14.1KLKW (BM) 5.3WLKW-FM (BM) 9.8WPRO IR) 15.3WPRO-FM (RI 2.9

TEENSWBRUWGNGWJARWPROWPRO-FM

3.024.12.345.9.8

0/N '732.98.06.44.73.73.27.610.010.513.94.2

10.325.96.930.21.7

A/M '743.17.96.42.94.88.48.06.411.312.73.9

4.725.010.928.1.8

0/N '744.25.76.33.34.811.34.35.911.410.27.0

5.925.03.716.222.8

OMAHAOMAHA -COUNCIL BLUFFS

TRENDS MON-SUN Gam-12mid as'/. hr shares TOTAL 12+

KEZO IBM)KFAB (M)KGOR (13)KLNG IT)KOIL (RIK000 (C)KOWH (B)KQKQ (P)WOW (R)

TEENSKGORKOI LKQKQWOW

AM/ '73

25.7

5.420.36.1.8

13.5

0/N '737.329.8

4.011.64.7.8

18.9

7- 1.6 41.7

A/M '746 .925.2

5.813.13.61.6

23.6

41.1

9.9 26.4 32.2

19.124.77.927.0

FRESNOTRENDS MON-SUN Gam-12mid as'/, hr shares TOTAL 12+

KARM IN)KARM-FM (N)KFIG (P)KFRE (MIKFYE (3)KGST (SP)KKNU (BM)KLIP (B)KMAK (C)KM4 (M)KMJ-FM (CLS)KPHD (C)KXEX (SPAN)KYNO (R)

TEENSKFIGKFREKFYEKMAKKMJKYNO

A/M '732.6 "

4.97.18.34.3267.93.410.711.31.32.82.316.2

0/N '735.01.16.77.33.92.410.61.713.112.51.91.72.213.6

A/M '744.6.47.88.25.62.610.04.29.810.82.82.0

118

0/N '743.61.95.37.05.97.97.91.97.911.51.12.32.316.1

10.5 18.9 16.7 9.211.8 5.4 9.7 4.62.6 5.4 18.9 12.33.9 10.8 28 3.1

1.3 2.7 1.4 4.647.4 44.6 40.3 52.3

DES MOINESTRENDS MON-SUN 6am-12mid av 1/4 hr. shares TOTAL 12+

KCBC (MlKFMG (RIKIOA (R)KIOA-FM (P1

A/M '73 0/N '73 /M '742.9 2.8 3.66.8 5.3 6.213.7 14.2 17.5

.8 4.4

Continued in next column

0/N '744.23.917.831

DES MOINESContinued from preceding column

KLYF IBM) 8.8 12.8 11.8 15.6KRNQ (R) 2.8KRNT (M) 19.5 16.8 14.7 10.6KSO (C) 10.7 10.9 12.6 9.7WHO (M) 19.5 19.3 17.5 20.3

TEENSKFMG 13.9 21.1 27.3 20.5KIOA 27.8 21.1 50.0 51.3KIOA-FM 2.6 4.5 7.7KRNQ 2.6KSO 38.9 36.8 6.8 2.6

OKLAHOMA CITYTRENDS MON-SUN 6am-12mid as % hr shares TOTAL 12+

A/M '73 0/N '73 A/M '74 0/N '74KAFG (0) 29 2.3 3.5 2.8KEBC (C) .8 1.5 3.7 4.9KFJL (13) 1.0 4.3 1.8 1.7KKNG (BM) 14.6 9.0 11.7 10.3KLPR (CI 4.6 3.7 3.3 1.7KOCY (MI 4.2 2.4 29 2.9KOFM (R) 10 1.7 3.2 3.9KOMA (RI 9.5 8.6 8.8 9.6KTOK (MI 17.3 24.1 19.2 23.9KXXY (13) 4.7 5.1 6.7 4.6WKY (R) 20.1 19.5 18.6 13.6WNAD (CI .6 .8 2.4 3.6

TEENSKFJLKOMAKXXYWKY

1.122.019.834.1

12.820.215.625.7

5.425.923.227.7

12.525.017.016.1

SAN ANTONIOTRENDS MON-SUN Gam-12mid av 1/4 hr shares TOTAL 12+

A/M '73 0/N '73 A/M '74 0/N '74KAPE (B) 3.2 4.2 4.0 4.2KCOR (SP) 11.5 8.3 9.5 16.5KEDA (SP) 4.2 2.9 5.0 5.0KEXL (P) 4.1 3.2 1.6 2.2

0/N'74 KITE (MI 7.0 7.4 5.3 6.310.0 KKYX (Cl 9.6 9.6 8.2 9.024.5 KONO (.13) 7.8 6.2 7.2 6.87.6 KQXT (13M) 11.0 9.6 9.1 4.96.2 KTFM (P) 2.7 3.0 6.3 3.48.8 KTSA (RI 12.4 12.5 17.2 17.43.9 KUKA (SP) 1.8 4.2 2.3 2.720 WOAI (R) 6.6 5.5 4.7 3-73.6 TEENS18.1 KAPE 1.7 4.2 5.9 27

KEXL 11.4 8.3 3.2 4.4KONO 16.5 13.2 10.8 8.2KTFM 5.1 12.5 15.6 7.1KTSA 36.4 35.4 425 52.7WOAI 6.8 3.5 5.4 2.2

AKRONTRENDS MON-SUN Gam-12mid av 11/, hr shares TOTAL 12+

WAEZ (BM)WAKR (M)WCUE (RIWCUE-FM (P)WHLO (M)WSLR (C)

TEENSWAKRWCUEWCUE-FMWHLO

A/M '73

20.99.94.25.813.9

11.228.614.310.2

0/N '7310.114.07.82.27.211.7

6.927.63.411

A/M '745.018.18.32.03.510.9

11.232.74.1

5.1

0/N '749.320.76.22.34.68.2

13.019.57.85.2

SACRAMENTOTRENDS MON-SUN Gam-12mid as 1/4 hr shares TOTAL 12+

AIM '73 0/N '73 A/M '74 0/N '74KCRA (M) 8.4' 8.7 7.9 9.4KCTC (M) 4.3 7.8 7.0 6.4KEWT IBM) 10.2 7.2 8.9 13.4KEZS (C) - 2.8 37 2.8KFBK (M) 6.9 5.0 6.0 3.0KGMS (M) 7.1 5.3 6.1 4.0KNDE (R) 5.4 5.8 7.4 6.2KRAK IC) 3.8 6.5 7.8 4.8KROY (R) 12.4 11.7 8.8 4.5KSFM (R) .5 - .7 6.0KXOA (R) 4.0 4.3 4.0 3.2KZAP (P) 9.3 5.3 6.0 4.4

TEENSKNDE 137 38.5 27.9 22.9KROY 41.9 37.0 26.0 16.7KSFM - -- 1.9 9.7KXOA .9 1.5 4.5 5.6KZAP 9.4 10.4 8.4 3.5

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RADIO at RECORDS FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1975

RADIODigest Of FCC Technical RulesLICENSES AND AUTHORIZATIONS

( ) License, CP. Renewal cord, PGM testPSA posted

( ) Operator licenses posted & signed (Sec.13.6)

( ) First Class Opr. Employed full time,part time and available promptly

( ) License for Aux., alternate, SCA( ) Remote control authorization( ) 3rd Class licenses with broadcast en-

dorsement

TRANSMITTER

( ) Operating power correct( ) Required meters working/accuracy

( ) Meters incl. ant. base meter labeled( ) Meters have correct scale divisions( ) Normal readings in proper meter range( ) Operator can see meters and monitors( ) Interlock and safety provisions( ) Provision to adjust power output( ) Power change day to night( ) Operators instructed or instructions posted( ) Transmitter readily accessible.( ) Satisfactory efficiency factor( ) Stereo generator turned off during mono.

TOWER AND ANTENNA

( ) Tower lights, photo/switch control( ) Correct orange and white bands on

tower( ) Base fence in good condition( ) Tuning house secure -key with operator

on duty( ) Tower paint clean and in good condition

( ) Remote antenna current agree 2% ofbase meter

( ) Radials buried and in good condition( ) Antenna and transmission line not haz-

ardous( ) Satisfactory field intensity @ 1 mile

STATION MONITORS'

) Antenna monitor installed, and calibrated) Modulation monitor installed and work-

ing

) Peak flasher calibrated and flashing.) Carrier level set reading OK) Maintaining 85 but not over 100%

negative, 125% positive) Frequency within tolerance) Satisfactory alternate means for defec-

tive monitors

AM FM

73.92(a) 73.264(a)

73.92(6) 73.264(6)

73.93 73.26573.92 73.26473.66 73.274

73.93 73.265

73.52(a) 73.267(6)73.58 73.25873.39(f) 73.320(d)73.39(i) 73.320(f)73.39 73.32073.39 73.32073.93(a) 73.265(a)73.40(6) 73.317(6)73.40(0)(8) 73.317(0)(8)73.40(0)(8)73.93 73.26573.93(a) 73.265(a)73.51 73.267(a)

73.322

17.47 to

17.23

73.40(b)(3)(iv)

73.40(b)(3)(iv)17.50

73.39(d)(2)73.189(6)(5)

73.40(b)(3)(v)73.189(6)(2)

73.69(a)

73.5673.5673.56

73.5573.59

17.49

17.23

17.50

73.25373.25373.253

73.26873.269

SEE MONITOR RULES

DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEMS

( ) F.I. measurements made if required. 73.93 and TERMS OF LICENSE

( ) F.l. meter available and working if re-

quired 73.93(e)(5)

( ) Phase angle agrees with license TERMS OF LICENSE

( ) Field at monitor points agree with license TERMS OF LICENSE

( ) Base current ratios within 5% of licensedvalves

( ) Loop meters have calibration chart orscales

( ) Monitor points satisfactorily located anddescribed

( ) Periodic transmitter inspection when re- 73.114

mote control( ) Antenna monitor installed 73.69(0)

73.52(6)

73.39(d)(I)(vi)

TERMS OF LICENSE

MISCELLANEOUS

( ) 1 day/week transmitter inspections 73.93

( ) Excessive spurious or harmonic radiations 73.40(a)

( ) TVI or other IX from FM harmonic/spur-ious

( ) Remote'operation discontinued when re-

quired( ) Standards of good engineering practice( ) Operation on reduced power

73.67(0)(3)73.46(a)73.52(a)

EMERGENCY BROADCASTING SYSTEM (EBS)

( ) Required receiver installed and work-ing

( ) Facilities to make alert transmission 73.933

( ) Appropriate EBS entries made in operat-ing lag.

73.26573.317(a)

OTHER OPERATING REQUIREMENTS AM

( ) SCA rules and logging requirements( ) Check if station is stereo programming( ) Check if station Is pre -sunrise transmit-

ting 73.99( ) Operator instructions 73.93(g)

NOTICES TO BE ON FILE WITH EIC

( ) Permanent discontinuance of operation 73.91( ) Equipment test notice 73.95(a)( ) Program test advance notice 73.96(a)( ) FM stereo schedule/changes( ) Chief operator designation where ap-

plicable 73.93

Field intensity measured at mile/sAntenna radiation taken from FCC charts or computed tower

height

Conductivity taken from M-3 map (or other sourceGround attention factor from section 1.

73.184; Graph NbFactor for power of station ( )

Expected field intensity computedVariation in percentage between measured value and com-

puted value

REMOTE CONTROL

FM

73.293-73.29573.297

73.265(f)

73.271

73.216(0)73.217(a)73.297

73.265

_mv/m

mv/m_rnmho/m

v / m

( ) Positive on -off and fail safe circuit 73.67(a)(2) 73.275(a)(2)( ) Transmitter securely housed 73.67(a)(1) 73.275(a)(1)

( ) Remote meters have true calibration orcharts 73.67(0)(4) 73.275(a)(4)

( ) Remote meters have correct scales andranges 73.39 73.320

( ) Provision for remote tower light check 73.67(0)(4) 73.275(0)(4)

( ) Weekly calibration of remote antennacurrent 73.39(d)(1)(vii)

( ) E.B.S. Alert 'can be made at remotelocation 73.67(6) 73.275(6)

( ) Modulation being monitored at remotelocation 73.67(0)(4) 73.275(0)(4)

( ) Power can be adjusted up and down 73.67(a)(4) 73.275(a)(4)

( ) Phase, base, common point and loopcurrent for each pattern 73.113

( ) Stereo can be turned off for Mono pro-grams 73.275(0)(4)

73.322

( ) Direct remote ant. meter dial or calibra-tion curve 73.39(d) (1)(vii)

( ) Remote Control operation terminated

when required 73.67(0)(3) 73.275(a)(3)

EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTSAND STATION RECORDS

( ) Measurements available for inspection 73.47(b) 73.254(c)

( ) Measurements records maintained for

two years 73.47(6) 73.254(c)

( ) Measurements made yearly and for 4months prior to renewal 73.47(a) 73.254(b)

( ) Description of equipment, methods dateand signature, of engineer making meas-urements 73.47(6) 73.254(c)

() Measurements made through studio

equipment 73.47(a) 73.254(0)(4)

( ) Partial skeleton annual proof of DA 73.93(e)(4)

( ) Measurements made for each pOwer 73.51(c)(2)(ii)

STATION EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE AM

( ) Data and curves of AF response 73.47(0)(1)

( ) Data and curves for harmonic distortion 73.47(0)(2)

( ) Data showing carrier shift for 25, 50,85 and 100% modulation using 400

CPS tone( ) Noise and hum level 73.47(0)(4)

( ) Check for harmonic and spurious emis-sions 73.47(0)(5)

( ) Equipment performance meets standards 73.40(0)+( ) AM noise in DB below 100% AM mod-

ulation

AVAILABILITY OF REQUIRED LOGS, REPORTSAND RECORDS

( ) Program, operating and maintenancelogs available

73.932 73.932 ( ) Equipment performance available -2years

( ) Most recent antenna/common point im-73.961 73.961 pendence data

73.317(f)(2)

73.275(0)(3)

73.267(c)

73.933

73.47(0)(3)

73.116(a)

72.116(6)

73.116(c)

FM

73.254(6)(1)73.254(6)(2)

73.254(6)(3)

73.317(a)(14)73.317

73.254(6)(4)

73.286(a)

73.286(6)

MAINTENANCE LOG( ) Weekly calibration of all indicating de-

vices including antenna monitor( ) Monthly external frequency checks in-

cluding method of measurement( ) Calibration of auto log equipment and

adjustments

( ) Entry for removal/defective meters ormonitors

( ) Quarterly tower lighting inspections(17.49(d))Transmitter inspections/results/signatureWeekly field monitor intensity measure-ment if required.

Expeiimental period operations de-

scribedDetails of repairsDaily base current reading for direc-tional

( ) Time devoted to daily inspection

( ) Auxiliary transmitter test on main an-tenna.

( ) Phase, -'common point, loop currents, re-mote antenna base currents readings

( ) Antenna base current ratios

( ) Remote antenna and loop current ratios

( ) All entries made by holder of 1st classlicense

Rules.

73.114(1)

73.114(0)(iii) 73.284(0)(2)

73.114(c)(iv) 73.284(0)(3)

73.114(0)(2) 73.284(0)(4)

73.114(0)(3) 73.284(0)(5)73.114(g)(i) 73.284(6)

73.114(0)(6)

73.114(0)(4) 73.284(0)(6)73.114(6) 73.284(6)

73.114(0)(5)73.114(6) 73.28400

73.63(d) 73.255(d)

73.114(8)73.114(8)73.114(8)

73.114(0) 73.284(a)

p.m im Re se. no ins mi INN MI INN NMI MI NS

ANYONE CAN

RUBYBEGONIAS

. . . D e ta ils Next Week!I. OM NM MI IIIN =MI NM MIN=

ICU LAID AT

( ) Most recent Fl measurements for DA AM FM

proof 73.116(d)( ) FM transmitter efficiency factor in man-

ual 73.267(0)(3)( ) Political file available with required data 73.120(d) 73.290(d)

( ) Logs and records maintained for twoyears 73.115 73.285

( ) Agreement for part time 1st class oper-ator 73.93(c) 73.265(c)

( ) Designation of chief operator 73.93 73.265

OPERATING LOGS (Manual)

( ) Operators signing logs at start and endof duty 73.111(a) 73.281(a)

( ) Logs legible and orderly with data avail-able 73.111(6) 73.281(6)

( ) Corrections made properly 73.111(c) 73.281(c)( ) RF to antenna start and end time 73.113(0)(1) 73.283(0)(1)

( ) 3 -hour transmitter meter and monitorreadings before adjustments 73.113 73.283(0)(3)+

( ) Notation of adjustments 73.113(a) 73.283(0)(3)( ) Daily base current meter reading if re-

quired 73.113(0)(4)( ) Antenna current and common point read

without modulation effects 73.113(a)(3)(ii)( ) 3 -hour phase, sample loop and base

current ratios 73.113(2)( ) Pages numbered and dated 73.111(b) 73.281(6)( ) Time (local) indicate advanced, nonad-

vanced, AM or PM 73.111(b) 73.281(6)( ) Daily tower light check and results 73.113(0)(1) 73.283( ) Doily review of operating logs by first

class license holder 73.93(h)(4)(iv) 73.265(d)(5)(iv)

OPERATING LOGS (Automatic) In addition to the items listedunder MANUAL

( ) Recorder must have 2% accuracy 73.113(6) 73.283(6)( ) Calibrate once weekly 73.113(6)(3) 73.283(6)(3)( ) Out -of -tolerance alarm near operator 73.113(6)(4) 73.283(6)(4)( ) Logger is at remote control point 73.113(6)(6)(7) 73.283(6)(6)(7)

near opr. on duty

PROGRAM LOGSDue to the complexity of this category -refer to Part 73 of the

)

( )

( )

( )

EARTH, WIND & FIRE'S NEW SINGLE, "SHINING STAR,"..

IS GOING TO BE THE BIGGEST IN A GARGANTUAN

CAREER. IT'S JUST SHIPPED, AND ALREADY MORE

THAN 80% OF THE NATION'S R&B STATIONS HAVE

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WTLC, WLOU, WAMO, KDAY, KJLH, KRE, KALO, WVON,

WAMM, KGFJ, WDAS, WDAS-FM, KOKA, WOKJ, WAWA,

WNOV, WIGO, WAOK, WOKS, WSOK, WVOL, WRBD, WGOK,

WPDQ, WOIL, WEAL, WVOL AND WMBM.THIS INCREDIBLE SINGLE IS FROM THEIR FORTH-

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ON COLUMBIA RECORDS

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PARALLEL 1

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BTOELOLabe0eHOTOhio PlayersDavid BowieDoobie Elms

WLS/CHICAGOJim Smith

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WRKOIBOSTONChristy Wright

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CILLW/DETROTTBill Hennes

Olivia Newton -JohnDead GatesHOTCarpenter* 1 L7Paula Webb 26-14

ILIAC/SAN FRANCISCODave Sheik

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nyrd Skynyrd 25-9John Denser 29-18

13Q/PITT$BURGHTerry Hazlett

hankie ValliOlivia Newton -JohnRingo Stan "No No -HOTOhio Players 13-7AWB 15-9

WGCL/CLEVELANDChris Balky

LabelleDisco TexHOT&Hy Prerion5-1Carol Douglas 13-4Gloria Gaynor 14-5Candi Stators 23-11Diamond Reo 2617Joe Cocker 24-18

WPEZ/PITTSBURGHCharley Lake -Ohio PlayersAWBAmericaPaula WebbHOTBad Co Ip cut

"Bad Co- 18-10Fanny 24-16Linda Round( 25-18

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EaglesAWBHOTLinda Ronstadt 17.3John Denver 13-5

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Al MartinoElvis PresleyBTOSammy JohnsJoe Cockerdame Riperion

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OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN

JOE COCKER

RINGO STARR (NO NO)

FRANKIE VALLI

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WRFC/ATHENSDan Conger

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WROV/ROANOKEChuck Holoway

Labe&Phoebe SnowStark & McBrienDiamond ReoHOTOhio Players 20-10Olivia Newton -John 22-11Eddie Valli 29-16Bad Co 24-19

10:X1/GRAND FORKSMark Renier

Deep PurpleJackson FiveLabelleRingo Stan "No No"HOTLinda Ronstadt 11-3Donny & Marie 14-7America 16-10Sugarloaf 18-11BTO 24-13

WMC FM/1lEkiPHISGres Hamilton

Labrlk

BTOBad Co

WNC1/COLUMBUSDamon Sheridan

Hues CorpElvis PresleyHelen Reddy

Ozark Mt. DaredevilsRingo Starr (both)MelanieElvin BishopHOTAWB 10-4Sugarloaf 21-12John Denver 2015Jackson Five 39-28

CHUM/TORONTONancy Want

Olivia Newton -JohnFrankie ValliJoni MitchellHOTCarol Douglas 10-4AWB 23-16Eagles 29-18

KICLS/RAP1D CITYJohn Derek

RingoPuTP1Staff 14n NoJackson FiveLabelleHOTLinda Roasts:It 11-6Bad Co 21-16Ozark Mt DArederds 30-22

WEEOVSAYNESBOROMike Raub

Diamond RdSweet SensationEhis PresleyPaula WebbHOTLinda Ronstadt 14-2Grand Funk 1341Ohio Players 23-15Disco Tex 24-17

KJOY/STOCKTONDavid Kraham

Joe CockerSammy Johns1 GeisENAFOdia CoatesHOTJohn Denver 12-6Phoebe Snow 14.8Olivia Newton -John 28-12

WRGN/BOWLING GREENDana Green

Banda Patterson&shalesOlivia Newton -JohnGloria ScottHello PeopleHOTMaria Midden, 15-12Gloria Gay -nor 2016Sam Neely 29-21

WRIE/ERIEJim King

Ned DiamondDavid GatesJoe CockerAl MartinoMichael Sandra(StylisticsFifth DimensionHOTDonny & Marie 10-5Eagles 18-14

WKLO/LOUISVILLEGary Majors

David GatesManhattansJacksin FiveHOTLove Jnitd 23-26Donny & Marie 15-9Freddy Fender 27-11Oliria Newton -John 24-14

WBB(L/AUGUSTAJohn JenkinsLabelsJoe CockerJim WeatherlySi ThomasSweet SensationARSStark & McBrienHOTGrand Funk 7-1Olathe Daniels 15-8Sugarloaf 21-12Freddie Valli 29-17Dan Fogelbert 27-18

KJRB/SPOKANEJohn Sherman

Joe CockerHelen ReddySammy JohnsDan FogelbergJimmy CastorHOTAWB 15-9Olivia Newton- John 21-12

WISM/MADISONDavid Ross

NoneHOTLinda Ronstadt 14-6America 2015Ohio Players 26-18Olivia Newton -John 30-21

WAKY/LOUISVILLEJohn Randolph

Shirley & CoOur& DanielsJackson FivePolly BrownStyxHOTFreddy Fender 10-6Lose UMW 20-10David Gates 28 -ISJoe Cocker 30-19

WSAR/FALL RIVERCurl Hansen

Dan FogelbergRingo Starr "Snookeroo-Olina Newton -Johnslichad hendroffHOTLabelle 12.5Frankit Valli 21-11Sugarloaf 22-12

KDZAIPUEBLOJack Caner

Stark & McBnenELIOJoni MitchellHOTLinda Ronstadt 15-6AWB 21-9Styx 30-19

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Joe CockerSimpensol fElvis BishopSammy Johns1 GeisHOTalso %nen 19-10Sty,. 21.12Hello People 22-16John Lennon 24-18

WGH/NPT NEWSGeorge Crawford

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EXPRESS/B.T. Express (Roadshow)AIRPLAY: on KEZYLADY MARMALADE/Labelle (Epic)AIRPLAY: already a hit, on KHJ, KKDJ, KFRC

GET DANCIN'/Disco Tex {Chelsea)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

GLORIA GAYNOR MEDLEY (MGM)AI RPLAY: off new Ip, first side.

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME/Shirley & Co. (Vibration)AIRPLAY: 24-22 KCBQ, 24-23 KFRC, 19-15 KJOY

SATIN SOUL/Love Unitd. Orch. (20th)AIRPLAY: Mostly Black

I'LL BE HOLDING ON/Al Downing (Chess)AIRPLAY: good.Southern play this week

DOCTOR'S ORDERS/Carol Douglas (Midland)AI RPLAY: Already a hit and corning down the charts

PICK UP THE PIECES/AWB (Atlantic)AI RPLAY: Already a hit

I JUST CAN'T SAY GOODBYE/Philly Devotions (Columbia)AI RPLAY: radio play is beinning, mostly Black

LOVE DON'T GO THROUGH CHANGES/Sister Sledge (Atco)AIRPLAY: Black only at this time

TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT/Jimmy Ruffin (Chess)AIRPLAY: Black

FIRST, LAST, EVERYTHING/Barry White (20th)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

HIJACK/Herbie Mann (Atlantic)AIRPLAY: Black

FIRE/Ohio Players (Mercury)AIRPLAY: Already a top 10 h -it, on most major stations.

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knoxville/memphis/atlanta

LADY MARMALADE/Labelle (Epic)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

DOCTOR'S ORDERS/Carol Douglas (Midland)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

GET DANCIN'/Disco Tex (Chelsea)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

GLORIA GAYNOR MEDLEY (MGM)AI RPLAY: from new Ip, the whole first side

EXPRESS/B.T. Express (Roadshow)AIRPLAY: on WQXI, WLEE, WAKY, WGH

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME/Shirley & Co. (Vibration)AI RPLAY: add WMAK, WAKY, WNOE, KEEL, had a super week

VOO-DOO MAGIC/Rhodes Kids (GRC)AIRPLAY: on WAKY

SATIN SOUL/Love Unitd. Orch. (20th)AIRPLAY: on WGH, and most black stations.

KIND OF LOVE I'VE GOT/Rita Jean Bodine (20th)AIRPLAY: play is beginning

FIRE/Ohio Players (Mercury)AI RPLAY: already a hit, on all majors

FIRST, LAST, EVERYTHING/Barry White (20th)AI RPLAY: Already a hit

IT'S A MIRACLE/Barry Manilow (Arista)

most addedGLORIA GAYNOR MEDLEY (MGM)

Records below are listed in order of theirpopularity in each region.

mildozadmilwaukee/cleveland/columbusminneapolis/st. paul/cincinnati

EXPRESS/B.T. Express (Roadshow)AIRPLAY: WIFE, WNCI, WGRQ, WI XY, KIOA, WSAI looks good

LADY MARMALADE/Labelle (Epic)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

GLORIA GAYNOR MEDLEY (MGM)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

DOCTOR'S ORDERS/Carol Douglas (Midland)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME/ Shirley & Co. (Vibration)AIRPLAY: not much in this region

SATIN SOUL/Love Unitd. Orch. (20th)AIRPLAY: on WSAI

FIRST, LAST, EVERYTHING/Barry White (20th)AI RPLAY: Already a hit

PICK UP THE PIECES/AWB (Atlantic)AI RPLAY: Already a strong hit

KIND OF LOVE I'VE GOT/Rita Jean Bodine (20th)AIRPLAY: 45-43 WNCI, on U100, 32-28 KFMG

FIRE/Ohio Players (Mercury)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

GET DANCIN'/Disco Tex (Chelsea)AIRPLAY: Already a hit

BLUE EYED SOUL/Carl Douglas (20th)AIRPLAY: none reported

AS LONG AS WE'RE TOGETHER/Gloria Scott (Casablanca)AIRPLAY: mostly Black at this time

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GLORIA GAYNOR MEDLEY (MGM)AIRPLAY: Already ahit

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME/Shirley & Co. (Vibration)AIRPLAY: add WFIL, WIBG, WRKO, 30-27 WIFI, on WLEE, add WAVZ

EXPRESS/B.T. Express (Roadshow)AIRPLAY: WABC, 99X, WPIX

LADY MARMALADE/Labelle (Epic)AIRPLAY: Already a hit, major top 40 station airplay, WABC, WFIL etc

I'LL BE HOLDING ON/AI Downing (Chess)AIRPLAY: debut 30 WSAR, on WBLS, sounds good on air

DOCTOR'S ORDERS/Carol Douglas (Midland)AIRPLAY: Already a hit and now coming down

E -MAN BOOGIE/Jimmy Castor (Atlantic -Not Available)AIRPLAY: not available for airplay

LOVE DON'T GO THROUGH CHANGES/Sister Sledge (Atco)AI RPLAY: none reported

UP IN A PUFF OF SMOKE/Polly Brown (GTO)AIRPLAY: 20-16 WZUU, 23-18 WLPL, on WISM, add WROK, 29-26 WSAR

BLUE EYED SOUL/Carl Douglas (20th)AI RPLAY: none reported

IT'S A MIRACLE/Barry Manilow (Arista)Al RPLAY: none yet, although this will probably be his follow up to Mandy

HIJACK/Herbie Mann (Atlantic)AIRPLAY: on WISM

GET DANCIN'/Disco Tex (Chelsea)AI RPLAY: Already a hit

HAPPY PEOPLE/Temptations (Gordy)AIRPLAY: on WPOP nites

THE BOTTLE/Joe Bataan (Salsoul)

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The thaw has begun on gooddisco records. Not since mid -November have we had asmany strong products.Springtime is approachingwith many new offerings.High oh the anticipation list isthe new Barry White album,which has been delayed untillate February. Similarlydelayed is the Disco -Tex andthe Sexolettes album. BobCrewe and Kenny Nolan'sbusy schedule has pushed upthat release date one month.

But the discos do have someincredible new items to workwith. New artist VernonBurch, who at 19, is anaspiring "sex symbol." Hisexciting album, "I'll Be YourSunshine" (United Artists),has an easy four good up -tempo cuts. Watch forVernon, easy cross -overmaterial .

The item for spring is theGloria Gaynor album. Her 18minute medley of Honeybee,Never Can Say Goodbye, andReach Out I'll Be There isabsolutely astounding. Thereaction is very high.

Tony Camello, obviouslysparked by the expression"Dy-no-mite," penned anelectric instrumental soon tobe released by ABM. It's goodto see this label venture into -new markets. I'm sure theywill bring all of theirexpertise to the front to makethis single reach its fullpotential.

It's nice to note that thediscos broke a record forthree of the most talented andlovely ladies in the business."Lady Marmalade" isexpected to go Gold by theend of winter. Not a greatsurprise to many is that theirlive performance on stageexceeds the energy that canbe felt from their album"Nightbirds" on Epic.

Something interesting tonote is that 8 or 9 of the top 20pop records in the countrythis week have receivedsubstantial play in the discos.

Listen for some newsounds, either in style orapproach by these artists:Taj Mahal in a new re -mix of"Why Did You Have ToDesert Me" (Columbia),Robert Parker's "Get TaSteppin' " (Island), and Isisversion of "Bobbi & Maria"

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Stark 8z McBrienaren't lonely anymore.

When you've got themakings of a hit, you're not alonefor very long.

And then when you win $30,500 inthe American Song Festival, people perkup and want to have a look at you.

We liked what we saw, loved what weheard and rush -released "Isn't It Lonely Together"within a week.

That's when program directors started hearingthe music. Before long, the following stationswere falling into step:

KHOW WGN WIP WFIRKMEN WMAL WASH KWAVKRNT KVI WWDC WEEI-FMKOMO KNBR KMBZ WCARKFI KMPC WSM WILMKITS WLW KAKE WNEWKULF WCCO WGST

WIOD WSB

During the holiday, even the best of them can gettrampled to death. But Stark 86 McBrien stayed right outthere, making more and more friends.

Top 40 time. The list gets bigger, a gathering grows.

WAEB KLSS WCRO WILK WRBCKTAC KISD M99 WLAN WBBM-FMKIMN WSPT WROC WUOK WJDXKJRB WQTC WCUE WKEN WZZM-FMKCPX WYNE WPRO WGLI KISNKDZA WIFC WGTR WFLB WTLBKKJO WKMI WORC WGNIKQWB KQV WSAR VVVVKEWLAV WKWK WEEX KIOI

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Now the pace is quickening, the crowdsare getting thicker. Come out and join us.

"Isn't It Lonely Together" is going rightto the top. And everybody knows it isn'tlonely there at all.

FICA Records

RADIO & RECORDS FRI DAY, JANUARY 31, 1975

RECORDSRECORDINDUSTRYNOTES

by Candy TuskenThe picture to the right is vintage April, 1952, and Al Martino,

like good wine, ages well. He is still the handsome, slim singer whohas the heartthrob of teenage girls back in the fifties. I had a chanceto talk with him last week in his Beverly Hills home about his newsingle "To The Door Of The Sun" and his future plans. The single isbreaking out nationally, radio -wise, and he and his publicity firmare planning a full scale 'come -back' club tour to commenceFebruary 18th at the Palmer House in Chicago. A "high visibility"TV exposure campaign is in the works, so you'll be seeing a lot of Alin the weeks to come. His new single broke out of Hartford due to thesingle handed efforts of Capitol promotion Manager, Mery Amols,who had heard the original version, all in Italian, and felt it was a

perfect vehicle for Al. "We couldn't get the foreign licensing rightsto record the song in English" said Al. "There were so manyproblems with the record, that the project was dropped all together.Then the original artist decided to record the song in English. Itdidn't do anything when it was released as they had shortened it andtaken the 'guts' out of it. But it then became public domain so I wasable to record it." Al, who is an old promotion man himself yearsago with 20th Century Fox Records, said "some people are sayingthis is a regional Italian hit. But, I don't believe in 'regional hits.' I

can understand a song in China not making it in Russia -- There's alanguage barrier! But if a song is a smash in Nashville, it will be ahit in New York or Seattle, everywhere." Looks like '01 SpanishEyes is back in good company with Paul Anka, Frankie Valli, BobbyVinton and Neil Sedaka all riding in on the 'come -back' trail...

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playing a cut from a three year old National Lampoon albumwhich was a parody of Bob Dylan. Steven did a little rap about thecut and a few hours later the station's General Manager, DavidMoorehead, received a 'cease and desist' order from Dylan'sattorneys to legally block the "commercial" from being re -aired.According to Moorehead Dylan was apparently listening to Stevenand thought the cut was an actual commercial by KMET parodyingthe singer. Moorehead immediately called Dylan's attorneys andexplained that what the famous singer had heard was a cut off anold album and was not a commercial conducted by the station. SaidMoorehead "I just find it hard to believe that Dylan wasn't aware ofthe album and hadn't heard the selection before. Everything wasstraightened out and at least Steven found out that he has a famousfan who listens to his show! Caribou Management will no longerrepresent Three Dog Night, but will continue their association withThe Beach Boys and Chicago ... Rumors are that the Caribou Ranchis up for sale with the price being in the millions...

ACTOR MAKES PROFITON OLDIE BUT GOODIERichard Harris was in town promoting his new album on Atlantic

Records, "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran. It took Atlantic eightyear to get rights to the. book for recording purposes and hadadvance sales of a quarter of a million prior to release. This isHarris' third narration album and he told me the cost of the albumwas around $300,000, making it the most expensive spoken wordalbum ever recorded. Harris is back in the States for a radiopromotion tour and will again appear on Syndicated TV talk showsnarrating some selections from the album. The single has beenshowing some radio play throughout the country and Harris is quitepleased with the reception. The actor -singer has enjoyed tennationally charted albums in the states in the past and at one timehad three of them all on the charts at once. He is an astutebusinessman and while we were at lunch, performed hilariousparodies of record company presidents that he has dealt with. He isas handsome and debonair in person as he is on screen and islooking forward to getting back into the recording business again...Bang's National Promotion Director, Wynn Jackson and his wife,Susan, have a new addition with a brand new baby girl being born onJanuary 21st weighing in at seven pounds, eight ounces. Wynn hasnamed her after the famous "Mandy," with her formal name beingthe musical Amanda Lynn (a mandolin, get it!?) Gregg Allmanjammed with Etta Jameson her opening night at The Troubadour inLos Angeles. He enjoyed himself so much, he decided to play theentire engagement with her...

PROMOTIONSTerry Powell has been selected as Columbia Record's new

Associate Director of Talent Acquisition. Terry had been thatlabel's Western Regional Manager in charge of Promotion. Epic'sMike Atkinson will now assume Terry's former job... Chuck


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Where were you in '52? Al Martino was in Cleveland surrounded by a host of adoringfans. (above). Candy Tusken spoke with Martino, currently hot in the charts, lastweek. See her report in Record Industry Notes.

The man on the left is Bobby Vinton - the ginger of America's first Polish Americantop 40 song, "My Melody of Love." The girl on the right is Wanda Zielinski, whomVinton crowned as Miss Polish New York. And the object in front of them is theworld's largest kielbasy -a 135 lb., 91/2 foot -long Polish sausage. The monster -sizedmeat roll was presented to Vinton at Lot Polish Airlines New York office to honor hisposition as unofficial spokesman for a new Polish Pride movement.

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INDUSTRY NOTESContinued from page /6

Dembrak has been named Manager, National Singles Promotion,RCA Records by Tony Montgomery, Director of Promotion... LocalMCA Promotion Manager, Jon Scott, has been upped to NationalAlbum Promotion Manager by VinceCosgrave, Vice President ofPromotion... Minneapolis has a new local Promotion Manager withthe appointment of Steve McDevitt to that position by BobJamieson, Branch Manager... Former CMA Vice -President,Norman Weiss, has been chosen as President of Jerry Weintraub'sManagement Ill firm as announced by Mr. Weintraub... With PaulLovelace assuming the management of 20th Century's new countrydivision, Ralph Tashjian has been named to fill Paul's vacancy asNational Promotion Director for 20th... John Brown is the new headof Regional Promotions,Northeast R&B Division for ABC Records...Former Billboard chart employee, Nicky Heber, has joinedAtlantic Records promotion department... With the announcementof Columbia Record's expansion of the West Coast A&R operation,the addition of Jack Gold and Joe Wissert, two of the most respectedproducers in the industry, was revealed last week by BruceLundvall and Don Ellis...

QUICK CUTSThe Ohio Player's album "Skin Tight" has gone platinum. The

group is embarking on a European tour slated for January 21st inLondon with the bulk of the tour comprised of Televisionappearances... Lori Lieberman just taped her own "concertspecial" for WNYC-TV in New York to be aired January 26th and30th to be seen in New York and parts of the East Coast. IslandRecords Founder, Chris Blackwell, and President Charley Nucciohave just purchased a Brownstone in Greenwich Village which isover a century and a half old to house the New York staff. Thestructure boasts marble work, -wrought iron and stained glass...Beverly Bremers of "Hair" and "Rocky Horror Show" fame has anew single out on Scepter titled "Get Up In The Morning" producedby Deke Richards and arranged by Gene Page. Beverly has justcompleted a NBC world premier movie, "Journey Darkness"and is in the process of completing a pilot for the same networktitled "Enter Horowitz" in which she plays the part of a witch. Theslight blonde with the big voice will also be seen this March 22nd and23rd with Peter Falk on the nationally syndicated Easter SealsTelethon... The rather racy cover of the Roxy Music album is to besubstituted for a less provacative cover sands the girls. Right nowthe rack jobbers have the original cover shrink wrapped in darkplastic to obscure the obvious.. Emerson, Lake and Palmer begin aworld wide tour in April to commence in South Africa with a U.S.engagement set for early Summer... After a seven year hiatus GaryLewis has a new single out on Epic titled "One Good Woman"penned by the hit songwriting team of Lambert & Potter... A majorNorth American concert tour for Johnny Winter is set extendingfrom January 24th to April 13th to include 40 cities in virtually everymajor market in the U.S. and Canada.

When ABC Records artists Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan, opened at LosAngeles' Total Experience Club recently, Jerold Rubinstein, thecompany's newly -appointed Chairman, was among those who droppedby to see the group. Pictured are (top row, from left) Bobby Watson andRufus' manager Bob Ellis; (middle row) Tony Maiden, Andre Fischerand Kevin Murphy, and (bottom row) Chaka Khan and Rubinstein.

RECORD INDUSTRY PROFILE:

Bob Sherwood -- ColumbiaBOB SHERWOOD, AssociateDirector of National Promotions,Singles, Columbia RecordsBORN: February 24thBIRTHPLACE: Pasadena,California (in the shadow of the RoseBowl)SIGN: Pisces

When Bob was in High School theonly two things he ever wanted to bewas the first baseman for theDodgers or a play by play sportsbroadcaster. "My whole life wasinvolved in Sports, but I was neverreally that great. I always got by ondetermination and stubbornness... I

was not a natural athlete. I havealways been one to admit that theDodgers suggested it was not a goodidea on my part to want to play fortheir team ... anything else, be it anuclear physicist, but not baseball. Icould have signed a contract, but I

would have been in Broken Dump,Iowa riding buses for ten years. Sothat left radio.

I had the absolute minimum ofradio training at USC, but JackCarney, one of the great jocks of alltime, was at KSFO in San Franciscoreally encouraged me. He's the onewho really pushed me into radio. I

had a friend, Stan Stathem, who wasdoing weekends at KMYC inMarysville who landed me a salesgig there. It allowed me to hangaround the station and be a go-fer forthe jocks. I used to practice at nightin the studio with Stan and finallymy first break came ... I did theShakey's Pizza Hour (they used tobuy a whole hour of Polka music!)Whenever I need humility, I listen tothat first tape of me on the air. Itwas, without doubt (and I'll put it upagainst anybody) the worst momentin broadcasting history. I wasabsolutely horrible. But it didn'tseem to hurt me because who listensto a Shakey's Pizza Hour? Not evenShakey does! But being a smallstation, they took anyone as long asit was a warm body, so I got theweekend gig. Within a month I

landed morning drive and havingthe gift of gab, I did well in theratings. But the stationdeveloped financial problems, so I

went over to KAOR-Oroville, did atalk show and became the musicdirector. Then I went to KPAY-Chicoand did seven to midnight. After acouple of years of this, I got my bigbreak in 1967 and went with a majormarket station, KROY inSacramento. It was the rocker thereand I ended up doing all the shifts atone time or another.

Rick Carroll was PD at KROYthen and when he left, I became theMD. I won the Gavin Award for BestSecondary Market MD of the year. I

was then made the PD and for thenext year and a half we enjoyed thegolden years of ratings in thetwenties and thirties plus achievingthe highest billing ever for thestation. We had a great station and Iworked for the best generalmanager in radio, Dwight Case whois now the killer Vice President atRKO. Robert W. Morgan used to bethere along with Bobby Mitchell,Emperor Hopkins, Jack Hammer.We even knocked out Drake's KF RCthat beamed very strongly intoSacramento. While I was there, wenever really had any superstars;they had all gone by then. But wehad station imagery and that madethe magic of KROY. We used to sitaround in jock meetings and thinkup unusual promotions to involve thetown itself in. One of our off the wall

ideas was to have a snowmanbuilding contest in the middle ofAugust. We hauled the snow in twodumptrucks down from themountains and it turned into thebiggest snow ball fight in history --

Sherwood with Candy Tusken.

5,000 people came. We started a drugcampaign by turning the music offfor two and a half hours with theusers and narcs all cloistered indifferent rooms talking live on thephone. It was a devastating special.You couldn't do anything inSacramento without KROY beingpart of it. We once ran LamontCranston (The Shadow) for Sheriffand almost pulled it off! It was themost community minded stationI've ever seen.

I often wonder why I left, but I

really had gone as far as I could withKROY and I needed a newchallenge. I had been there for fouryears. I got the opportunity to workwith Bob Collins at WRIT inMilwaukee and jumped at thechance to compete with GeorgeWilson at WOKY. He was tearing theplace apart. I went in as AssistantPD -Promotion Director and got themost serious licking of my life.Everything that worked inCalifornia did not work inMilwaukee. My jock stuff, whichwas probably great in Sacramento,just did not happen as well inMilwaukee. It was a good lesson tobe learned and I did have a greattime there. We had a lot of fun. Thenthe opportunity came in Cleveland(another high point in my life!) withGeneral Cinema Corp. They ownedWGCL in Cleveland which wasbasically an automated progressivestation and they decided to rock it.That very brilliant and delightfulJohn Rook was very kind about arecommendation and I became thePD. I did my number. I flew in like agood new PD and listened to WIXYin my motel room. I determined thatthere was a whole segment of thepopulation that wasn't being servedby what was going down musically. Ihad always wanted to try a hybrid ofthe KROY formula -- towninvolvement, but a more hip musicalplane. It was perfect because WIXYhas always been involved andWMMS was very hip. I decided touse the best of both.

WGCL was an FM and had thesecond highest FM penetration inthe country, so I thought If everthere is a time to move, it's now. So Iput a new format together. BasicallyI surrounded the newer material oralbum product with the familiar

stuff. Almost every sweep had goldcoming out of a commercial set intoa new album cut or a just developingsingle. Then I went into an A or Brotation, one of the hot singles. Thatway we never went for more than 3to 5 minutes without strongfamiliarity. We were giving morethan WIXY, but we were morefamiliar than WMMS. The guys atthe station worked their butts off forme. I always will be grateful tothem. We had a sharp increase inratings and billing and a sharpdifference of opinion betweennational management as to wherethe station was going and how to getthere. I felt I had to continue to dowhatl had said I was going to do. I

just couldn't go back to the jocks andtell them that I didn't believe in thatanymore. The management said"you will change" and I said "Iwon't" and they said"goodbye, wehave someone to take your job." It'salways been a majordisappointment to 'me because wereally were doing well. We weretaking on the legendary rocker anddoing a number.

It was at that time, the low point ofmy radio career, that Cal Rudmancalled me and suggested I call StevePopovich. Columbia's NationalSingles Manager, .George Brewer,had just passed away. He had beenbrought in from radio by Steve in thebeginning. I had always had greatrapport with the Columbia people nomatter where I was and I had a highregard for them.I decided if I wasgoing to get into records, I wanted togo with the Pros. Steve offered methe job and I "bit the bullet" for tendays. I really thought about it. I

decided I really wanted the job and Iwouldn't have left radio for anyoneexcept Steve. That was May of 1973.After a year, I was promoted toAssociate Director of NationalPromotions for singles. Working forSteve has been fantastic. He's amadman. He would call me up atthree o'clock in the morning allexcited about a new record. I didn'tmind as he was so genuine andhonest that I would get caught up inthe excitement. The bottom line isthat I don't miss radio as much as Ithought I would. I do miss thepersonal satisfaction of motivatingthousands of people to communityaction like we did at KROY -- it wasan upper. But I am actually closer toradio now as I travel to stations allover the country. I have rapportwith them and can understand theirproblems. I can relate to them andget my records played, which is myjob.

It's obvious the record businesshas changed over the years. Oldtime relationships don't seem towork. The playlists have shrunkbecause radio has become morescientific in its approach to find outwhat the hits are. The guys don'trely on their ears anymore eventhough they may be musical. Theyhave to approach their jobs on amore scientific level. They're intotheir research and their systems. I

don't like to see this as I want to getmy records played. It's veryfrustrating to have a record you feelin your guts is a hit and it's breakingout where played and you still can'tget the damn thing played in anothermarket. You can go into ToddWallace, bite the building, tear uphis furniture, but if he doesn't thinkit's a hit, friend or no friend, he



RECORDSR&R's Candy Tusken spoke with

the staff at Chrysalis Recordsregarding their views on FM versusAM radio & reviewers. Inattendance_ was Mike Papa le, FredMancuso, Derek Sutton, Donna Sianiand Jim Galbo...

R&R: Are you happy with WarnerBrother Records --is the distributionand service good with them?

MANCUSO: We're happy now.Let's put it this way -- we're happiernow than we've ever been before.

R&R: What were the problemsbefore and why are you happiernow?

MANCUSO: We're happy with thechanges that have been instituted inthe past few months, promotionalchanges specificially, through GaryDavis who heads the PromotionDepartment. We're very happy withGary. It's a business now ratherthan a boogie. We used to getboogied, but he's got the people inthe field becoming business peoplemore so than that "star" attitudethat a lot of them had before.

R&R: What do you- mean by"star" attitude?

MANCUSO: They had the attitudethat they were the stars instead ofthe people they were promoting.After all, a promotion person, whenhe accepts the responsibility toserve an area geographically orwhat have you, they owe the artist,the writers, the publishers and awhole lot of other people who dependupon them. They are it. If a

promotion man who has been in thearea and has only got the jobbecause he can get the nationalpromotion director laid; if that'swhat he considers to be a goodpromotion man, forget it. That's allwater over the falls. It's no longerlike that.

PAPALE: It feels good from allaround because they are moreconscientious. Like any staff, thereare some holes, but that'sunderstandable.

R&R: Right now promotion has tobe important to you with Tull'ssingle. He obviously has to beexcited to have a hit after the whole"Passion Play" episode. Did he feelfrustration or anger over thetreatment of the press to "PassionPlay?"

MANCUSO: I think he was veryupset that people didn't accept"Passion Play" for what it was. Itjust went over a lot of people'sheads.

R&R: I remember thediscrepency between the audiencereaction and the critic's review of"Passion Play." The audience I sawin L.A. loved it, but Hilburn(L.A.Times) tore it apart.

PAPALE: Are you familiar withElliot Murphy? He's an incrediblelyricist from New York, young cat,and he wrote a song quite similar toBilly Joel's "The Entertainer," notas punchy. But, it's basically a songabout how the Rock 'n Rollers are atthe mercy of people who are not intomusic. Like the Robert Hilburns. I

admire him as a journalist as hewrites quite well. He writes betterprobably than anyone of us herecould, but he Is not an open mindedindividual. If it's not hard heavy"cock rock," then forget it.

MANCUSO: He's a faggotworshipper. David Bowie, Lou Reedand The New York Dolls are hisfavorites.

PAPALE: Which is fine. It'sexcellent music, but If you're goingto be a contemporary music criticfrom Hilburn to Al Rudis in Chicago,whoever it may be, to the personthat Ian sings about In "OnlySolitaire" to Steve of Musical World

A ConversationWith Chrysalis

By Candy Tusken

From left, Chrysalis staff members: Mike Papale, Fred Mancuso, Donna Siani, Derek Sutton.

Express... if you're going to be thatkind of music critic, you've got to goto a concert completely blank ofprevious conditions and just sit thereand absorb it. But if you are there tointellectualize, you have toremember that first of all eightypercent of those people that arethere are groovin' and half of thoseeighty percent are so stoned outanyway, that they just go byemotion.

R&R: How much does a reviewaffect you either positively ornegatively? Does a review affectyour sales that much? Can youmeasure it?

MANCUSO: Definitely. Positivereviews you feel less of a reactionthan a negative one. A negativereview will cause a set 'ofcircumstances. If a buyer walks intoa Tower Record Store and he's justread a negative review and sees thealbum in question surrounded byfour or five others, like the Stones,Lennon and several other veryheavy albums, then he is not liable topick up the Jethro Tull, unheard,and purchase it whereas if there wasnothing written about it, then hewould be more liable to pick it upand listen to it.

R&R: Are you as a companygoing to try to get more into singles?

MANCUSO-PAPALE: No. We'lltry to get more away from it!

PAPALE: We've found that withalbum product, it's not only moreprofitable, but people are moresensitive to music when you'redealing with albums as they are.

R&R: You have been breakingyour records mainly on the WestCoast; why is that?

MANCUSO: I think it's a matter ofmental awareness and the level ofconsciousness. Once you leave theocean and the mountains and you getinto the industrial segments, youfind things just happen differently.The environment here is just moreconducive to our type of music ... It'smentally stimulating.

PAPALE: We also have a morelimited access to promotion In theMid -west and South. In the Mid -westthere are very few cities. Forexample, in Minneapolis, you onlyhave one outlet for album exposure

which is KQRS (which is the onlyprogressive station.) We can break alot of our product out of Detroit andChicago, but in the South you reallyonly have two cities ... Miami andNew Orleans as far as album outlets.I think the ideal example of a

progressive radio station is WSHEwhereas they are still progressive inthe sense of the word, they're popprogressive. They're not KLOS, butthere is nothing wrong with that.

PA PALE: You get a lot ofsituation like a KSAN in SanFrancisco who play what they likethemselves.The jocks play what theywant. They don't care aboutanything else. They have nocompetition. If they want to get intoa Jazz kick or play Soul music, theyplay it because they are really notcompeting with anyone else.Whereas in a lot of other marketswhere you have two or three stationsthat are competing very heavily forthat 18 to 34 year old target, you finda lot of differences. I'm reallygrateful that KMET and KLOS inLos Angeles are competitors andentirely different radio stations. Itreally helps us a lot. They both dovery, very well. KMET wasinstrumental in breaking RobinTrower as was KSAN. If KSAN getsbehind an artist, they'll explode it.

MANCUSO: And if they don't getbehind it, they don't care if It's thenumber one selling album in thecountry. If they don't feel likeplaying it, they won't.

R&R: Somewhat like a KKDJsituation. They'll play it if it fits intotheir format and fits their sound.

MANCUSO: That's a perfectexample. We had five weeks ofairplay on Tull at KHJ, and wedidn't have KKDJ or KEZY on therecord.

R&R: What do you think about theidea of playing records strictly byrequest action?

MANCUSO: Well, we could sithere with a host of ten people andmake ten phone calls apiece andcould garner a hundred requests. So Itdefeats their exact purpose becausethere is a way of doing everything.We could hype store reports, wecould hype phone requests. We coulddo everything if we wanted to. It's

simply ridiculous. I think theresearchers have outresearchedthemselves. They don't haveanything to go on except what ishappening in the market place. Sothey wait for everyone else to sell arecord for them. In fact, I don't seeany R&B stations playing any whiterecords, yet you see all theTop 40stations playing off of what is sellingin the market place directlyattributed to an R&B situation or acountry situation.

R&R: KGFJ has been playingwhite records lately.

MANCUSO: They're going tochange.

PAPALE: They're out of _thepicture as far as R&B goes.

MANCUSO: They got whipped sobadly by KDAY that they are goingto have to change. They should dosomething else with that stationbecause they've been so out of tunefor the last two years.

PAPALE: They needed to getbeaten badly to straighten up. KKDJis a good radio station -- a good teenstation. They really are, but I havecompassion for those Top 40 catsbecause they have a very hard job.They have outresearchedthemselves because they haveremoved all the sensitivity fromradio, from communications, frommusic. They seem to forget that thepeople listening have no idea whatthey are talking about when theytalk to their peers about research,requests, etc. We have found now inworking with "Bungle In TheJungle" that there Is a handful ofpeople who will not add a recorduntil it's like top 20 in the country.The WLS's and in some odd caseslike WHB in Kansas City, KXOK inSt. Louis. That's where they're at.That's how they want to programtheir stations and that's fine. But,the people that do add records, notthat they're any betterprogrammers, but they seem to be,in fact, more successful. WLS issuccessful, but that's just theirpolicy too. But like Jay Cook. I thinkhe's a fine example of being a streetradio programmer. He Is a

statistician, but he programs for thestreets. And that Is just somethingyou can never get as a statistician.

It's like a talent that you have tohave as a radio professional. That'swhat I think we're involved in. Notonly does the record business haveto change its policy of promotion andmarketing, but some of the radiopeople have to swallow their prideand realize that they're incompetent.People like Jay Cook, GerryPeterson, Brian McIntyre that aregood street programmers that winand are seldom wrong with music.Those are the people that all thesestatisticians, that are freaking out,should call and find out what theydo. But what they do is no differentthan the statistican does, it's just atalent that they have.

R&R: In other words thestatistician really couldn't learnbecause programming is a talent?

PAPALE: It is a talent. It's beinga radio professional and they aresensitive to music. You have to bemusically sensitive to pick a hit inthe first place and I would say that alot of PD's at Top 40 radio don'tlisten to music when they go home.They drink beer and watchtelevision.

MANCUSO: We find that to be afact. Many are so un-musical. Theygo home and read "How To BecomeA Millionaire." That's the truth.That's exactly what we're trying tofight. We're in a businesS wherewe're dealing with sensitivity andpeople and they are not tuned intothat factor at all. They are totallyscientific and totally mathematical.That's why we're basically an albumcompany. We deal with people whoare more sensitive to music, as mostof the FM people are, and I'm nottalking FM Top 40 ... I'm talkingabout Pop Progressive orProgressive music at the collegelevel. Those people are verysensitive to the artistic side of it too.The relevancy of what they'retalking about or what's happeningmusically is very real.

PAPALE: They are involved inwhat's happening now. They go toconcerts. They go to record stores.They like the music, and are totallyinto what they are doing.Unfortunately, a lot of it boils downto ownership of the radio station andthe pressures from management. I

think what has really created thestatistician basically and theseriousness of Top 20 radio ... I meanwe do take ourselves very seriouslyin this business... I don't mean thatwe (Chrysalis) take ourselvesseriously...

R&R: But you obviously takeyourself seriously business -wise.You've got Jethro TuII hiting Top 40in a big way.

MANCUSO: We do in a businessaspect, yes.

PA PALE: But the large owners ofthe radio stations -- The Bartells,Metromedia, RKO, TaftBroadcasting. They're corporationsand corporate policy is always tomake more money next year. That'sjust where it's at from Procter andGamble to RKO. And the ratings,which everyone lives and dies by,the AR B especially because that'sthe agency buying, everyone's veryworried about that rating so theyassume to get better ratings, youplay the familiar music and it's awhole round robin thing. We like FMradio a lot.

R&R: How have you brokenrecords AM -wise?

MANCUSO: Well, we have twothings going for us. Number one wehave very good product and numbertwo we have credibilitity at the radiostation level. Now we're not callingthem up and hyping them on a dozendifferent records a week. We've onlyworked three singles the entire year.

R&R: Do you really want to get



RADIOBy BOB WILSON

R&R: You are now NationalDirector of Shelter?

LA: RIGHT.R&R: And before that you worked

as a buyer for Poplar Tunes?LA: In Memphis, right.R&R: I basically wanted to talk to

you about juke box operations andhow it applies to radio airplay andresearch.

LA: Ok.R&R: The main thing is that

initial single sales are mostly to jukeboxes. This somewhat distortsnational trade numbers because itdoes not reflect audience sales oreven box play. Record companiesreport sales and national trademagazines reflect sales. Now, itprobably is very easy for a NeilDiamond or a Doobie Brothers orwhatever to get stock out there.What would you say the initialshipment of a good strong act is tojuke boxes?

LA: Well that's the key - the trackrecord. Usually with your juke boxoperators they want the trackrecords. Creedence Clearwater wasa beautiful example. After the pointthat Creedence ceased having big hitrecords, it took them two and a halfyears to burn out.

A juke box operator wouldbuy a Creedence record with just thename on it. Doesn't even have tohave grooves in it. You know what Imean? The name is there and that iswhat is going to make the buttonspunch.

R&R: Ok, how many could a

record company count on for initialsales?

LA: I would say200,000 ... somewhere between150,000 and 200,000.

R&R: So when you initially sell,and you're actually selling to jukebox operators, correct?

LA: Right.R&R: You're actually selling

those off; so let's say on a

Creedence, for example, on an oldCreedence you could unload 200,000the first week out.

LA: Right.R&R: But that has no bearing

whatsoever on`what the juke boxesactually are getting effective playon. That is, the man, the racks or theops brought it and put it in the boxes.But there is no one truly surveying tosee what's being played.

LA: Exactly. Which is the follow-through.

R&R: So, can you explain, as aformer buyer, the system. How youwould know what to do, or how theindustry, how radio could find out.There is a problem there. You've got200,000 singles out there that couldbe stiffing.

LA: And that's always a

possibility that you'd have to dealwith. Because that can happen, andit does happen, because they do putthem out and they do have to takethem back. But with a juke box, theone exception which of course veryfew juke box operators, except foryour powerhouses, buy direct. Aman that has 100 juke boxes, wouldneedless to say, be more likely to bebuying direct from Columbia ratherthan dealing through one -stops,which is the way that most all youroperators do. Now, when you sell arecord to a juke box operator, it'sgone. They don't return records.They have 50 black juke boxes, theyhave 50 country, they have 50 white,they buy them, they put them on,they're sold. You're not eating athing. But that's if you get it to thejuke box operator. In other words, ifyou've just got it sitting on yourfloor, naturally if they don't bite,they're going back to themanufacturer.

R&R: Ok, but to radio stations

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The Role Of Juke BoxOperations In Radio Research

who react to or even listen to initialsales figures, it doesn't meananything. Let's take the charts forexample. If they predicate the factthat "X" record, sold initially250,000, 200,000 of that could go tojuke boxes.

LA: Exactly.R&R: But that doesn't mean

anything.LA: Which is why you've got to

take it another step beyond. Youcan't just go on sales. In otherwords, if you say that you've got75,000 out on a single first week, thefact that it's out there is not thepoint. Which is why you have to go astep further and check your outletsto see is it in there. For one thing,they have a real bad habit ofdumping them all in one location.Say you have 30 retail outlets.

R&R: When you say retail outlets,you're talking about juke box placesor stores?

LA: I'm talking about a retailoutlet, a store. If you have 30 retailoutlets and then a one -stop andmaybe three racks. If you put out 600singles, and you can say I've got 600in Memphis, if you've got them all inthe one -stop and you've got 30 otherlocations out there with no records,then there's no way to get a readingon it. And that's what mostcompanies will do. And you'll findthem being guilty of it. Because theone -stop will take it, but they won'tcover the rest of the bases. So if thatone -stop sells all 600 to juke boxes,you still have no turn. You knowwhat I mean, it's all gone to jukeboxes, you still have no retailreading on it at all. Which is thescratching point with knowingwhere they are and what kind offeedback you're getting.

R&R: Is there a way for radiopeople to get into juke box research,by talking to box operators in theircity?

LA: Sure. I would think it would bethe most advisable thing they coulddo because they do their meterreadings, they can tell you on a newCarpenters records -- if they'regetting 75-80 plays a week on it thenthat might be excellent. And theycan tell you, per location, if you saywell did you put the such and suchrecord -- if you bought it and you putit out, then they're going to know, ajuke box operator will know, insideof a three week period of time,whether he's got a hit or not. And ifthat meter isn't -tripping, then hemight leave it say for a total of sixweeks, it will come off. Juke boxoperators will, as a rule, what wouldit be 80 singles to a normal juke box,your regulation standard, every oneof them has got to be a moneymaker.It's wasted space if it's not.

R&R: What about free plays?What about bars or whatever thatencourage a waitress to keep themusic running? And she plays herfavorite record night after night.How do you alleviate that? And howdoes he alleviate that?

LA: Well, that's a hard one to getaround, but there are very few ofthem that are going to have freeplays. The waitresses in most ofyour places, you're going to findthem dropping quarters in just likeeverybody else.

R&R: But it comes off the bossestake, right?

LA: No doubt.

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R&R: But he gives the girls "X"amount of quarters to drop in, keepthe music going during a dead time.

LA: Right. But I don't think,particularly in beer joints which isone of the places where your heavymeter readings are going to comefrom, you're only going to find thatsay in afternoons when it wouldn'tbe high traffic. But I honestlybelieve that you'd still be able toread the difference. Because whenyou're open until 2 or 3 in themorning, you've got people sitting inthere drinking, they're going to bepunching up the entire time. That'sprobably one of the hottest areas forjuke boxes,. far away over a

restaurant or whatever, becauseyou've got them in a psychologicalthing where they're drinking andtherefore that's when they startreally getting down to basics.

R&R: Are there basic kinds oflocations, like where say countrylisteners go where ... we'rebreaking it down, but I mean shoulda person break it down for likecountry, for rock, for black, forprogressive. How do the boxoperators program?

LA: They go very heavily initiallyby requests.

R&R: From who?LA: From say a customer who

comes in continually and they keepsaying why isn't such and such onthe juke box? Well, after awhile theowner will hear it enough times thatthey'll write it down on a sheet ofpaper and give it to the juke box guywhen he comes by to check records.And he'll say, is there any way I canget this? Well, that's one way that aone -stop has got a real good idea ofwhen something is going to break.Because these guys have got it downto an art. They're checking a

location at least once a week. Goingin and taking the money out,checking the machine, making surethat everything is functioningcorrectly. Then they'll come in, saythey do that on a Tuesday, wellWednesday morning, they'll be inthere and they'll have a stack oflittle slips of paper, maybe a ticketfrom a restaurant or whatever, nowwhen you start seeing every one ofthose sheets of paper with all at oncea run on a certain record, then all atonce you know you've got you one.And that happens real fast.

R&R: Like say a George McCraerecord.

LA: Right. It's all over with! Now

that is a real good example becauseit was a black thing for two weeks,and then all at once it was a coverevery single location they've gotwith it.

R&R: Where do the requests comefrom? From hearing it on a radiostation?

LA: Sometimes. A lot of timesyou'll find that people are avid jukebox readers. They'll go in and checkout a juke box first thing and they'llnotice when something is on thereand when it's not. And there arerecords that have never receivedairplay that were very vig juke boxrecords. Possibly for lyrical content.

R&R: I don't go hanging aroundbars and I don't go in and play jukeboxes obviously. So let's talk aboutthe average person who does, andthere are a lot of them because jukeboxes represent a lot of money. Aperson will go in and look at a jukebox and maybe notice a new song bya favorite artist, is what you'resaying?

LA: Well, Ace Cannon is a

beautiful example. How long has itbeen since Ace Cannon has had a hitsingle? "Tough." Years ago, and yetjuke box operators will put an AceCannon record on a jOke boximmediately. Now you have toreally experience going and sittingin one of these places and listening towhat comes through. And that was areal important thing to me when I

was back there. Because I wanted toassociate and gear my buying towhat they were going to want outfront. It was very necessary for meto anticipate.

R&R: Could that be carrier'through to say maybe a radio stationpicking up on a trend like an AceCannon, in the markets he's sellingin or being played in rather. Thenpossibly if they started playing AceCannon they could be enlarging theiraudience.

LA: Exactly. Because it'ssomething that listeners do want tohear. And it's a very wierd thingbecause Brenda Lee, when BrendaLee was cold, before Brenda Leeever came back strong, they loveBrenda Lee. Brenda Lee will playfrom to doomsday on juke boxes. It'ssomething that nobody's everyreally been that aware of to follow,to find out the methods that are usedin programming. Because it is a

huge amount of the single business.

R&R: What about oldies?LA: Enormous. Absolutely

enormous. Very few would you findprogrammed maybe over 50 percentoldies because they can't afford tolose that current momentum. Butthere are oldies that would trip thestronger, maybe even more so thanthe current things, because thecurrent things they'll hear all daylong.

R&R: In a good location, howmany different plays, total, a weekdoes a juke box run through?

LA: It would depend on thelocation. That's a real tricky thingbecause there are locations that athousand would be a good week.Particularly in your bars.

R&R: Now, they're running twoplays for a quarter. So you're talkingabout a thousand quarters, or areyou talking about a thousand actualrecords chosen? Because 500 times25 cents isn't very much money.

LA: In some regards, possibly it

wouldn't look like a lot of money, butif you take a singles bar, a really fineprogrammed singles bar, athousand would be light.

R&R: So some locations do maybe4000-5000 plays a week or more?

LA: Easy. When you've got a lot oftraffic and singles bars are a realgood indicator because that's a lot ofyouth in there. And that's somethingthat they don't care about actuallybeing able to talk, just being able tosit there and drink and hearwhatever it is that's currently beingpunched up. It's a catching thing. Ifit's on when they get in there, ifthere's a juke box there, it's justnatural habit to dig for change.

R&R: Now we have discothequeson one end, that are sometimes jukebox discotheques; or taped, or live.But they play new product. Brandnew out of the box. Then you havejuke box locations that in essenceare playing hit product. Sometimesmaybe slightly early. But in general,hand in hand with the local radiostation. So therefore, all that radiocould use it for is verifying facts,that maybe they're not gettingenough single sales on a record but itis getting juke box play. Or maybeit's not dead yet even though itstopped selling. In other words,boxes don't play new records earlydo they?

LA: Actually, I don't think theywait that long. Most of these peoplehave been out there, they're not newat it. Most of these people have beenin the juke box business for years.Some of them can tell you somereally fascinating Depressionstories because that was when the

them. -

R&R:

That was a great time for

R&R: Is it happening all overagain?

LA: I'm real anxious to find outhow much of it, but I'm afraidthere's more to be dealt with at thispoint; the movies, television wasn'there the first round. So probably itwon't have the impact that it had thefirst round.

R&R: Eating out is doing verywell. It's up over what it has been.

LA: Therefore, I expect this to betrue up, not necessarily gangbusterslike before. But these guys havebeen doing it for so long that theyhave developed an ear.They'll missthem, they'll miss them in a minute.But they also have developed an earand they'll catch them nine timesout of ten more than they'll missthem. If they put it on in their officeand they like it, they're going to buyit and they're going to try it in theirboxes. They have to be explorersinto that because how many weekscan go by without that name artistscoming out with a new record.You're always going to have to havethat same amount of records to puton your locations.

R&R: How do record companiespromote juke boxes, or do they getinvolved with promoting them?

LA: I don't think that they've everreally gotten into it in depth as theyshould have, because you wouldhave to do a mailing on a nationalscale, make sure that they're at-least aware your product is outthere. That's a really importantthing, to make them aware early,Because they do put the records on,they do listen, and there areoperators out there that if you sentthem five records, they put them outon five locations, and if they get areading, they're going to zap itimmediately. Which gives you aquick in to single sales. No doubtabout it. And it's something that'they never capitalized on. Possiblybecause they just aren't aware thatit's out there. Everybody knows thatthere's juke boxes, and everybody


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BOB DYLAN Blood On The Tracks (Columbia)2 3 YES Relayer (Atlantic)3 4 AVERAGE WHITE BAND AWB (Atlantic)5 51 66 77 8 ELTON JOHN Greatest Hits (MCA)8 9 JETHRO TULL Warchild (Chrysalis)9 10 JOHN DENVER Back Home Again (RCA)12 11 THE SPINNERS New & Improved (Atlantic)15 GRAND FUNK.14 op BACHMAN-TURNER25 d.) THREE DOG NIGHT13 15 HARRY CHAPIN11 16 NEIL DIAMOND10 17 RINGO STARR28 4 DAN FOGELBERG17 19 LOGGI NS & MESSINA.16 20 THE SPINNERS18 21 MOTT THE HOOPLE

OZARK MOUNTAIN27 23 BARRY MANI LOW29 24 RUFUS24 25 BILLY SWAN22 26 GEORGE CARLIN19 27 BARBRA STREISAND20 28 HELEN REDDY- 29 PHOEBE SNOW- 30 JOE WALSH

"Y6u're No Good" and "When Will I Be Loved""Lonesome" "Jack of Hearts" Big Album! ig

"Soon"=.

"Pieces and "Nothing You Can Do." 2?

"Taxi" and everything. ,,;

"Dong".

All The Girls In The World Beware (Capitol) "Run" "Responsibility", & "Wonderful"

Not Fragile (Mercury) "Roll On Down The Highway"Joy To The World (ABC/Dunhill) Their greatests hits.Verities & Balderdash (Elektra) Awaiting new single.

Serenade (Columbia) Waiting for a new single.

Goodnight Vienna (Apple) "No No. gets tremendous requests.Souvenirs (Epic) "Part Of The Plan" leads the pack.Motherlode (Columbia) "Changes" "Growin'"l*w & Improved (Atlantic) MOR playLive (Columbia) "Dudes" and "Memphis"It'll Shine (A&M) "Jackie Blue" leads the way; "Look Away"Barry Manilow H (Arista) Getting play on all formats.Rufus-ized (ABC) Strong progressive and R&B.I Can Help (Monument) Tapering offToledo Window Bos (Little David) Little airplay, lots of salesButterfly (Columbia) Joins the ranks of her classicsFree & Easy (Capitol) "Emotion"Phoebe Snow (Shelter) "Poetry Man" turning even more people on.So What (ABC/Dunhill) "Welcome to the Club" and rest.

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JONI MITCHELL Miles of Aisles (Asylum)GEORGE HARRISON Dark Horse (Apple)OHIO PLAYERS Fire (Mercury) "Fire"

He's hot.Still big, "Skating" and "Hurrah"This album just doesn't stop.Strong R&B' 0

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ELTON 1014NEMPTY SKY

EMPTY SKY (MCA)Re-release of early English LP.You know it'll be big.

BAKER-GURVITZ ARMY (a CM)PI NBALL (CHRYSALIS)Tremendous album. Strong FM

play in almost every market. - Lots of interest in this new artist."Help Me" leads. Try title track.

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IT'S TIME (CAPRICORN)"Kindness" and "Higher

and Higher"

COMING THROUGH:BOB DYLAN

BLOOD ON TRACKS (COL.)

"Lonesome," "Jack Of Hearts."and everything else getting topplay this week.

T of PTOWER OF POWER

URBAN RENEWALImlucit.,, Corm-13,1cl.! RtlYw Willing to

B.V1107" 0' Mv,t-lt It'n No! tip, CTI01,'

URBAN RENEWAL (WB)

"Oil..." getting heavy play, goodsales & requests.

ROXY MUSIC

ROXY MUSICCOUNTRY LIFE

COUNTRY LIFE (ATCO)Strong progressive action. "ThrillOf It All" leads.

STYX

StIxSTYX 2 (RCA)

"Lady" is bringing this group re-cognition.

FM ROCKRADIOBY MIKE HARRISON

The hot line for thissection is now in operation,(714) 223-6797 and we are onthe verge of the expandedAlbum -FM Rock section.

As of now, the number isavailable for any album -oriented radiostation peopleto report or receive info.

In addition to other things,the section will feature a listof regular contributors androtating contributors. Forthe most part, the list ofregulars is set -- however, ifwe haven't gotten to you yetfor one reason or anotherand you would like to haveyour station participate inthis section in one of theaforementioned categories,please do not hesitate to geton the horn and tell us aboutyourselves.

Also for you publicityhounds, get together biosand photos of your personneland promotions so that wemay share the beauty withour readers. Sendmaterials to Mike Harrison

P.O. Box 82522, SanDiego, Ca. 92110.

Remember, the hot line is(714) 223-6797.

H 1--iContinued from page 12

(Buddha). All different; allinteresting.

Arista has made a wisepurchase of distributionrights to a strong cut, "BumpMe Baby" by DooleySilverspoon on CottonRecords. This soon to be re-released cut has good salespotential.

"I Just Can't Say Goodbye"by the Philly Devotions(Columbia) is a disco natural.

The third time around maybe the most successful for"The Bottle." Gil -Scott Heron(who does a most astutesocial commentary on hisnew album) and Brother ToBrother did very goodversions of this song. Nowwatch for Joe Bataan'srendition on his new album"Afro-Philipino" (also asingle). The added Salsarhythm brings new life andvitality to this record which isbreaking out of the east on thenew Salsoul label. This. Is anInstant crowd pleaser, fillingdance floors on its first play.

A special thanks to thosecompanies that have addedus to their mailing lists.


THE PARALLELSPARALLELS are simply designations to make station

comparisons easier.121: Top 15 markets with playlist size of 30. Power record rotation

of 7-10 records.P2: All other markets outside of top 15 with 30 record playlist size,

7-10 power record rotationP3: All markets with excess of 35 records being played. Power

record rotation varies.4_

AMERICA -2: 27Lonely People (WB)

LP: Holiday

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PAUL ANKA -2:58One Man Woman/One Woman Man (UA)LP: Anka

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AVERAGE WHITE BAND -3:00Pick Up The Pieces (Atlan tic)

LP: Average White Band

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BACHMAN-TURNER -3:56Roll On Down The Highway(Mercury)LP: Not Fragile

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BAD COMPANY-3:21Movin' On (Swan Song)

LP: Bad Company

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POLLY BROWN -3:20Up In A Puff Of Smoke(GTO)

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DAVID BOWIE -2:32Changes (RCA)

LP: Hunky Dory

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CCARPENTERS -2:48Please Mr. Postman (A&M)

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HARRY CHAPIN-3:44Cat's In The Cradle (Elektra)

LP: Verities & Balderdash

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DJOHN DENVER -2:50Sweet Surrender (RCA)

LP: Back Home Again

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MAC DAVIS-3:19Rock 'N Roll (Columbia)

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DISCO TEX & THESEX-O-LETTES-3: 56Get Dancin' (Chelsea)LP: Get Dancin'

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DOOBIE BROTHERS -4:17Black Water (WB)

LP: The Captain & Me

P1

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26-162-8

4-51-1

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16-1611-6

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CAROL DOUGLAS -2:47Doctor's Orders (Midland)

P1

KFRC 12-1-4WABC 6-499X 2-1WFIL 7-7WIBG 7-14CKLW 25-23WRKO 1-1WIFI 4-4WQXI 18-17Z93 8-7WLS 11-10WEAM 15-16KSLQ 7-7WGCL 13-4

P2

WAVZ 4-3WGNG 9-5WOAI 6-4KBEQ 16-16KAFY 17-16KAKC 2-10KRSP 14-9KING d 20KEZY 13-10KIOA 25-18Y100 19-17WMYQ 18-18WOW 18-10WNOE 11-9WJDX 12-10WSGA 8-7WLEE15-15KCPX 11-9KYNO 16-7WPOP 15.13WYSL 12-8WKBW 9-6WLAC 11-8WDXR 15-12

P3WCFL 16-13WQAM 4-3KJR 20-15WLPL 13-11WJON 25-23WISM 15_13WGH 9-6WKLO 30-27KEEL 9-27WERC 6-6CHUM 10-4WAMS 4-2WRIE 14-10WNAM d 23KN

4-4WACI 10-8WORG 3-2KJOY 25-26WROV 15-15WEE() 3-16KDZA 18-17


E GLORIA GAYNOR-2:55Never Can Say Goodbye (MGM)

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LABELLE-3:14Lady Marmalade (Epic)

THE EAGLES -3:25Best Of My Love (Asylum)

LP: On The Border

PI P2 P3KHJ 7-6 KSJO 13-8 WCFL 4-3KKDJ 9-3 KBEQ 10-7 WQAM 5-4KFRC 13-9 KAFY 16-10 WMAK 5-3WABC 19-16 KAKC 13-8 WNCI 3-299X 10-12 KRSP 6-3 KJR 6-4WFIL 15-9 KING 4-5 KJRB 4-13KDWB 4-3 KEZY 10-6 WLPL 2-4KSTP 5-4 KIOA 10-8 K100 7-313Q 4-3 Y100 17-11 WJON 5-4WPEZ 8-7 WZUU 3-3 WISM 5-3WIBG 3-2 WMYQ 14-6 WGH 5-4CKLW 5-4 WVOV 13-6 WAKY 3-5KLIF 5-3 WOW 17-9 WKLO 7-10WRKO 9-6 WHBQ 9-8 KEEL 3-3WIFI 2-1 WNOE 8-6 KUPD 3-1WQXI 4-5 KIMN 6-6 WBBQ 2-6Z93 2-5 WJDX 4-12 WERC 4-2WLS 4-3 WSGA 3-2 CHUM 29-18WEAM 8-6 WGOW 7-7 WAMS 6-3WRC 7-8 WLEE 4-2 WROK 4-4KSLQ a 16 WBBF 5-4 WRIE 18-14U100 4-5 KCPX 3-2 WNAM 12-7WGCL 6-7 KYNO 18-9 WBGN-4-6

P2WZZM 2-3 KDON 12-10WPOP 11-11 WACI 11-5

WSAI 4-3 WYSL 5-3 KKLS 4-3WCAO 8-8 KFMG 7-6 WORG 14-10WOKY 7-4 WKBW 3-4 KJOY 9-10WYRE 5-2 KTLK?-7 WROV1-5WAVZ 11-6 WLAC 9-7 WVLK 3-4WGNG 11-10 WDXR 7-7 WRFC 8-2WOAI 17-8 WEED 2-1

3-2KKXL 9-6WSAR 5-6

ELECTRICLIGHT ORCHESTRA -3:06Can't Get It Out Of My Head

,(UA) LP: Eldorado

P1WFIL 24-18KSTP 15-1413Q 28-26WIBG 24-19WIFI 23-20WQXI 24-20WEAM 22-20WPGC a

P2WCAO 17-15WYRE 20-14WGNG 27-27KAFY aKING aWs/0v 21-19WSGP 27-25WGOW 24-23WLEE 29-29KYNO 27-24WYSL onKTLK 19-19

P3WQAM a 36WLPL 16-15K100 26-24WJON 18-21WISM 25-23WGH 23-17KEEL 23-16WAMS aWRIE 30-26WNAM onWACI 12-9KJOY 17-17WROV 27-23WVLK 21-17WRFC 18-17WEE() 6-6KDZA a 42

FDAN FOGELBERG-3:18Part Of The Plan (Epic)

LP: Souvenirs

P1KDWB d 26WEAM 24-21U100 21-18

P2KSJO onKRSP 25-23WJDX 20-20WBBF 29-22KCPX 13-11KTLK 1-2

P3WCFL 34-31WNCI 34-25KJ RB aWLPL 22-21WJON 8-7WISM onWGH nKEEL 32-26KUPD d 33WBBQ 27-18WROK onWRIE 20-15WORG aKJOY 30-25WROV d 29WEE() 30-27WSAR a

DAVID GATES -2:58Never Let Her Go (Elektra)

LP: Never Let Her Go

P1CKLW aU100 25-24

P2WSAI onKAKC 9-7KIMN 26-23WZZM 23-18

P3 -

WNCI d 38KJR aWJON 27-26WISM onWAKY 28-18WKLO a 33KUPD 26-21WBBQ 22-19WROK onWRIEa 32KDON 23-26WACI 39-37KKLS 16-13WORG aWROV d 30WVLK d 30WRFC 30-24WEE() onKKXL 21-19WSAR 19-17

' P1KFRC 15-1399X 11-11WFIL 10-12KSTP 26-13WIBG 8-10CKLW 29-26WRKO 5-10WQXI 13-14Z93 19-17WLS 9-8WEAM 17-17KSLQ 3-4WGCL 14-5

P2WSAI 23-24WOKY 11-14WYRE 15-15WGNG 13-14WOAI 10-14KBEQ 14-14KAFY 6-12KAKC 6-4KING 13-13KEZY 4-11Y100 16-18WZUU 9-9WMYQ 9-13WHBQ 8-14WNOE 20-19WJDX 10-14WLEE 12-21KCPX 23-16WZZM 21-19WPOP 14-14WYSL 8-20WKBW 13-12WDXR 16-24

Record is still alive in several markets.

P3WCFL 13-8WQAM 18-23KJR 10-6WJON 15-20WISM 6-11WGH 6-13WKLO 28-25KUPD 15-15WERC 8-14CHUM 16-12WAMS 7-11WROK 12-7WRIE 11-11WBGN 20-16WACI 7-6WORG 6-6WROV 11-7WVLK 10-5WEEO 9-22KDZA 7-13

GRAND FUNK -3:16Some Kind Of Wonderful(Capitol)LP: All The Girls In The World

P1KHJ 10-8KKDJ 14-13KFRC 17-10WABC 24-20WFIL 8-11KDWB d 25WPEZ 19-20WIBG 4-9CKLW 23-19KLIF aWRKO 13-8WIFI 17-17WQXI 8-8Z93 6-4WLS a 13WEAM 12-10WRC 21-17U100 23-22WGCL 2-9

P2WSAI 17-16WCAO 6-5WOKY 14-12WYRE 7-5WAVZ 12-11WGNG 10-9WOAI 15-18KSJO 12-10KBEQ 12-12KAFY 8-8KAKC 7-1KRSP 11-8KING 12-6KEZY 18-18Y100 a 30WZUU 8-4WVOV 8-12WOW 16-8WHBQ 14-5KIMN 13-12WSGA 12-12WLEE 8-5KCPX 10-6KYNO 19-11WZZM 13-11WPOP 23-18WYSL 17-16KFMG 10-12WKBW 27-25KTLK 11-11WLAC 12-11WDXR 3-5

P3WCFL 15-11WQAM 3-5WMAK 4-3WNCI 7-7_KJR 8-8KJRB 8-6WLPL 7-3K100 8-6WJON 17-11WISM 11-10WGH 13-10WAKY 4-8WKLO 3-3KUPD 5-3WBBQ 7-1WERC 10-7CHUM 9-8WAMS 11-4WROK 11-9WNAM 21-15WBGN 10-8KDON 11-8WACI 16-13WORG 11-8KJOY 16-27WROV 12-8WVLK 12-12WRFC 6-4WEE() 13-8KDZA 8-4KKXL 12-8WSAR 8-13

HGEORGE HARRISON-3:12Ding Dong; Ding Dong(Apple)LP: Dark Horse

P1 P3WNCI 30-22WGH nWIRE 31-30WBGN 23-19WACI 37-34KKLS 19-17WORG aWROV 26-26WEE() 20-19KDZA 36-35KKXL 19-12

Record is over most places.

P2WYRE 24-22WGNG 20-18KBEQ 21-25WBBF 20-19WPOP 29-23KFMG 22-22KTLK 16-13

JETHRO TULL-3:20Bungle In Jungle (Chrysalis)

LP: War Child

PIKHJ 22-29KKDJ 12-14KDWB 7.12KSTP 16-1713Q 14-15WPEZ 14-14CKLW 7-9WDRQ 9-7KLIF 10-12WIFI 22-28WLS 8-7WEAM 4-8WRC 8-11U100 5-6

P2WSAI 16-17WYRE 10-12WOAI 9-13KBEQ 24-24KAFY 11-19KRSP 8-13KING 10-8Y100 10-16WZUU 12-14WHBQ 19-21WNOE 18-17KIMN 23-31WBBF 15-14KCPX 4-14WZZM 22-27WDXR 24-27

P3WCFL 9-7WQAM 12-12WMAK 14-18KJR 5-5KJRB 14-26KUPD 6-9CHUM 8-6WAMS 16-23WROK 10-12WNAM 9-10WBGN 16-23WACI 18-31WORG 20-27WROV 7-14KDZA 20-36

ELTON JOHN -5:58Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds(MCA)

P1KHJ 6-10

KKDJ 6-7KFRC 3-6WABC 3-799X 13-16WFIL 11-18KDWB 12-1313Q 7-10WPEZ 7-8WIBG 27-28CKLW 3-3WDRQ 8-10KLIF 3-5WRKO 4-7-WIFI 7-14WQXI 17-18Z93 13-16WLS 7-11WEAM 3-5WRC 9-13KSLQ 9-19WGCL 8-12

P2WSAI 5-4WCAO 16-26WOKY 8-8WYRE 2-9WAVZ 6-10WGNG 5-7

P2WOAI 12-24KSJO 3-5KBEQ 11-17KAFY 10-26KAKC 16-23KRSP 4-7KING 3-4KEZY 5-9KIOA 11-10KCBQ 5-7Y100 8-9WZUU 5-8WMYQ 15-19WVOV onWOW 4-14WHBQ 5-12WNOE 5-11WSGA 5-9WGOW 12-18WLEE 19-26WBBF 9-10KCPX 1-3KYNO 6-12WZZM 7-20WPOP 4-10WYSL 2-6KFMG 6-9WKBW 7-10KTLK 10-16WLAC onWDXR 4-9

P3WCFL 5-10WQAM 10-1.7WMAK 7-10KJR 7-10KJRB 6-10K100 4-13WJON 6-9WISM 4-7WGH 8-16WKLO 12-26KEEL 5-9KUPD 4-7WERC 9-18CHUM 1-2WAMS 13-21WROK 5-8WRIE 4-6WNAM 1-6WBGN 17-24KDON 22-33WACI 8-16WORG 16-25WROV 10-17WVLK 5-15KDZA 6-10KKXL 3-4

SAMMY JOHNS -2:54Chevy Van (GRC)

P1WQXI nU100 6-4

P2KSJO aWGNG onKRSP aKIMN a 40WJDX a 22WGOW d 25WYSL aKTLK 39-3]

P3WMAK 30-29KJRB aK100 onWJON aWISM onWGH nWAKY onKEEL 35-30KUPD aWBBQ 30-24WERC d 29WRIE 37-28WBGN onKDON 32-24WACI aKJOY aWROV onWVLK aWRFC d 34WSAR on

CAROLE KING -3:30Nightingale (Ode)

LP: Jazzman

PI.KHJ 29-20WIFI 25-26Z93 dayWEAM 18-18WGCL 11-15

WCAO 24-21WGNG aKAFY 23-23KEZY onWZUU 23-22WHBQ 26-24KIMN 21-14WLEE 20-20KCPX 30-27KYNO 25-22WPOP 28-26WYSL d 26KTLK 22-17

P3WQAM a 33WMAK d 28WNCI 23-18KJR onWLPL 15-12K100 17-16WISM onWGH daysKEEL 20-15KUPD d 32WBBQ 26-20WAMS aWROK onWRIE 27-19WNAM onWBGN 21-18KDON 24-20WACI 14-10KKLS 13-11WORG 25-21WROV 28-25WVLK 18-13WRFC 25-22WEEO 12-11KDZA 26-24KKXL 17-17WSAR 24-19

LLOVE UNLIMITED -3:12I Belong To You (20th )

LP: In Heat JP

WIFI 29-29WDRQ 10-11WQXI 21-13Z93 11-15

P2WZZM a 29

P3WAKY 20-10WKLO 23-6KJOY d 28WRFC 37-32WSAR 26-20

LP: Nightbirds

P1KHJ 24-14KKDJ 20-11KFRC d 21WABC a 1399X 18-6WFIL16-13WIBG 13-7CKLW d 28WRKO 8-5WIFI 12-6WQXI 29-22Z93 18-10WEAM d 27WPGC aWGCL a 25

P2WCAO 27-25WAVZ 25-16WGNG onKSJO onKAFYKAKC aKING aKEZY d 14KLEO aWHBQ 29-25WNOE 9-5WSGA 28-23WGOW onWLEE d 30KYNO aWZZM a 30WPOP 20-7WYSL d 28KFMG a 30WKBW d 23KTLK aWLAC aWDXR d 23

Super action.

P3WQAM a 34WMAK aWNCI 48-37KJR onKJRB onWLPL 30-25K100 d 17WJON d 30WISM onWGH a 28WAKY d 27WKLO 34-28KEEL 29-20WBBQ a 36WAMS aWBGN onKDON aKKLS aWORG d 30KJOY 4-3WROV aWRFC 35-28WEED onKKXL aKREM aWSAR 12-5

JOHN LENNON-2:58No. 9 Dream (Apple)

LP: Walls and Bridges

P1WABC a 30WIBG 23-22WEAM 26-25U100 20-20

P3WCFL 25-21WMAK 26-21WNCI 17-16KJR 30-29WLPL 4-5K100 23-21WJON 23-19WISM 24-24WGH 21-15KEEL 15-11KUPD 24-18WBBQ 16-11WAMS d 25WROK d 34WRIE 25-25WNAM 13-13KDON 21-17WACI 25-22KKLS 5-4WORG 22-20WROV 17-13WRFC 17-16WEE() 22-20KDZA 28-27

Most moves were sizeable jumps.

P')WCAO 13-12WY RE 18-16WGNG 19-17WOAI 11-10KAFY 30-24KRSP 17-15KING onKIOA 26-19WZUU 21-21WOW aKIMN 7-7WSGA 24-21WLEE 13-10KYNO 20-17WPOP 27-24WYSL 24-24KFMG 23-23KTLK 9-9

LYNYRD SKYNYRD-4: 41Free Bird (MCA)

LP: Pron. Leh -nerd Skin -nerd

P1 P2 P3KDWB 9-7 WYRE 17-10 WAKY 12-14KSTP 25-9 KBEQ 23-23 WKLO 13-16WQXI 10-11 WHBQ 6-9 WBBQ 8-15WEAM 13-12 WLEE 24-22 WACI 15-27WRC 13-14 WKBW 24-24 KDZA 27-28U100 14A.7. WDXR 12-10 KKXL 6-15

MBARRY MANILOW-3:15Mandy (Bell)

LP: Barry Manilow II

P1KHJ 3-3KKDJ 2-2KFRC 1-1WABC 1-199X 4-3WFIL 1-1KDWB 1-2KSTP 1-313Q 3-4WPEZ 1-1WIBG 1-1CKLW 1-1WDRQ 3-4KLI F 1-1WRKO 3-3WIFI 5-2WQXI 1-3Z93 4-6WLS 1-1WEAM 2-3WRC 3-4KSLQ 1-1U100 1-2WGCL 1-3

P2WSA I 1-1WCAO 2-3WOKY 1-2WYRE 3.3WAVZ 1-1WGNG 1-2WOAI 1-2

Still pulling top phones.

P2KSJO 1-3KBEQ 1-1KAFY 1-2KAKC 3-3KRSP 1-4KING 2-2KEZY 1-3KIOA 2-2KCBQ 9-5Y100 2-2WZUU 1-2WMYQ 4-3WVOV 2-5WHBQ 1-3WNOE 2-4WJDX 2-6WSGA 1-1WGOW 4-14WLEE 3-8WBBF 1-6KCPX 6-7KYNO 2-2WZZM 1-1WPOP 3-2WYSL 4-4KFMG 1-1WKBW 1-1KTLK 5-12WLAC 4-3WDXR 1-2

P3WCFL 3-1WQAM 2-2WMAK 2-4WNCI 6-10KJR 3-3KJRB 3-3WLPL 5-8K100 1-1WJON 4-8WISM 1-1WGH 1-1WAKY 2-2WKLO 1-1KEEL 6-7KUPD 1-5WBBQ 5-13WERC 5-12CHUM 3-1WAMS 1-1WROK 1-2WRIE 1-2WNAM 2-2WBGN 11-14KDON 1-3WACI 1-3KKLS 6-7WORG 1-4KJOY 20-22WROV 2-3WVLK 1-3WRFC 4-6WEED 1-5WSAR 2-3KDZA 2-1KKXL 1-2

RFRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1975

PARALLELSa.= Acid

d= Debut n= Nite *DENOTES FIRST WEEK IN PARALLELS

JONI MITCHELL -3:10Big Yellow Taxi (Asylum)

LP: Miles of Aisles

P1CKLW 21-21U100 on

P2WCAO 20-16WY RE 23-19WVOV 20-22WLEE d 27WZZM 19-17

P3WNCI 18-13KJR onWLPL 26-23WISM onWGH a 27KEEL 28-24KUPD d 36CHUM aWROK onWRIE 22-17WNAM aWROV d 27WVLK 30-19WRFC 33-29WEE() onKDZA d 39

MARIA MULDAUR-3: 26I'M A Woman (WB)

LP: Waitress In The Donut Shop

P1KFRC aKSTP onWIBG d 30WRKO 18-18WQXI 25-25Z93 on

P2 P3WCAO 25-24 WMAK 25-20WAVZ 21-21 KJR 24-23WGNG 17-16 KJRB d 29KSJO on K100 24-23KAFY 27-22 WJON 30-27KAKC 28-26 WISM d 29KRSP a WGH 24-20KING on KEEL a 28WZUU 26-24 KUPD 18-11WVOV 17-16 WBBQ 24-23KIMN 40-34 WERC 28-22WSGA 30-27 WROK 33-30WGOW d 15 WRIE 28-20WLEE 26-19 WNAM 26-22KYNO d 27 WBGN 15-12WZZM 15-13 KDON 33-31WPOP d 29 WACI d 38WYSL on WORG 29-26KTLK 20-15 KJOY 10-7WLAC on WROV 23-21WDXR 23-15 WVLK 15-9

WRFC 24-23WEE() 25-21KDZA 34-32WSAR 13-14

NSAM NEELY-2:15I Fought The Law (A&M)

PIWIBG 29-27

P2 P3WSAI on WNCI 42-35WCAO on WISM on.KRSP 27-25 KUPD d 34WZUU 28-27 WBBQ 33-29WHBQ 30-27 WBGN 29-21KCPX 27-22 WCOL onKFMG 27-26 WRFC 32-30

WEE() on

4

OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN -3:28Have You Never BeenMellow (MCA)LP: Have You Never Been

P1KHJ a 26 KAFY d 28KFRC a KAKC aWFIL a KRSP 18-6KSTP d 23 KING on13Q a 28 KEZY aWIBG 26-20 Y100 a 28CKLW a KLEO aKLIF 18-7 WZUU 29-25WRKO a 29 WMYQ 32-16WIFI a WVOV 14-4WQXI d 19 WOW a 18Z93 17-12 WHBQ d 16WEAM d 28 WNOE 24-14U100 24-19 KIMN 28-8WGCL 20-21 WJDX 13-5

WSGA 20-10WGOW 19-6WLEE aKCPX d 23KYNO d 28WZZM 25-15WPOP 30-22WYSL d 23KFMG 30-13WKBW 19-15

WOAI a 29 KTLK 15-3KSJO on 1WLAC d 15KBEQ a 20 WDXR a

WSAI 15-5WCAO 29-23WOKY a 27WY RE aWAVZ d 28WGNG 29-25

P2 P3WCFL 35-32WQAM 20-13WMAK 27-23WNCI 43-32KJR d 24KJRB 21-12WLPL aK100 d 27WJON 28-14WISM 30-21WGH onWAKY d 29WKLO 24-14KEEL 33-22KUPD d 24WBBQ 34-25WERC 18-8CHUM aWAMS aWROK 31-17WRIE 35-27WNAM d 14WBGN aKDON 29-21WACI 36-30KKLS 26-20WORG d 29KJOY 28-12WROV 22-11WVLK d 29

Pulling good phones & jumps. WRFC 27-15WEEO d 29KDZA 37-31KKSL 32-22WSAR a

OHIO PLAYERS -3:12Fire (Mercury)

LP: Fire

P1KHJ 13-7KKDJ 11-8KFRC 8-4WABC 7-699X 5-7WFIL d 22KDWB 10-513Q 13-7WPEZ a 22WIBG 12-4CKLW 12-11WDRQ 2-3KLI F aWRKO 20-13WIFI 9-11WQXI 3-2Z93 1-2WEAM 10-7WRC 12-7KSLQ 2-2WGCL 7-2

P2WSAI a 28WCAO 15-11WYRE 22-11WAVZ 14-9WGNG 14-11WOAI 3-3KSJO 15-7KBEQ 6-6KAFY 18-11KROY aKAKC 19-14KRSPd 26KING d 18KIOA 28-20KCBQ 18-13Y100 1-1WMYQ 1-1WVOV a 8WHBQ 2-1WNOE 1-2WSGA 9-4WGOW 2-3WLEE 5-4WBBF 16-7KYNO d 30WZZM 28-24WPOP d 27WYSL 11-11KTLK 28-24WLAC 1-6WDXR 2-1Very strong.

P3WCFL 22-14WQAM 1-1WNCI 13-9KJR 27-26KJRB 27-24WLPL 25-22K100 19-8WJON a 24WISM 26-18WGH 10-8WAKY 8-3WKLO 6-8KUPD 19-10WBBQ 4-3WERC d 20WAMS d 16WBGN d 27KDON 15-9WACI 21-17KKLS 27-21WORG 9-5KJOY 5-5WROV 20-10WRFC 8-2WEED 23-15KDZA 32-25KKXL 31-26WSAR 10-7

DONNY & MARIE -2: 47Morning Side Of The Mountain(MGM)LP: I'm Leaving It All Up To You

P1KKDJ 17-22WFIL 17-15WIBG 15-26WRKO 16-16WLS 5-5WEAM 19-19KSLQ 10-13

P/WSAI 13-14WCAO 4-7WOKY 6-6WAVZ 16-17WGNG 4-8WOAI 16-7KBEQ 5-5KAFY 5-9KAKC 23-21KING 18-16KIOA 9-14WOW 15-11WNOE 15-15WJDX 3-8WLEE 11-24KYNO 13-5WPOP 13-16KFMG 11-11WKBW 8-8KTLK 12-18WOXR 13-20

P3WC FL 7-9WQAM 13-16WMAK 11-15KJR 26-14KJRB 7-5WLPL 12-13K100 13-25WISM 7-9WGH 15-12WAKY 23-22WKLO 15-9WERC 13-13CHUM 11-10WAMS 20-15WROK 7-5WRIE 10-5WNAM 4-5WACI 17-7KKLS 28-28WROG 4-3WEEO 17-23KDZA 5-7KKXL 14-7

ORLANDO & DAWN -3:04Look In My Eyes PrettyWoman (Arista)LP: Prime Time

P1

WIBG 22-21WEAM 27-26

P2WSAI onWCAO 21-20WOKY 18-18WY RE 26-24WGNG 26-2.4KAFY 15-15KRSP 16-19WZUU 6-10WOW d 20WNOE d 25WSGA 22-20WLEE 18-18KYNO 22-21WPOP 24-20WYSL 22-22KTLK 23-20WDXR 20-13

P3WMAK 24-22WNCI 19-17KJR d 30KJRB 25-23WLPL 18-19WJON 21-18WISM 27-26WGH 26-23KEEL 14-10WBBQ 11-10WERC 19-16WAMS 24-20WRIE 26-18WNAM 29-21KDON 25-23WACI 35-32WORG 18-17WVLK 17-10WEE() d 30KDZA 29-26WSAR 20-18

BILLY PRESTON -2:38Struttin' (A&M)

LP: The Kids & Me

P1WGCL 5-1

P2WLEE 14-14

P3WGH 25-22KDON 27-25WRFC 20-20WEED 15-13KDZA 41-40

TODD RUNDGREN- 2:45Wolfinan Jack (Bearsville )

LP: Something/Anything

P1 P2WVOV 19-20WOW aKCPX 9-8

P3WNCI 15-14WROK 17-23WNAM 15-27

LINDA RONSTADT-3:35You're No Good (Capitol)

LP: Heart Like A Wheei

P1KHJ 5-5KKDJ 18-16KFRC 6-7WABC 23-1299X a 17WFIL 12-8KDWB 11-9KSTP 13-613Q 20-17WPEZ 25-18WIBG 6-5CKLW 18-12KLIF 8-4WRKO 6-4WIFI 6-5WQXI 9-4Z93 3-1WLS 10-6WEAM 14-11WRC 14-12KSLQ 17-3U100 15-16WGCL 4-6

P2WSAI 10-7WCAO 9-2WOKY 16-11WYRE 8-6WAVZ 10-8WGNG 7-3WOAI 8-6KSJO 5-4KBEQ 9-8

P2KAFY 9-6KAKC 20-13KRSP 5-2KING 9-9KEZY 2-1KIOA 5-7KCBQ 23-19Y100 23-20WZUU 19-12WVOV 3-2WOW 9-4WHBQ 11-6WNOE 10-1KIMN 1-4WJDX 15-15WSGA 6-5WGOW 13-13WLEE 6-3WBBF a 20KCPX 8-5KYNO 15-6WZZM 9-9WPOP 9-6WYSL 14-9KFMG 15-10WKBW 23-17KTLK 3-5WLAC onWDXR 6-6

P3WCFL 19-12WQAM 7-9WMAK 1-1WNCI 2-11KJR 9-9KJRB 9-8WLPL 9-6K100 6-7WJON 12-6WISM 14-6WGH 7-5WAKY 1-1WKLO 8-5KEEL 4-4KUPD 2-2WBBQ 3-2WERC 3-5CHUM 28-20WAMS 18-12WROK 20-13WRIE 13-9WNAM 18-9WBGN 8-5KDON 7-5WACI 19-14KKLS 11-6WORG 15-13KJOY 7-18WROV 4-2WVLK 7-2WRFC 9-11WEEO 14-2KDZA 15-6KKXL 11-3WSAR 4-4

SNEIL SEDAKA-2:50Laughter In The Rain (Rocket)

LP: Sedaka's Back

PIKHJ 1-1KKDJ 1-1KFRC 16-20WABC 2-299X 6-10WFIL 6-6KDWB 14-14KSTP 7-813Q 11-11WPEZ 9-11WIBG 16-29CKLW 15-18KLIF 4-6WIFI 11-10WLS 6-9KSLQ 4-8

P2WSAI 6-6WCAO 14-22WOKY 9-10WAVZ 9-15WGNG 3-4WOAI 13-16KBEQ 18-18KING 8-12KEZY 6-7KIOA 8-5KCBQ 4-3Y100 3-4WZUU 7-7WMYQ 3-4WOW 5-6WHBQ 7-10WNOE 6-7WSGA 15-28WLEE 21-25WBBF 10-9KYNO 8-13WYSL 9-21KFMG 18-19WKBW 11-13WDXR 18-25

P3WCFL 2-5WQAM 8-10K100 2-2WISM 3-4WGH 4-3WKLO 17-24KEEL 8-8WERC 25-27CHUM 6-9WROK 16-20WRIE 7-7WNAM 10-12WACI 3-11WORG 8-14WVLK 22-25KDZA 12-14KKXL 29-30

PHOEBE SNOW -3:15Poetry Man (Shelter)

LP: Phoebe Snow

PIKDWB a 27

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Picked up nicely this week.

CAT STEVENS-3:14Ready (A&M)

LP: Buddah & The Chocolate Box

PI P2 P3WGNG on WGH 11-19KAFY d 29 KDON 20-19KYNO 23-18 WACI 13-12KTLK 30-25 WVLK 28-18

KDZA 38-37

STY X- 2:58Lady (Wooden Nickel)

LP: Styx, II

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SUGARLOAF/JERRY CORBETTA-3:20

on't Call Us,We'll Call You (Claridge) .

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TTHREE DEGREES -2:58When Will I See You (PhylInt)

LP: Three Degrees

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P2WSAI 9-20WOKY 5-7WOAI 26-26KING 16-14KEZY 16-15KIOA 6-13KCBQ 7-10Y100 6-8WMYQ 21-22WSGA 14-18WBBF 24-30KFMG 12-14WKBW 16-18

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Still strong, if off a chart has been stashed.

vFRANKIE VALLI-3:25My Eyes Adored You(Private Stock)

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PARALLELSSTEVIE WONDER -4:05Reggae Woman (Tamla)

LP: Fulfillingness' First Finale

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P2WAVZ 5-7WGNG 6-13WOAI 4-11KSJO 6-6

P3WCFL 6-4WQAM 6-6WMAK 3-5K100 15=19WISM 13-17WERC 2-4CHUM 7-5WAMS 8-5WROK 8-10WNAM onKDON 19-22WACI 20-35

WZZM 16-21 WORG 5-115-5 WROV 6-9

WP°PKFMG 13-17 KDZA 10-12WLAC 5-1WDXR 17-28

P2KBEQ 13-15KAFY 3-5KAKC 1-2KRSP 19-17KCGQ 10-9Y100 11-7WMYQ 5-5WOW 3-3WNOE 4-10WJDX 9-9WGOW 8-17WBBF 7-8KYNO 4-4

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

add( ROCK )

WROK/ROCKFORDDave Hamtilon

Phoebe SnowJim WeatherlyPaula WebbPolly BrownHOTLinda Ronstadt 20-13AWB 22-15Frankie Valli 28-18

WJON/ST CLOUDTom Kay

Ohio PlayersNeil DiamondBad CoSammy JohnsMinnie RipertonAndy WilliamsJames MontgomeryHOTLinda Ronstadt 12-6Sugarloaf 20-13Olivia Newton -John 28-14BTO 26-17

KDON/SALINASPaul McNeal

LabelleJackson FiveCharlie DanielsOzark Mt DaredevilsHOTDavid Bowie 26-15Sammy Johns 32-24

K100/LOS ANGELESNancy Trabish

Ringo Starr "No No"Bob DylanLinda Ronstadt 1p cutRufusHOTOhio Players 19-8Frankie Valli 21-12David Bowie 22-15

KEEL/SHREVEPORTMike Steele

Maria MuldaurNeil DiamondAl DowningB.J. ThomasHOTDoobie Bros 11-5ELO 23-16Styx 30-18Olivia Newton -John 33-22

KKAM/PUEBLOPaul Ehlis

Ringo Starr "No No"Ozark Mt DaredeilvsAl MartinoBlue Swede (nite)Steppenwolf (nite)HOTDoobie Bros 7-2Olivia Newton -John 22-12AWB 26-20

addWINN/LOUISVILLEBob BurkettElvis PresleyDebra BarberRay Price*Dennis PayneMike LunsfordHoyt Axton (flip)Tommy Overstreet

WSLR/AKRON

Gene WatsonBrian ShawKenny EarlRex Allen, Jr. (flip)Mike Lunsford

( COUNTRY )Continued from page 32

KSON/SAN DIEGOHoyt AxtonRay Price*Charlie Rich*Mel Tillis

WBAP/FORT WORTHBill. Anderson*Ray Price*Barbara Mandrel!Billy ThundercloudPaula Webb

KRMD/SHREVEPORT

Stoney EdwardsGlen CampbellMelba Montgomery*Dolly Parton

WBAM/MONTGOMERY.

Sonny JamesMel TillisStoney EdwardsPat RobertsSue ThompsonCharlie Rich*David WillsOlivia Newton -JohnDavid Gates

KBOX/DALLASJohnny DuncanLittle David WilkinsDon GibsonRay Price*Hoyt Axton

Linda AlterContinued from page 20

knows that there's records on them,but apparently it's always just kindof been tought that it just happens.

R&R: It could be like a sleepinggiant.

LA: Oh, exactly. It's somethingthat could be capitalized on to noend. To absolutely no end. Becauseit's untapped. It's something thathasn't really been fooled withbecause nobody has ever taken thetime to see the enormous effect, it'ssomething that's taken for granted.That's the whole thing.

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ChrysalisContinued from page 19

into AM that much? Do you reallycare about it?

PAPALE: Yes, you have to careabout it because you are reaching amass audience you can't ignore.

R&R: But your success, incomeand rapport has been with theFM's.

MANCUSO: Well, we're gettingback to the whole thing we weretalking about earlier. The thing withthat is that we're dealing with peoplewho are sensitive to music. And let'sface it, they are lust not sensitive tomusic in top 40 radio for whateverreason. Whether they themselvesare not or whether they are underthe wrath of a general manager whosays "why did you put this record onand not that one which is fifty with abullet?" There are so manydifferent variables. There are somany situations.

R&R: Futuristically speaking, doyou foresee yourself getting moreinto an AM stream?

PAPALE: We'll probably stillmaintain our image as being analbum oriented company, but wewill not negate the fact that if wehave a strong cut from an album, wewill release it for AM play. Youcannot ignore that gigantic audiencethat is there to give you at least aquarter of a million or more units.

R& R: Are you as straight forwardwith the stations in your opinions asyou have expressed to me?

MANCUSO: We had a case lastweek with a program director whosaid our album was number twenty-one in the market. Jimmy Fox atKCBQ. So we researched the wholething. We talked to KPRI, KSEA,KGB, caught all the major retailoutlets in the city and we came upwith number four or five.

PAPALE: So we called him backand said "we respect your opinion,but you're wrong."

MANCUSO: What we told him was"you're full of shit, man. You'reabsolutely wrong and you can't sitthere and tell us that you're right."

PAPALE: So he said "O.K."

MANCUSO: We're going to tellthem when they're wrong and if theydon't like it, it's too damn bad,because we don't have the time towaste on people like that.

R&R: Well the promotion end ofthe business seems to be taking atrend towards a total honesty andfacts approach. That's why peoplelike Gerry Peterson of KHJ will tellyou up front if he is or isn't going togo on the record and why. You don'thave to beat around the bush and donumbers. He doesn't lead you along.

MANCUSO: Exactly, and that'sall you can ask of a radio station.

PAPALE: One lie builds intoanother one, so it's just easier andmakes more sense to tell the truthand be up front with one anotherwhether it's a promotion man or aPD.

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COUNTRYDirectfromDuncan

by Jim DuncanOut at COLUMBIA records are JIMMY DEAN, BARBARA

MANDRELL and newcomer SANDI BURNETT. DEAN has not donemuch recording for the company and this wasn't much of a surprise.SANDI BURNETT being dropped was somewhat of a surprise becauseCOLUMBIA has been so involved with a lot of promotion for this gal whowas a featured performer on the TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD"Moscow" T.V. special. BARBARA MANDRELL has been working toget out of her contract as far back as the October CMA convention. AD.J. release of her latest single: "Wonder When Baby's Coming Home"was shipped by mistake to several markets and according to CHUCKTHAGGARD here in Hollywood the record is not going to be released.

Good news for WILLIE NELSON fans in our audience: he has signedwith COLUMBIA and will be one of the featured acts at the COLUMBIAnational convention in Atlanta next week. On EPIC now is JOESTAMPLEY as you've heard before, but I wanted to mention his firstrelease on that label will be next week. His first single will be a truckdriving song called: "Roll On Big Mama." It will be featured on his newalbum of the sane name. ( I hope so!) ... JERRY WALLACE has leftMCA to join MGM ...

JOHN WIDDECOMB has walked out on his MOTOWN-ownedME LODYLAN D job he headed for the last few months. JOHN said thecompany didn't want to play the game his way. JOHN FISHER willcontinue to head things up from Nashville KKYX, our reportingstation from San Antonio, Texas, will be holding their 3rd annual "GreatCountry River Festival" this Friday (31) through the weekend. Thestation will have four stages set up along the San Antonio River thatruns right through the main section of town. Each stage will havedifferent country talent featured. Bill Rhode, station P.D. says they areexpecting over 100,000 people again this year. Besides country music thefestival wi II have arts and craft show along the river...

KSPO will be featuring a different year in country music each weekduring 1975. Each week, the Spokane station will play three cuts perhour from their "spotlight week." The music years will start at 1974 andconclude with 1956 ... PLAYBOY Records' BARBI BENTON has signedto tour Britain with CHARLEY PRIDE. This will be BARBI's first tourto England and PR I DE's second ... KLAC, Los Angeles will be salutingoutstanding country talent entertainers for seven consecutive days eachmonth during 1975...

Let it be knowns: BOB PITTMAN is NOT the "music director" ofWMAQ in Chicago, but rather ASSISTANT PROGRAM MANAGER whohandles the research division of the Music section of the NBC -ownedWMAQ. (Whew!!) PITTMAN called to inform me of my error. I standcorrected. (I hope you guys are writing this all down, I'll be askingquestion at the end of the year.) Bob also called to let me know he isreceiving some good action on the PAULA WEBB, "Dear Mr.President" release on 20th Century. Some of our reporting stations havepicked this up and have gotten similar reaction...

From CAPITOL: HAGGARD has a new single on its way. It'sdescribed as "a country romance tune" 3:05 in length and called:"Always Wanting You." ... WARNER has officially flipped the REXALLEN, JR. The side will be "I Can See Clearly Now." ... a new BILLY"Crash" CRADDOCK is being mailed out soon. Look for: "StillThinking About You."

BILL HART reports from WJJD in Chicago of a special "GoldenWeekend." The station is giving away "gold" bricks. Specially painted,by the jocks, "gold bricks! !"... WWOK in Miami found out from a recentreport over 50,000 people were jobless in the area and thd station is goingto do something to help. In cooperation with the Florida StateEmployment office, WWOK will broadcast job openings on -the -air eachday from 10-2... The latest contest from WHK in Cleveland has thi promoline: "WHK is out to belt a trucker." You guessed it: They are givingaway free belts to truckers. (They ought to get a picture of a truckerchewing on one of the winning belts. The caption could read: "WHKgives a trucker a belt in the mouth!!)

Without having heard the new GARY STEWART release on RCA, Ilike it just for its title: "She's Thinking Single and I'm DrinkingDoubles."... WSLR, Akron is celebrating 10 years of country music thismonth. This weekend they will have listeners featured as "guestD.J.'s." The audience will be invited to call in and record an intro for arecord... Baltimore, Maryland has lost one of its country stations.WBMD has changed to all . religion -format. (Say Amen and sendBROTHER DUNCAN your 55.00 for your own blessed record cloth...)

STEVE WARREN is out as music director of WHN, New York. TEDBEAR will be in charge for awhile. BEAR is assistant OperationsManager ... WSUN, St. Petersburg is very pleased with their latest ARBshowing them No. 1 18 plus in the market. (Yay Country! !)... Anotherreminder of the third Annual Country Radio Seminar in NashvilleMarch 14 and 15. Better sign up now ... More next week ... Be good or becareful.

Capricorn country recording artist Johnny Darrell was in Los Angeles last weekdoing promotion for his newly released single "Pieces Of My Life." While in town, hetaped a segment of "Big Country" a syndicated radio format. Shown left to right:Chris Lane of "Big Country" and Johnny Darrell.

KUZZ-Bakersfield held their ninth annual Toys For Tots Show during the holidays.Guest talent included Buck Owens, Tony Booth, Buddy Alan, Mayf Nutter, LawandaLindsey, and the Raye Sisters. Shown above are Jim Shaw of the Buckaroos,songwriter Rocky Topp, KUZZ PD Tommy Wright, and Capitol artist Buddy Alan.

MostRequested

CONWAY TWITTYLinda On My Mind (MCA)

FREDDY FENDERBefore Last Teardrop (ABC/Dot)

MARTY ROBBINSLife (MCA)

SherwoodContinued from page 18

won't play it. He's not in the businessto make friends -- he's in it to besuccessful and make money. We stillhave a lot of street programmerswho know what their audience wantto hear, like a George Michaels or aJay Cook. If Jay gets a gut feelingabout a single that he knows will fitthe format and please the audience,he'll play it no matter who is or isn'ton it. I love that, but there are fewerand fewer of those programmersleft.

Our promotion men have to have abetter awareness of radio and whatthey need -- a more scientificapproach which they have acquired.But, at the same time we still have tocommunicate the excitement of thatmusic. Everyone has a nerve in himthat gets shook by music. You can'tgo into a stone faced PD and justfeed him facts and figures. You haveto jump up and down on his desk andturn him on. If you don't someoneelse will. It's Steve's philosophy andmine that after all the systems,facts, and figures, if you haven'tturned people onto the music itself,you haven't done your job as a

promotion man.-Candy Tusken

COUNTRY ALBUMSHOTTEST cut to report seems to be "Country D.J." on the BILL

ANDERSON (MCA) I.p. Most program and music directors thought it wouldbe an "inside the bizz" cut of no interest to the audience, but our reportedairplay stations have had good reactions: KTUF, KLAK, KTCR, WJJD,KERE, WHK, KBUL and WPLO. STROG action on RONNIE MILSAP(RCA): KTUF, KLAK, WJJD, KFOX, KERE, KIKK, WHK, K000, KHOS.Big airplay cut: "Too Late To Worry." MAC DAVIS (Columbia) "Fall InLove With Your Wife": WDEE, KWJJ, KFOX. STATLER BROTHERS(Mercury) latest single to be "All American Girl." Airplay includes: WUNI,KRAK, WMC, KFOX. Action on BILLY SWAN (Monument) "Don't BeCruel": WUNI, KRAK, KUZZ, WMC and KIKK. CAL SMITH (MCA) onKCKC, KLAK, KBUL, KWJJ, KERE, "Brother Jack" is getting most actionfor Cal. Play picking up on the LARRY HOSFORD (Shelter) album: KNEW,KLAK, KFOX, KBUL. CONWAY TWITY (MCA) on Ip: KFOX, KTUF,WSUN, KLAK, KERE and KHOS. New BILLY SWAN single:"I'm Her Fool."

JESSI COLTERI'm Jessi Colter (Capitol)

The talent in the WAYLONJENNINGS family doesn't stop withthe man, his wife JESSI COLTERshows her stuff (on the cover ANDinside) with an album entirely devotedto her own compositions. WAYLON andKEN MANSFILED, the producers,have split the l.p. with two totallydifferent sides. Side One: all cuts areprogressive country, but that doesn'tmean traditional country stationsshouldn't listen for possible airplaycuts. Best Cuts: "I Hear A Song" and"You Ain't Never Been Loved." SideTwo: All cuts are more traditionalcountry.

RONNIE MILSAPLegend In My Time (RCA)

The 1974 Country Music MaleVocalist of the Year lives up to hisaward with his first album of '75.THREE potential singles include:"Too Late To Worry and Too Blue ToCry," "She Came Here For TheChange," and "I'll Leave Thit WorldLoving You." "Cookin' Country" doesexactly what the title suggests, with aclever story of record making behindit. The album includes cover songs ofDICKEY LEE and OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHN. Album includes No. 1 countryhit: "Legend In My Time."

-Jack London

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January 31, 19753 2 1 MICKEY GILLEY/City Lights (Playboy)2 1 2 RONNIE MILSAP/Legend In My Time (RCA)7 3 3 CAL SMITH/Time To Pay The Fiddler (MCA)20 7 0 TOM T. HALL/Sneaky Snake/I Care (Mercury)8 8 0 CHARLEY PRIDE/Then Who Am I (RCA)11 6 6 DON WILLIAMS/Ties That Bind (ABC/Dot)24 10 7 WAYLON JENNINGS/Rainy Day Woman (RCA)15 9 8 T.G. SHEPPARD/Devil In The Bottle (Melodyland)33 16 0 CONWAY TWITTY/Linda On My Mind (MCA)28 15 10 CRYSTAL GAYLE/Wrong Road Again (UA)13 20 DAVID WILLS/Song On The Juke Box (Epic)17 18 ® MOE BANDY/It Was Always So Easy (GRC)1 4 13 BILLY "Crash" CRADDOCK/Ruby Baby (ABC)21 14 14 C.W. MC CALL/Wolf Creek Pass (MGM)

4 5 15 MERLE HAGGARD/Kentucky Gambler (Capitol)40 24 16 LINDA RONSTADT/I Can't Help It (Capitol)

27 SUSAN RAYE/Whatcha Gonna Do With a Dog (Capitol)29 19 18 JOHNNY CASH/Lady Came From Baltimore (Columbia)5 11 19 GARY STEWART/Out Of Hand (RCA)25 23 20 BUCK OWENS/Great Expectations (Capitol)9 12 21 FREDDIE HART/My Woman's Man (Capitol)

32 DICKEY LEE/Busiest Memory In Town (RCA)

23 27 23 RED STEAGALL/Someone Cares For You (Capitol)

39 36 FREDDY FENDER/Before The NeXt Teardrop (ABC/Dot)

14 22 25 BRENDA LEE/Rock On Baby (MCA)

6 13 26 JOHNNY PAYCHECK/For A Minute There (Epic)

31 28 27 FARON YOUNG/Another You (Mercury)

35 29 28 BOBBY BARE/Singin' In The Kitchen (RCA)

37 m TOMMY OVERSTREET/I'm A Believer (ABC/Dot)

12 17 30 RAY PRICE/Like Old Times Again (Myrrh)

35 31 JERRY REED/Let's Sing Our Song (RCA)

16 25 32 STATLER BROTHERS/Susan When She Tried (Mercury)

(0 MAC DAVIS/Best Years of My Live (Columbia)

39 34 LOIS JOHNSON/Loving You Will Never Grow Old (20th)

26 30 35 JERRY WALLACE/I Wonder Whose Baby (MCA)TILLIS & BRYCE/You're The One (MGM)

40 37 PORTER WAGONER/Carolina Moonshiner(RCA)

senip. JOHN DENVER/Sweet Surrender (RCA)

.1* 39 ROY ROGERS/Hoppy, Gene & Me (20th)

40 DOTTIE WEST/Lay Back Lover (RCA)

.1.140. New Entries

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Roses & Love Songs (Myrrh) LetBILL ANDERSON

Feel The Same About You (MCA)BOB LUMAN

Proud Of You Baby (Epic)

MELBA MONTGOMERYGood Times Fool You (Elektra)

CHARLIE RICHMy Elusive Dreams (Epic)

FRIDAY. JANUARY 31, 1975

JIM DUNCAN/Editor

NEW &ACTIVERAY PRICE

Roses & Love Songs (Myrrh)Strongest added record of the week . . . off to a good start.

Adds include: KSO, WWOK, WMC, WUBE, WONE, KCKC,WSUN, WDEE, KTUF, WPLO, KHOS, WHO, KSPO, WAME,KIKK, KSON, WINN, WHN, KENR, KBOX AND PICKEDat: KAYO, KLAK.

BILL ANDERSONStill Feel The Same (MCA)

Many adds include: KSO, KAYO, WWOK, WONE, KCKC,KTCR, KLAK, WDEE, KTUF, WHO, WAME, KWJJ, KKYXand WHN. Pick hit at WJJD.

MELBA MONTGOMERYGood Times Fool You(Elektra)

Tremendous requests and sales . . . could be her strongesteffort yet. Deut-46 WJJD, 39-30 WUNI, Debut -34

WSLR . more adds this week: KBUL, KAYO, WUBE,WONE, KUZZ, WNCR, KHOS, KRMD, KKYX, KBFW,WHOO, WAME, KNEW, KWJJ.

BOB LUMANProud Of You Baby (Epic)

Top adds this week include WPLO, KIKK, KWJJ, KENR,KTUF, KCKC, WDEE, WMC, WWOK, KSO, WHK and manymore.


Continued gaining strength . . Debut -36 WMC, PickWONE . .. added: KLAK, WNCR, WHO, WBAM, KSON-,WHN, WDEE, KHOS, KAYO and more.ELVIS PRESLEY "My Boy" (RCA): picking up more adds: KSO,WUBE, KCKC, WDEE, KTUF, K000, WAME, WINN, and KENR.LA COSTA "He Took Me For A Ride" (Capitol) on the road to anotherhit with adds at WHK, WJJD, KCKC, KLAK, WNCR, KTUF and KERE.BILLIE JO SPEARS "Blanket On The Ground" (UA) continued strongadds: KNEW, WMC, KBUL, WONE, WJJD, WDEE, KIKK and KERE.SAM NEELEY "I Fought The Law" (A&M): Initial reaction is verygood ... more adds include: KCKC, KTCR, WUNI, WHOO, WISZBRIAN SHAW "The One She's Cheating With" (RCA): some good addsthis week. KHOS, WHO, WAME, KERE, KKYX and KENR.HOYT AXTON "Nashville - Speed Trap" (A&M) getting spilt play.KBOX flipped back to "Nashville." WHK likes "Speed Trap" ... otheradds are WNCR, KBFW, K000, WHO, WINN (speed), KENR, KWJJ.JOHNNY DUNCAN "Charley Is My Name" (Columbia): starting topick up.JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ "Can't Get My Baby Out Of My Mind"(Mercury): beginning to move ... adds at WMC, WPLO, KIKK.DEBRA BARBER "Help Yourself To Me" (RCA): good adds: KAYO,WPLO, WHO, KERE AND WINN.MOLLY BEE "Right or Left At Oak Street" (Granite): air playcontinues at KLAC, KCKC, KRAK, KWJJ, KSO, KRMD, WBAP, WHN,WMNI and WHK.STONEY EDWARDS "Clean Your Table" (Capitol) getting a good startwith adds at KBUL, KWJJ, WBAM, KRMD and KKYX.CONNIE EATON "Lonely Men,Lonely Women" (ABC): added KBUL,WEET ... very strong at KENR ... No. 18.

RECORDS TO WATCH:DON IMUS "Play That Country Jukebox" (RCA) good reaction fromthe market getting on this novelty record: KTCR, KWJJ, WISZ, KCEY,WMAQ.SHERI JARRELL "Little Pain Ain't No Big Thing" (Private Stock):adds at WMC, KTUF.MIKE LUNSFORD "While The Feelings Good" (Custo) added thisweek at WINN and WSLR.ANNE MURRAY "Uproar" (Capitol) added KCKC, KTUF, KERE.BARBARA MANDRELL "Wonder When Baby's Coming Home"(Columbia) more adds this week: KBUL, WONE, WNCR, WDEE.PAT ROBERTS "Airports and Planes" (ABC -DOT) getting more playthis week adds include: KWJJ, WBAM, KKYX and WISZ.B.J. THOMAS "Another Somebody ..." (ABC) getting some goodaction where played, added: WHK, WDEE.NANCY WAYNE "Cheating Was Last Thing" (20th) starting to pick up.adds: KLAC, KNEW, WHO, KCKC.PAULA WEBB "Please Mr. President" (20th): getting good pop playand reaction ... starting to get country airplay: KWJJ, WBAP.BUDDY ALAN "Chains" (Capitol) adds KAYO, WUBE, KTCR, KLAK,KS PO, KWJJ.

FRI DAY, JANUARY 31, 1975

R&R COUNTRY HOTLINE:(213) 466-0954 COUNTRY JIM DUNCAN/Editor

ABC Tapes 'InConcert' FromGrand Ole Opry

It took almost six hours, about4400 in the audience, a televisioncrew and six RCA recording actsto tape the first ABC "In Concert"TV show from Nashville's GrandOle Opry House last January 15.

The near -six hours reeled offquickly as Charley Pride hostedthe 90 -minute (when edited)show. It was the first time theshow has been done fromNashville and there was concernbeforehand about how much of anaudience would attend the freefilming and be willing to sitthrough set changes, re -takes,etc. The audience impressed theABC people and standing roomonly was available by showtime.They cheered, clapped andscreamed on cue -- as RCA'sRonnie Milsap, Jerry Reed, DollyParton, Gary Stewart, ChetAtkins and Charley Prideperformed before the cameras.Even through the re -takes, theyreacted as though it was the firsttime they were seeing thesequences.

The show was fantastic too! Itbegan with acting host CharleyPride doing "Kawliga" andseveral of his Other big hitsincluding "Kiss An Angel GoodMorning"and"Mississippi Cotton -Pi ckin' Delta Town." ThenRonnie Milsap sang "Legend InMy Time," "Please Don't Tell MeHow The Story Ends" and "PureLove." Then it was GaryStewart's turn. Stewart is a

member of Charley Pride'sPridesmen that has had severaltop ten records in the pastmonths. His "Drinkin' Thing"and "Out of Hand" hits added ahonky tonk flavor ... then DollyParton opened with "Jolene,"followed by "Coat of ManyColors," "Love Is Like AButterfly" and her newly -released RCA single "TheBargain Store." Interspersedwith the solo performances withCharley Pride introductions, a

duet featuring Ronnie and Dollyand a finale (which was filmedearly so each performer couldleave when his individualperformance was taped). By now,it's midnight and Chet Atkins didhis thing with Jerry Reed's band... then Reed, himself, joined Chetfor a number. At 12:45 am, JerryReed was introduced and led offwith his current hit "Let's SingOur Song" followed by hiscomposition of seven years ago,"A Thing Called Love" and hisfamous "Lord, Mr. Ford."

The evening closed out about 2a.m. The almost six hours of tapewill be edited down to 90 minutesfor its network airing on April11th. It was a typical night oftaping for the ABC crew. It wasnot a typical night of watching forthe audience. They had seen whatnetwork filming was all aboutfrom beginning to end ... and hadenjoyed every minute of it.

At top, Ronnie Milsap, Dolly Parton, and Charley Pride shake handswith the audience at "In Concert" Grand Ole Opry taping in Nashville.Above, Dolly Parton gets made up for her appearance on the show. Seestory at left.

Correspondents' Corner

DALE HANSEN

NM/BellinghamDale Hansen's radio career started in January of 1969 when he was a

junior in high school at K ENE in Toppenish, Washington. He wentthrough part-time to full-time in 1970 with a six -hour board shift andduties as chief engineer and Music Director until April of 1973. His wifeLinda and he moved to Eugene, Oregon where he did part-time then full-time all-night work at KEE D which was Top 40 at the time. In

September of 1973, he went to work at KASH, doing the all-night shift.Then on to KBFW in January of this year as Chief Music Person and

afternoon drive.

Bill Collie

INSIDEHVILLE

"Just about the best ofeverything!" Those were the kindof phrases to be heard last weekwhen the ABC-TV of thirty peoplewere here to tape four countryshows at the Opry House."Amazing!" said announcer DonBranker, "The reaction of thecrowd. And they stayed for fourhours of taping with the sameenthusiasm from start to finish."They were flabbergasted at whatthey saw when they got here.Most of them from New York andLA; the Opry House and it'sfacilities, the talent, (who BuddyRich last week said was "no -talent") and the audience, mostTV veterans agree are theimperative ingredients for a hitshow. Jorn Winther, producer,speaking in his very obviousSwedish accent, said "I haveworked in New York, Los Angelesand Europe ... all around theworld. I've never seen anything toequal the total elements of the TVfacility, the talent, and theaudience!" Associate producerWendy Riche (she booked thestars for the four shows) said,"Without knocking other forms ofmusic, there is nothing likecountry music. It's like a family

. really! The stars, the peoplebackstage; everything andeverybody helps everybody."

Buddy Rich was here for threedays (that's all the city could takeof his "love") at the Exit Inn withhis giant three piece band. Heranted about how bad country is,how ridiculous the tastes ofmillions of people who love it andhow dumb the people who buy itare. Then he expounded on whyhe hates the south because there'snot enough love. How did thatdrug arrest turn out in Australia,anybody know?

No, Paul McCartney and hisLinda will not move to Music City.They are set to buy a house inBeverly Hills ... Yes, GeorgeJones and Tammy are still "go"on the divorce. Tammy wasslated to host one of those "InConcert" concerts for ABC lastweek ... Allen Funt and his crazyCandid Camera crew came totown, snuck around, shot film,and snuck out. It'll be on herenext week.

Four Star Music boss JoeJohnson has pulled all hisindependent acts off Decca (scuseme, MCA) and signed them to hisnewly reactivated 4 Star Records.Jerry Wallace will go to MGM,and George Morgan, BonnieGuitar, Jimmy Elledge, BettyJean Robinson, Carl Belew, andMarie Owens are now on 4 StarRecords. If that sounds like a new

label, it isn't. May I name somesuperstars who started or pole-vaulted from 4 Star Records tothe major leagues in the Forties,Fifties, and even Sixties? Trythese: Webb Pierce, HankLocklin, Patsy Cline, EddieMiller, Slim Willet, Ferlin Husky(scuse me, Terry Preston)Jimmy Dean, Maddox Bros. &Rose, T. Texas Tyler and othersmy memory won't allowpresently. But you can tell by thisthat it's not a new label. If heutilizes it, Joe could start out witha classic catalogue of countrygold. Hey Joe, I can help!

BITS & PIECES:Whateverhappened to Warren Smith, whohad the top ten record of "Odds &Ends" (bits & pieces)?... Jack D.Johnson pulled himself awayfrom the day-to-day humdrum of"counting money" for his actsRonnie Milsap, Gary Stewart,Four Guys, and uh ... oh yes,Charley Pride, to take a holidayin Europe!... Ben Smathers, afunny guy whose Stoney MountainCloggers have been square danceclogging on the Opry (andeverywhere) for 17 years, wassurprised by outgoing GovernorWinfield Dunn with a specialcitation as "Dancemaster OfTennessee" ... someone on MusicRow is reportedly writing a book"What Makes Loretta Run?"

In the years I have done mysyndicated "Inside Nashville"radio show, I have met somegreat young radio people. One ofthem is special to me because, I

guess, he thought I was special.He's formerly of country KI KNradio in Corpus Christi, Texas;he's nowdoing afternoons at WHKin CleVeland. I know him asJohnny King. His Clevelandlisteners know him as "One -EyedJack." One of the things I

admired about him from thebeginning was the absence of anobvious complex about havingonly one good eye. Now John iscapitalizing on it, as Dickens hasalways said about his"shortcoming," "Fella looked atme out front awhile ago and said,'Humph! Looks like Johnny Cashafter taxes!' " Dave Donahue,congratulations! You know a

good man when you see ... uh hearhim!

Make a mental note: 1975 willbe the year country -Nashvillebecame a TV center (or tookgiant steps). Happy birthdayDolly, Slim Whitman, DougKershaw, Claude Gray andSpeedy West. Hope you all haveeverything you want, as long asit's good for you ... (you too, myfriend).

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1975 RADIO & RECORDS PAGE 31

COUNTRY..SINGLES

*BILL ANDERSON'Still Feel The Same (MCA)

1See NEW & ACTIVE

1-31

EDDIE ARNOLDButterfly (MGM)

27-16 VVWOK, No. 25 WUB ,No. 30 WONE, 35-25 KERE

I III12/6 12/13 12/20

*HOYT AXTONNashvlielSpeed Trap (A&M)

See NEW & ACTIVE

1-31

FRENCHIE BOURQUEBig Mamou (20th Century)

12/1 12/20 12/V

JIM ED BROWNDon, Jr. (RCA)

2113 12/2012/27

GLEN CAMPBELLIt's A Sin (Capitol)

12/6 7/11 12/2012/27

CLIFF COCHRANThe Love You Need (Enterprise)

34-27 WMC

12/213 12/27

COMPTON BROTHERSCat's In The Cradle (ABC/Dot)

I IlMore adds, KBUL, WJJEWHOO, KWJJ, WISZ

1-24

PAUL DAVISRide 'Em Cowboy (Bang)

,- And still another add WHK -

1/22 11/22 12/6 12/13 12/20 ivy

DON GIBSONI'll Sing For You (MGM)

I

More adds K000, KIK K, K BOX -

1-10

JACK GREENESawinill Depot (MCA)

Add KWJJ

LA COSTAHe Took Me For A Ride (Capitol)

1-24

FERLIN HUSKYChampagne Ladies (ABC1

12/20 12/27

MARY KAY JAMESThe Crossroads (Avco )

12/20 12/V

DAVE DUDLEY SONNY JAMESHow Come It Took So Long (UA) Little Bit South (Columbia)

Adds: KSO, KKYX, KFOX

1-24

AiJOHNNY DUNCANw Charley Is My Name (Columbia)

See NEW & ACTIVE

1-31

*STONEY EDWARDS'Clean Your Table (Capitol)

See N EW &A CTIVE

1-31

IIIIIT1 IIAdded WEEP, KIKK, WBAM,WEET, KBFW, debut 39 KAYO

1-17

SAMI JOBelieve Anything (MGM)

12/70 12/V

KRIS & RITALover Please (Monument)

MoreI l I

More adds KAYO, WUBEWSUN, WDEE, KIKK WISZ

1-24

See NEW & ACTIVE

1-31

BILLY LARKINLeave It Up To Me (Bryan)

More WAME, WISZ

1-17

LUMAN.BOB'Proud Of You Baby (Epic)

See NEW & ACTIVE

1-31

PAUL McCARTNEYSally G. (Apple)

11/22 11/29 12/6 12/13 12/20 12/V

O.B. McCLINTONYours & Mine (Enterprise)

12/6 2/13 17/2012/7/

MITCHELL & KELLYCan't Help Myself (GRT)

42-24 KBUL 39-30 WUNI

Graphs reflect audienceresponse computed by a

combination of sales,airplay and requests. Thelower the graph position theless airplay, sales andrequests being reported.The higher the position, themore active the record. Wefeel that a visual aidexplains the whole picturebetter than assigningarbitrary numbers in a

longer list.

*SAM NEELYI Fought The Law (A&M)

See NEW & ACTIVE

1-31

OLIVIA NEWTON -JOHNHave You Been Mellow (MCA)

I

Adds include: KCKC, WSUN, -K000, WBAM, pick: WDEE

1-24

KENNY O'DELLSoulful Woman (Capricorn)111111111

Adds WWOK, WAME, deb 33WUBE, ex -40 KBUL

1-10

DOLLY PARTONBargain Store (RCA)

KZON KRMD, debut 41 -WHK, debut 41 WHOO, 37-26

1-17

CARL PERKINSLow Class (Mercury)

Adds WDEE, WUNI

1-10 1-24

MELBA MONTGOMERY RAYai PRICEDon't Let Good Times (Elektra)" Roses & Love Songs (Myrrh)

IIIIIIIVery hot sales and requests...see NEW & ACTIVE

1 1 1 1 1

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1-24 1-31


4JEANNE PRUETT

Just Like Your Daddy (MCA)1 T -

dd KZON, 40-17 WWO K

1-10


See NEW & ACTIVE

1-24

BOBBY G. RICEWrite Me A Letter (GRT)

Add KIKK

1.10

MARTY ROBBINSLife (MCA)

More Adds: KNEW WDEE, -WHN, debut 34 KCKC, debut43 WHK

1 1 1 1 1 1

1-10

ak JOHNNY RODRIGUEZw Can't Get My Baby (Mercury)

SUNDAY SHARPEMr S( ngwri ter (U,1)

1-10

ABRIAN SHAWOne She's Cheating With (RCA)

See NEW & ACTIVE

1-31

SAMMI SMITHCover Me (Mega)

Add KBUL

1-24

BILLIE JO SPEARSBlanket On The Ground (UA)

See NEW & ACTIVE

1-24

JOE STAMPLEYPenny (ABC/Dot)

Add KZON, KLAC, WEET,35 26 WWOK, debut 41 WSUN

AkHANK THOMPSONw Mama Don't 'Low (ABCIDot )

11111-11Add KFOX, KIKK, WEET,2310 KLAK

MEL TILL'SBest Way / Know How (MGM)

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

IMore adds KCKC, WSUN, -K000' WBAM, KSON, KKYXKIKK, KWJJ, K FOX, WISZ

DIANA TRASK'Oh Boy (ABC/Dot)III!!! III

Both sides added WGN, debut 32_WWOK, deb 36 WSLR

1-17

TANYA TUCKERSouth is Going to Rise (Col)

Add KR AK 48-40 KLAC,30-24 WISZ debut 34 KLAK

12/13 12/20 12/V

MARY LOU TURNERCome On Home (MCA)

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Ads KFOX, WISZ

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JOHNNY RUSSELL RAY STEVENS JIM WEATHERLYHow Baby Build A Fire (RCA) Everybody Needs Rainbow. (Barn) 171 Still Love You ffluddah )

53-42 KLAC, 26-20 WPLO,33-21 WSLR

12/Z0 12/V

MARILYN SELLARSHe's Everywhere (Mega)

i I/22 I/29 12/6 2/13 12/20 17/V

CHIP TAYLORMe As 1 Am (Warners)

111111Added KCKC, K FOX,1 No. 27WUBE; debut 45 WONE

1-17

LITTLE DAVID WILKINSWhoever Turned You On (MCA )

1 1111 11 11More good adds WJJD, KLAC, -KBOX

1200 'WV

ddedAsterisk (* ) denotes records Most Added this week

KSO/DES MOINES

Bob Lumen'Jerry NaylorMolly BeeElvis PresleyRay Price'Dave DudleyHoyt Axton

KAYO/SEATTLERay Price'Kirs & RitaCharlie Rich'Johnny MullinsDebra BarberMelba Montgomery'Bill Anderson'Buddy AlanEarl Conley

WHK/CLEVELAND

B.J. ThomasLa CostaHoyt Axton (flip)Bob LumenPaul DavisAsleep At Wheel

KBUL/WICHITAHoyt AxtonCompton BrosMelba Montgomery'Sammi SmithBillie Jo SpearsBarbara MandrellStoney EdwardsConnie EatonCarl Smith

WEEP/PITTSBURGH

Linda RonstadtCharlie Rich'C.W. McCallConway TwittySonny James

KRAK/SACRAMENTONo Adds

KUZZ/BAKERSFIELD

Melba Montgomery".Porter WagonerBrian ShawBob Lumen"Ray Price'Nancy Wayne

KENR/HOUSTON

Bobby HardenDel ReevesBenny KubiakHoyt AxtonJohnny RodriguezElvis PresleyRay Price'Bob Luamn'Brian Shaw

WNCR/CLEVELAND

Osborne Bros.Charlie Rich'Barbara Mandrel'La CostaHoyt AxtonPaula WebbMelba Montgomery"

WSUN/ST. PETERSBURG

Ray Price'Olivia Newton -JohnMel Till'sCharlie Rich'Bob Lumen'Bill Anderson'Melba Montgomery'Compton Bros.Brian ShawKris & RitaJim WeatherlyKenny O'DellConnie EatonChip Taylor

WUNI/MOBILE

Carl PerkinsSam NeelyDavid Wills

WHOO/ORLANDO

Dolly PartonCompton Bros.Sam NeelyMelba Montgomery'

KHOS/TUCSON

Melba Montgomery'Ray PriceBrian ShawCharlie Rich'Barbara Mandrel'

WAME/CHARLETTEBilly LarkinRay Price"Elvis PresleyKenny O'DellBill Anderson'Melba Montgomery'Brian Shaw

K000/ OMAHADon GibsonOlivia Newton -JohnBobby WrightSandi BurnettMel TillisElvis PresleyHoyt AxtonJohnny DuncanBob Lumen"

KNEW/OAKLAND

Melba Montgomery'Marty RobbinsBillie Jo SpearsMitchell & KellyCharlie Rich'Waylon Jennings (flip)

KERE/DENVER

La CostaAnne MurrayKenny StarrBillie Jo SpearsDebra BarberBrian ShawJohnny Duncan

KCEY/MODESTO

Charlie Rich'Jeanne PruettOlivia Newton -JohnDon Imus

WHN/NEW YORK

Diana TraskRay PriceCharlie Rich'Marty RobbinsBudday AlanLois JohnsonWMC/MEMPHISRay Price'Johnny RodriguezBob Lumen'Billie Jo SpearsSheri JarrellKPOK/PORTLAND

Freddy FenderJim WeatherlyCharlie Daniels BandMelba Montgomery'Billie Jo SpearsSam Neeley

KWJJ/PORTLANDMel TillisCompton Bros.Stoney EdwardsBuddy AlanPaula WebbBill Anderson'Scotty ReedPat RobertsDon ImusBob Lumen'Hoyt AxtonJack GreeneMelba Montgomery"Gary SmithKBFW/BELLINGHAMKenny StarrSonny JamesMelba Montgomery'Hoyt AxtonCarl PerkinsWDEE/DETROITPick: Olivia Newton -JohnRay Price'Marty RobbinsElvis PresleyCharlie Rich'Bob Lumen'Barbara MandrellJohnny DuncanCarl PerkinsBillie Jo SpearsKris & RitaBill Anderson'B.J. ThomasCharlie Daniels Band

KTUF/PHOENIX

Ray Price'Elvis PresleyLa CostaSherri JarrellBill Anderson'Johnny DuncanAnne Murray

KIKK/HOUSTONLinda RonstadtJohnny RussellDon GibsonBobby G. RiceMarty RobbinsJeanne PruettSonny JamesHank ThompsonKris & RitaBillie Jo SpearsJohn DenverJim GlaserBob Luman'Johnny RodriguezRay Price'Mel Tillis

IGSPO/SPOKANE

Arlene HardenTeresa BrewerDavidRayPrice'

adyAlan

FreddyFenderWHO/DES,rieRich' INESCharlieHoyt A141011Brian ShawDebra Barber

.Bob Lumen'Nancy WayneGlennRayPrice'Barber

Bill Anderson'WPLO/ATLANTABob Lumen -Pick'Ray PriceDebra BarberJohnny RodriguezKLAC/LOS ANGELESNancy WayneLois JohnsonJoe StampleyLittle David Wilkins'Jim WeatherlyKLAK/DENVER,Pick: Ray Price'La CostaGlenn BarberBuddyBillAlanAnderson'Charlie Rich'KTCR/MINNEAPOLIS sBuddy AlanDon ImusBobby WrightCharlie Rich'SaJohnny

eeiynnDotGlenn Barber

BilllyAd Green

KCKC/SAN BERNARDINOSam NeelyRay PriceJimNan

NancyWeatherly

Elvis PresleyBill Anderson'Olivia Newton -JohnLa CostaAnne MurrayHoyt AxtonBob Luman'wL jWpainclia cLindseyLind

Bill Anderson"Billie Jo SpearsCompton Bros.Little David WilkinsLa CostaWONE/DAYTONCharlie Rich'Bill Anderson'Jesi ColterBob LumanBarbara Mandrel'Melba Montgomery'Ray Price'Billie Jo Spears'WUBE/CINCINNATIBuddy -AlanLinda RonstadtKris & RitaMelba Montgomery'Elvis PresleyRay Price'WWOK/MIAMIBill Anderson'BobRay

Price'RLrumer'

Kenny O'DellCharlie Rich'WISZ/BALTIMORE

SaPatrnRNoebeelrtys

MaMerly Louriliis TurnerCompton Bros.Billy LarkinKris & RitaDon Imus

KFOX/LONG BEACHMelody AllenMel TiflisDave budleyMelba Montgomery'Wilma BurgessHank Thompson

WEET/RICHMONDCal AmithJerry ReedConnie EatonSam Neely

KKYX/SAN ANTONIOStoney EdwardsBill Anderson'Mel TillisMelba Montgomery"Dave DudleyPat Roberts

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POPRadio & Records

POP/301 EAGLES/The Best Of My Love (Asylum)

LINDA RONSTADT/You're No Good (Capitol)3 CARPENTERS/Please Mr. Postman (A&M)4 FRANKIE VALLI/My Eyes Adored You (Private Stock)

LANA CANTRELL/Like A Sunday Morning (Polydor)6 PAUL McCARTNEY/Sally G (Apple)7 MAC DAVIS/Rock & Roll (Columbia)8 BARRY MANILOW/Mandy (Arista)

10 AL MARTINO/To The Door Of The Sun (Capitol)10 GLORIA GAYNOR/Never Can Say Goodbye (MGM)11 AMERICA/Lonely People (WB)(17) OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN/Have You Never Been Mellow (MCA)13 JOHN DENVER/Sweet Surrender (RCA)(ID SWEET SENSATION/Sad Sweet Dreamer (Pye)15 TONY ORLANDO & DAWN/Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman (Arista)16 CAROLE KING/Nightingale (Ode)

PHOEBE SNOW/Poetry Man (Shelter)(1) DAVID GATES/Never Let Her Go (Elektra)19 MARIA MULDAUR/I'm A Woman (Reprise)20 STARK & McBRIEN/Isn't It Lonely Together (RCA)go NEIL DIAMOND/I've Been This Way Before (Columbia)IS POLLY BROWN/Up In A Puff Of Smoke (GTO)23 NEIL SEDAKA/Laughter In The Rain (MCA)24 MAURREN McGOVERN/We May Never Love Like This Again (20th) CHARLIE ROSS/Thanks for the Smiles (Big Tree)26 JIM WEATHERLY/I'll Still Love You (Buddah)27 GILBERT O'SULLIVAN/You Are You (MAM)28 HELEN REDDY/Emotion (Capitol)29 STYLISTICS/Star On a TV Show (Avco)30 DAN FOGELBERG/Part Of The Plan (Epic)

Phoebe Snow: Her "Poetry Man" is one of the hottest records in this week's Pop M.

NEW &ACTIVEHELEN REDDY

Emotion (Capitol)Looking for gold again ... Add WSM, KGIL,

KULF, KIIS, WFIR, KDIG, KWAV, WTRX,KMEN, WLW, WTAE, WASH, KNOW, KEX,KMBZ, WREC, WIP.

ELVIS PRESLEYMy Boy (RCA)

Add WROC, KULF, KITS, KAKE, WASH, KMPC,WGAR, KNOW, KEX, KMBZ.


Picked nicely this week ... Add WFIR, WSB,WROC, WEEI-FM, WTAE, KVI, WEMP.

OTHER RADIO ACTIVITY:PAULA WEBB "Please Mr. President" (20th)

Giant action in Detroit from WXYZ plus therockers. New at WSM.

GILBERT O'SULLIVAN "You Are Me" (MAM)Add KULF, KRNT, WEEI-FM, KVI, KEX.

BILLY MAY "Front Page Rag" (MCA) Verygood phone action ... new on KWAV, WFIR...CHARLIE KULIS "Runaway" (Playboy),BLACKBYRDS "Walking In Rhythm" (Fantasy),BOBBY VINTON "Dick & Jane" (ABC), HOYTAXTON "Speed Trap" (A&M).

POP NOTESBY MIKE KASABO

A few months ago we reported super hot action on an album cutby Roger Whittaker. The track "The Last Farewell" was put onthe WSB PLAYLIST BY Music Director Gene Christie and gotimmediate phone reaction. Well, let's move about 200 milesNortheast of Atlanta to Nashville. WSM's Don Smity put therecord on two weeks ago and it is now the No. 1 most requestedsong they're playing! Action of that sort from two powerfulstations would make me take note if I were RCA.

The Paula Webb record "Please Mr. President" which is an outand out smash in Detroit is now spreading to Rochester viaWROC.

The "B" side of Hoyt Axton's latest single is getting very goodreaction at WLW, KWAV, and KNBR. It's called "Speed Trap"and is from his up -coming album which is still un-titled.

The Mickey Mouse Club, which was baby-sitter to many of usduring the 50's, is now being reactivated nationally throughsyndication. Ron Fell and LaVerne Drake at KNBR are ready tocapitalize on it. They dusted off Julie London's version of "TheMickey Mouse Club March" which was, originally on Liberty andput it on the playlist. Reaction has been strong enough for Ron tomake a suggestion that Liberty might consider re -issuing theside.

Several album cuts mentioned to us by our reporters as beingstrong programming items: "One Day In Your Life" MichaelJackson, "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome" BobDylan .. . many stations like this one, Other Dylan cuts:"Tangled Up In Blue," "You're A Big Girl Now," "Lily,Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts" ... length (8:50) restrictsthis from play at tightly run Pop stations but most everyone lovesIt.

From the Mac Davis album . . . "I Still Love," "Boogie WoogieMama," "Magic Mystery."

"Far East Man" George Harrison, "It's A Miracle" BarryManilow . .. look for a single on this shortly. "Sad Eyes,""Standing On The Inside" and "The Immigrant" Neil Sedaka."Don't Be Cruel" Billy Swan, "Crazy" Brenda Patterson. "She'sLow Clouds" Harriet Schock, "Mhairu" Galagher & Lyle.

Records getting good phone response, outside of the obviousare: "I Care" Tom T. Hall, "Thanks For The Smiles" CharlieRoss, "Front Page Rag" Billy May, "Another Somebody DoneSomebody Wrong Song" B.J. Thomas, "Hot Souse" Jan Davis,"He's Everywhere" Marilyn Sellars, "Part Of The Plan" DanFogelberg, "LovIn' You" Minnie Riperton.

SPECIAL NOTE: I'm happy to report that everyone I talked tothis week regarding the possibility of a mid -week musicconference became even more excited than I had expected. Nowthat we have our line-up of participants ready, I will check Intothe financial aspects of this "conference call" with the telephonecompany. I hope we can swing it.


Graphs reflect audienceresponse computed by acombination of sales,airplay and requests. Thelower the graph position theless airplay, sales andrequests being reported.The higher the position, themore active the record. Wefeel that a visual aidexplains the whole picturebetter than assigningarbitrary numbers in a

longer list.new entries

POPSINGLES

00%

75%

50%

25%

ANKA & COATESOne Man Woman (UA)

100%

75%

50%

25%

DOOBIE BROTHERSBlack Water (WB)11111

7-- Slippedstill

from chart, sales &strong.

play - - Reporting hot in several markets. -

1-10

TOM JONESPledging My Love (Parrot)

75%

50%

25%

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100%

75%

50%

25

AWB AKELO MARGIE .JOSEPHPick Up The Pieces (Atlantic) IDWords (Atlantic)wCan't Get It Out Of My Head (UA )

00%

75%

50%

25 v«,

Crossing from Rock to Pop.100%

75%

50%

25

1-10

di HOYT AXTONSpeed Trap (A&M)

100%

75%

50%

25%

I 1 1 1I I** I IB side stirring plenty of atten-tion.

100%

75%

50%

25%

LOGGINS & MESSINAChanges (Columbia)

Cl mb ng

1-17

LOVE UNLIMITEDI Belong To You (20th)

100%

75%

50%

25%.

1-24

*JOHNNY MATHIS"Sail On White Moon (Columbia)

1

75

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11.

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1-31

JOSE FELICIANOChico & The Man (RCA)

.KRIS00%

75%

50%

255

1-31

& RITALover Please (Monument)

100%

75%

50%

1-31

BILLY MAYFront Page Rag (MCA)

OM.

75%

50%

I 1 I 1 1Good spins.

Another healthy week.

255

di'Walking

100%

75%

50%

25%

1-31

BLACKBYRDSIn Rhythm (Fantasy)

100%

75%

50%

1-10

DICK FELLERCry For Lori (Elektra)

*CHARLIE'Runaway

00%

75%

50%

25

1-31

KULIS(Playboy)

00%

75%

50%

zsvi

1-24

JONI MITCHELLBig Yello Taxi (Asylum)

--Stations reportingI

good calls.T

Shannon smash revived. - beim- addedDel Still

100%

1-31

JAN DAVISHot Sause (Ran wood )

00%

ELTON JOHNLucy In The Sky (MCA)

100%

1-31

JOHN LENNONNo. 9 Dream (Apple)

100%

1-10

HUGOGodfather

MONTENEGROII (RCA)

11-1111- Dropped from Pop/30 but still - Heading

T 1

for Pop/30.T

75%great Play. 75% 75%

75%

arra

50% 50%50%

25%25525%

1-101-31 1-101-10

SAMMY DAVISChico & The Man (MGM)

00%

JACK JONESDoesn't Live Here Anymore (RCA)

00%

LETTERMENEastward (Capitol)

100%

ANNE MURRAYDaytripper (Capitol)

100%

SalesI I

in California strong. air support Looks solid.Needs

75%75%

75% 75%

50% 50%50%50%

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SAM NEELYI Fought The Law (A&M)

MARILYN SELLARSHe's Everywhere (Mega)

PAULA WEBB°Please Mr. President (20th)

AL WILSONWon't Last Day -Be The One (Arista)

-

100%

75%

50%

Add KDIG, KWAV.

1-24

100%

75%

50%

25%

Slight upward movement.

12/13 12/20 12/27

100%

75%

50%

25%

1-10

OHTA SAN SPLINTEROne Day Of Love (A&M) Costafine Town (Dark Horse)

Holding W Fl L.100%

Still growing.

75%

50%

25%

12/20

PRELUDE CAT STEVENSFly (Island) Ready (A&M)

100%

About even.

100%

75%

50%

25'Y

75%

50%

25%

1-17

Aiw100%

75%

50%

25%/

100%

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25%

ELVISMy

100%t

75%

50%

25%

100%

75%

50%

25%

PRESLEYBoy (RCA)

1/22 11/29 12/6 12/13 12/20

RAY STEVENSEverybody Needs Rainbow (Bamaby)

Terrific response everywhere.

1-31

BILLY PRESTONYou Are So Beautiful (A&M)

12/6 12/13 12/20

BARBRA STREISANDGuava Jelly (Columbia)

so far.Slow

12/20

MINNIE RIPERTONLovin' You (Epic)

12/20

B.J. THOMAS '

Another Somebody... (ABC)100%

75%

50%

25%

1-10

Smokin' in several a reas.100%

Really looks strong.

75%

50%


100%

75%

50%

25%

-- Big adds -check New & Act ye.

1-24

1-24

ANDY WILLIAMSLove Said Goodbye (Columbia)

100%

75%

50%

25%

1.10

100%

75%

50%

25%

- Super hot at WROV. Add WSM.-100%

75%

50%

25%

2/13 12/20

addedWEEI FM-BOSTON

Charlie RichGilbert O'SullivanCharlie RossMac DavisHOTMinner RipertonSweet Sensation

WASH-WASHINGTON

ElvisHelen ReddyCharlie RossStylisticsB.J. ThomasHOTPhoebe SnowDavid GatesAl MartinoDan Fogelberg

KRNT-DES MOINES

Gilbert O'SullivanPhoebe SnowNeil DiamondJoni MitchellHagersHOTEagles

KNBR-SAN FRANCISCODino & SembelloGene McDanielsAl MartinoSam ParsonsMiss AbramsLove Unlimited OrcSeverin BrowneBobby ShermanCharlie Kul isPHONESJim StaffordJulie London (see Notes)

WCBM-BALTIMORE

Al MartinoOlivia Newton -JohnPhoebe Snow

WTRX-FLINT

Barbra StreisandMaureen McGovernOhta SanOlivia Newton -JohnSam NeelyJim WeatherlyStylisticsCrystal GayleHelen Reddy

WTAE-PITTSBURGH

Helen ReddyKris & RitaBarry RichardsCharlie Rich

KVI-SEATTLENeil DiamondCharlie RichGilbert O'Sullivan

K101 -SAN FRANCISCOSammy JohnsCharlie RossSugarloafStark & McBrien

WFIR-ROANOKEHelen ReddyJoni MitchellBilly MayLoggins & MessinaCharlie RichPhoebe Snow

WSB-ATLANTACharlie RichCarole KingJim WeatherlyPat Roberts

WGAN-PORTLANDLettermenNeil DiamondJim WeatherlyMaureen McGovern

KMEN-SAN BERNARDINO

StylisticsPhoebe SnowAl MartinoHelen ReddyJim CapaldiHOTJan DavisPolly Brown

WCAR-DETROIT

Gloria GaynorPhoebe SnowJohn Lennon

WSM-NASHVILLEPaula WebbHelen ReddyPHONESRoger Whittaker (super)Bobby Vinton

KGIL-SAN FERNANDOOlivia Newton -JohnHelen ReddySweet SensationSplinterJoni Mitchell

WXYZ-DETROITEaglesCarol Douglas

KULF-HOUSTON

Neil DiamondHelen ReddyElvisGilbert O'SullivanStylisticsPHONESPhoebe SnowOlivia Newton -JohnB.J. Thomas

KIIS-LOS ANGELESMinnie RipertonJim WeatherlyHelen ReddyElvisMaureen McGovernCharlie KulisKris & RitaBlackbyrds

WROC-ROCHESTER

Major HarrisDan FogelbergCharlie RichPeter AllenElvisHOTFrankie ValliPaula Webb

WGR-BUFFALOCarole KingAl Martino

WIP-PHILADELPHIADan FogelbergHelen ReddyLalo SchifrinPolly BrownKris & RitaPHONESLana Cantrell

KDIG-SAN DIEGOPhoebe SnowMinner RipertonBobby VintonOlivia Newton -JohnSam NeelyHelen ReddyJohn Lennon

KAKE-WICHITAElvisPhoebe SnowDoobio BrosCarol Douglas

WGAR-CLEVELANDAl MartinoPolly BrownElvisOlivia Newton -John

KEX-PORTLAND

Gilbert O'SullivanStylisticsNeil DiamondElvisKris & RitaHelen ReddyPHONESEaglesCharlie RossBilly May

KWAV-MONTEREYLettermenHelen ReddyHoyt Axton (Trap)Sam NeelyRebecca LynnBilly MayHOTOlivia Newton -John

KMBZ-KANSAS CITYELODan FogelbergTo T. Hall (both)erviSeverin BrowneHelen ReddyDave LogginsBarbara Mandrell

UPC-LOS ANGELESiTues CorpElvisDavid GatesSweet SensationPolly BrownPHONESCarpentersLinda RonstadtCarl DouglasElton JohnAl Martino

WLW-CINCINNATI

Charlie RossJohn LennonNeil DiamondHoyt Axton (Trap)Rob ReiderHelen ReddyDave RiordanBobby BarePHONESTom T. Hall

WREC-- MEMPHIS

Gene PageNaturalsAl WilsonCharlie FlossHelen ReddyRonnie DysonPHONESPlivia Newton -JohnFrankie Valli

WNEU-WHEELING

David GatesAl Martino

WEMP-MILWAUKEE

Charlie RichFreddy FenderJohnny MathisLettermenKris & RitaTokensJaap DekkarNite Only:ElvisHelen ReddyLinda Ronstadt

WGN-CHICAGO

Neil Diamond

ICH OW- DENV ER

ElvisHelen ReddyPhoebe SnowBuddy CauseyHOTB.J. Thomas

Radio Sr.Records

TREND:

1/10 1/17 1/24

1 1 1 4) BARRY MANILOW/Mandy (Arista)3 2 2 2 CARPENTERS/Please Mr. Postman (A&M)19 7 5 0 LINDA RONSTADT/You're No Good (Capitol)10 5 4 0 EAGLES/Best Of My Love (Asylum)15 8 6 0 AVERAGE WHITE BAND/Pick Up The Pieces (Atlantic)2 3 3 6 ELTON JOHN/Lucy In The Sky With Diathonds (MCA)21 13 7 Q DOOBIE BROTHERS/Black Water (WB)4 4 8 8 NEIL SEDAKA/Laughter In The Rain (Rocket)18 16 10 9 GRAND FUNK/Some Kind Of Wonderful (Capitol)24 21 12 m OHIO PLAYERS/Fire (Mercury)20 20 22 49 CAROL DOUGLAS/Doctor's Orders (Midland)30 22 20 AMERICA/Lonely People (WB)29 25 19 ""STYX/Lady (Wooden Nickel)5 6 9 14 CARL DOUGLAS/Kung Fu Fighting (20th Century)11 10 11 IS STEVIE WONDER/Boogie On Reggae Woman (Tamla)22 18 13 16 DONNY & MARIE OSMOND/Morning Side of the Mountain (MGM)

34 27 4)-.FRANKIE VALLI/My Eyes Adored You (PS)16 15 14 18 ANKA/COATES/One Man Woman, One Woman Man (UA)6 11 18 19 HARRY CHAPIN/Cat's In The Cradle (Elektra)9 14 15 20 THREE DEGREES/When Will I See You Again (Phy/Int)

35 9 OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN/Have You Never Been Mellow (MCA)29 fb BACHMAN-TURNER/Roll On Down the Highway (Mercury)

12 17 23 23 GLORIA GAYNOR/Never Can Say Goodbye (MGM)27 24 24 24 DISCO TEX & THE SEX-O-LETTES/Get Dancin' (Chelsea)8 12 16 25 HELEN REDDY/Angie Baby (Capitol)

30 LABELLE/Lady-Marmalade (Epic)13 19 21 27 JETHRO TULL/Bungle In The Jungle (Chrysalis)38 33 31 28 JOHN DENVER/Sweet Surrender (RCA)7 9 17 29 BARRY WHITE/You're the First, Last (20th Century)14 23 25 30 BILLY SWAN/I Can Help (Monument)

36 33 31 MARIA MULDAUR/I'm a Woman (Reprise)26 26 26 32 MCCARTNEY & WINGS/Sally G (Apple)28 29 28 33 LYNYRD SKYNYRD/Free Bird (MCA)

34 SUGARLOAF/Don't Call Us, We'll Call You (Claridge)39 36 35 JOHN LENNON/No. 9 Dream (Apple)

37 36 ELO/Can't Get It Out Of My Head (UA)37 CHARLIE DANIELS/The South's Gonna Do It (Kama Sutra)

40 37 38 ORLANDO & DAWN/Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman (Arista)39 POLLY BROWN/Up In a Puff of Smoke (GTO)

37 31 39 40 MAC DAVIS/Rock 'N Roll (Columbia)

THE INDUSTRY'S NEWSPAPER

January 31, 1975

National RequestTabulation

1. DOOBIE BROTHERS2. BARRY MANI LOW3. CARPENTERS4. STYX5. CARL DOUGLAS

6. AWB7. EAGLES8. OHIO PLAYERS9. OLIVIA

10. FRANKIE VALLI

OTHER STRONG ACTION:

JETHRO TULLGRAND FUNKDONNY & MARIEHARRY CHAPINJETHRO TULLELTON JOHN

NEW &ACTIVE71w Ail/owing records are listed in order by their activity

JOE COCKER"You Are So Beautiful" (A&M)

33 percent of our reporters are on it. 1-1 KEEL, 10-10 WYSL, debut 21WNOE, 15-13 WLAC, add WQXI, add KKDJ, 14-18 WGCL, 30-19 WAKY,18-13 KHJ and many more.

ELVIS"My Boy" (RCA)

The man is still happening, debut 26 WSAI, add WAVZ, 26-23 WRKO,add WLEE, 39-27 WBBQ, add Z93, 36-29 WRIE, on WCAO and manymore.

JACKSON FIVE"I Am Love" (Motown)

Big week, add WCFL, WKLO playing the long version, on KING, addWIBG, on WQXI nites, add WCAO, 30-26 WZUU, 29-24 Y100 and manymore stations.

RINGO STARR"No No Song" (Apple)

Most stations playing this side, a few on both. Add K100, WSAI,26-18 KKDJ, add WBBF, debut 27 KJRB, add KING, on WOO,many many more. This should become a solid hit.

KIMN,and so

CHARLIE DANIELS "The South's Gonna Do It" (Kama Sutra)continues to show impressive growth, 7-3 WERC, 31-25 WRFC, debut 10WLAC, 19-17 WKLO, add WQXI, 30-24 WROV, on WBGN at 28, 19-14WMAK, debut 40 WCFL, 15-11 KJOY, 15-8 WBBQ, add WSGA, addWHBQ and several more.SHIRLEY & COMPANY "Shame Shame" (Vibration) some stockproblems reported, but the record looks good. Add WFIL, add WMAKnites, 19-15 KJOY, add WAKY, 24-23 KF RC, add WRKO, 24-22 KCBQ, onWLE E, add KEEL, add WYSL, 16-15 WMYQ, on Z93, 30-27 WIF IB.T. EXPRESS "Express" (Scepter) add WAVZ at 30, add Z93 at 20, 30-21 KIOA, debut 35 WBBQ, add WGH, on KEZY, add WQXI nites, addWCAO, add KA F Y, 12.2 at 99X, severa I others reporting.AL MARTINO "Door Of The Sun" (Capitol) 35-29 KEEL, on WCAO,debuty 26 WYRE, 21-13 WI F I, add WVLK, 20-17 WFIL, debut 29 WZUU,add WGNG, debut 37 WCFL, add WRIE, 18-17 WIBG, 7-4 WPOP, addWMAK, on WGH, add KKAM, on WLEE.FANNY "Butter Boy" (Casablanca) looks good, with WPEZ reportingtop requests. 8-5 at 13Q, 16-9 at U100, 25-20 WYRE, 24-16 WPEZ, 20 17WERC, 26-18 WRFC, 26-23 WKLO, debut 34 KEEL, 24-23 K 10A, 33-25WACI, 24-20 WNCI, add WJDX, 30-25 KUPD, add WGOW, add WAYS.B.J. THOMAS "Another Somebody" (ABC) strong out of the boxaction, add WAVZ, KRSP, KEEL, WHBQ, WBBQ, WSAR, on WJDX,debut 30 WMAK, on WNCI, add KIMN,KSLY, KCPX.HOT CHOCOLATE "Emma" ( Big Tree) on WAKY, add WYSL, debut30 WKBW, 37-35 WCFL, add WEAM, add WYRE, 30-26 WOKY, debut 35KEEL, on WROV, add WBBF, debut 30 WLPL, 27-21 at 13Q, add WACI.OZARK MNT DAREDEVILS "Jackie Blue" (A&M) debut 32 KEEL,add KDON, 29-21 KJOY, on WEED, on WAC I, add 0100, add KKAM, 30-22 KKLS, on KEZY, add WNCI, debut 28 KKXL, 31-25 KIMN, add WLPL.DIAMOND REO "Ain't That Peculiar" (Big Tree) 12-12 at 13Q, 19-17WDXR, on WORG, 28-27 WCAO, debut 42 WNCI, debut 25 WYRE, 13-12WPEZ, 26-17 WGCL, add KIMN, add WROV, add WEED, on WKLO.SWEET SENSATIONS "Sad Sweet Dreamer" (Pye) on KKXL,WPOP, add KIOA, add WBBQ, add WSAI, debut 32 KDON, add WIBG_JIM WEATHERLY "I'll Still Love You" (Buddah) on WLAC, 18-18WJDX, on WKLO, debut 29 WSAR, on WNCI, add WROK, add WBBQ, onWBGN, 24-23 WZUU, on WSAI, 40-38 WCFLLOGGINS & MESSINA "Changes" (Columbia) note that audience maybe confused between Bowie and this single with titles being the same.Some reports of stores with wrong copies in of what stations are reallyplaying. 31-27 KFMG, debut 37 KUPD, 30-24 WSAR, add WLPL, 25-21WNCI, add WACI, on WISM, add WCAO, 32-28 KTLK, on KJOY.HELEN R EDDY "Emotion" (Capitol) a bit too early for most stationsto be adding this super love song. Most are still heavily playing AngieBaby. 36-31 WRFC, on WSAI, add KIOA, 29-26 WSGA, add WJDX, onWEED, add KJ R B, add WNCI, 39-34 WRIE, on WACI.PAULA WEBB "Please Mr. President" (20th) 30-20 at 13Q, 31.20WZUU, add 25 WPEZ, add WE E0, add WJDX, 28-14 CKLW, add WNOE,WYRE, add WROK.

STARK & MCBRIEN "Isn't It Lonely" (RCA) debut 37 KIMN, addWROV, 24-22 KJRB, on WBGN, 17.13 WJDX, add WBBQ, 29-25 KCPX, onWSAR, add KDZA.JIMMY CASTOR "Bertha Butt Boogie" (Atlantic) on WQAM, addKJRB, KTLK, add WSGA, 15-13 at Y100, 2-2 WMYQ, on KSJO, addWDRQ, add WRC. Had a super week.MINNIE RIPPERTON "Lovin You" (Epic) super action 14-8 WDRQ,26-18 WI F I, debut 18 at 99X, on WSAI, debut 24 WIBG, debut 20 WFIL,WJON, add WVLK.

OTHERS GETTING ACTION: "Hello People" 14-13 KCPX, 27-21KKDJ, 22-16 KUPD, and much more. "George McCrae" 30-25 at Y100,25-22 WSGA, add WDRQ. The new "Blue Swede" add KIMN, KCPX,KING, KRSP, sounds good. "Atl Ryh Sect" 23-19 WRFC, add WBBQ, onWMAK and WBGN. New "Yes" single "Soon" add KSTP, add WVOV,KUPD, On U100. "Flash Cadillac" on WKLO, KUPD, WBBQ, nites atKEEL. "Al Downing" broke out this week, add WERC, KEEL, WQXI,WMAK, WSAR, WRFC. "Neil Diamond" 35-33 WBBQ, add KEEL,KUPD, WJON, KTLK, WNCI on add WR IE. "Jim Stafford" still alive onWCFL, WRIE, WNCI, add KAFY and more.

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