records promotion musicVolume 3, No. 12

Few Canadian LPartists can boast asuccessful Canadianproduced album. Malkaand Joso have accom-plished just this withtheir first Capitol re-lease.

Malka (Himel) wasborn in Israel, the daugh-ter of a cantor. She be-came a part of the per-forming arts while veryyoung when she starredin Israel's famous chil-dren's theatre. She per-formed as a dancer atthe renowned Dalia

Festival and as an actress in "The Vill-age Tale" one of the first Israeli movies.It was just a matter of time after her arri-val in Canada before she was knowncoast to coast, via CBC-TV, as a TVpanelist, dancer and singer. She is alsowell known for her stage appearances.Joso (Spralja) comes from the Dalmatiancoast where some of the worlds best fish-ermen are bred but because of the encour-agement of a parish priest he pursued acareer in singing. Performing in the ca-thedrals and theatres of Dalmatia, Josobecame so well known that he was award-ed a government scholarship to study atthe Zagreb Conservatory, where he studiedunder Europe's leading coaches. He be-came a by -word of European TV and amember of the Yugoslavia Sextette and asa leading performer on the operetta stage,became one of Yugoslavia's leading per-sonalties.

A meeting of these two took place,by accident in an "After-hours" Torontocoffee house where Joso was performing.They began to swap songs and one nightperfotmed as a duo. The audience reactionwas astonishing. Toronto audiences hadnever before been treated to so vast arepertoire of folk masterpieces and eachperformed beautifully in the language oforigin.

This indeed was not an act to restrictto the folk buffs alone. Supper clubs, con-cert halls, college campuses, radio andTV appearances were next. They fast be-came known from coast to coast and asMarvin Schiff of the Toronto Globe andMail put it, "Malka and Joso as hand-some a duo as ever graced a stage, gen-erate excitement with their multi -languagerepertoire..."

The year 1965 has turned out to beone of the most exciting for this talentedtwosome. They completed a tour of 30cities including Canada and the US. Atcompletion of this exhaustive 30 concerttour it was evident to the people at Capi-tol (through sales) that Malka & Joso hadbeen accepted nationally.

Because of a great demand for theiralbum, outside of Canada, plans arebeing worked out for an international re-lease. Another session has already been

Week of May 17th, 1965

MALKA AND JOSO

completed by Capitol to be released short-ly.

Malka & Joso are now a very importantpart of the music scene in Canada. It is

indeed gratifying and encouraging to havetwo such talented people adopt Canada astheir homeland.

NEXT WEEK - RAY GRIEF

Calgary: Mel Shaw sendsw news that Alberta's first

Discotheque is shapingup to be the most popularnice -spot in Calgary. TheRE popular Stampeders lookHthingsafterthweitmhumsuics7c1 foer

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frug, swim and watusiWednesday through Sun-day. Three pop musictours have made thescene in Calgary and allseen to be drawing good\ crowds. Terry Stafford isheadlining one of theshows with a good com-

plement of Canadian talent including WesDakus, Barry Allan and The Rebels.DianneJames,Barry Ennis and The Keymen makeup the second show. The third show ismade up of J. Frank Wilson and a Calgarygroup The Skeptics. This year the CalgaryStampede will feature a teen section, whichwill give some of the local groups a chanceto show off their talent. Ready to kick offthis show are The Stampeders and S'Quires.Calgary TV viewers have been treated toa variety of guests on the CHCT "Guysand Dolls" show. Johnny Harlow was inter-viewed on the success of his new Arc out-ing. Bob Martin, promotion manager forColumbia records made an appearance tout-ing the new Gene Pitney LP as well asother Columbia artists. Industry visitors tothe foothills city have been making a pointof catching the exciting Stampeders inaction.

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One of the big thrills for the Rolling Stoneswhen they appeared in Toronto was the pre-sentation of the above charcoal drawing bythe artist, Roger Piotrow of 15 Minto St.,Coll ingwood, Ontario.

Ottawa: The Swing Set sends newsthat Bobby Newman's group The Casualshave been playing to SRO crowds at theInterprovincial Hotel. Bob has a newsingle "Baby's Gone" being readied forrelease.

St. Catharines: Norm Prowe Enter-prises is a good name to remember if yourinterested in booking in the Niagara penin-sula. He specializes in rock and countrygroups. Hot groups ready to go on the rockside are The Dynamics and B.C.'s Cave-men. Address all enquiries to Box 92, St.Davids, Ontario.2

The teen scene seems to be very im-portant in the St. Catharines area. TheCastle is happening big and coming upis The Lincoln Curling Club with JoeyReynolds of WKBW hosting the show. Head-lining the Reynolds gig will be The BigTown Boys with the Link Rays as houseband.

Toronto: The Canadian TelevisionCommercials Festival, co -sponsored bythe Radio and Television Executives Cluband the Television Bureau of Canada Inc.,will be held at Ryerson Polytechnical In-stitute on Thursday May 13, 1965. Therewill be an afternoon session at 2.30 p.m.with the Awards Dinner at 6.15 p.m. Thisyear there are three times as many entriesas last year. 278 English and 58 French.

Eaton's Of Canada "Salute To Youth"was a giant success due to the combinedefforts of Joey-Cee, Ron Scribner and FredWhite. The six day program, emceed byJoey-Cee included live performances byRonnie Hawkins, Jon and Lee and theCheckmates. Autograph sessions werearranged for Shirley Matthews, DavidClayton Thomas, The Allan Sisters, JackLondon, The Big Town Boys, Rita Curtisand many others. CHUM covered the eventslive each afternoon.

Hallmark Studios have moved fromtheir Grenville location and will now haveall their offices and studios under one roofat 22 Sackville St.

The Sparrows have flown the tower ofLondon. Jack London will now go it aloneas will his group The Sparrows. TheirCapitol LP is fast becoming a big sellerfrom coast to coast.

Teens Funarama prexy Bill Anthonyand his cohorts Pat Lyons and Dave Cour-tin arranged a reception for the industryfolks to get acquainted with the newest inteen nite-clubs. The scene was a packedreception hosted by Teens Funarama prexyBill Anthony and his cohorts, Pat Lyonsand Dave Courtin. The record industry waswell represented by execs from major aswell as many of the smaller labels. It wasencouraging to see both top forty stationsin attendance as well as the local press.The list of those invited was well calcu-lated to keep everyone in suspense. Repre-sentatives from the local and metro govern-ment were in attendance as well as spokes-men for the Metro Police Department. Any-one who was anyone and particularly thoseinterested in the welfare of the local youthwere in attendance.

Duff Roman, one of the contributingproducers of the hot new label Red Leaf,will be leaving shortly on a coast to coasttour of radio stations, booking agencies,distributors and newspaper people. This isa sign that our industry is now beginning toshape up. This is probably the first time afreelance producer has had anything worth-while to tout across the nation. Duff'sbiggest success story is the acceptance ofDavid Clayton Thomas as an artist notonly in his own country but also in theUS. "Walk That Walk" by David ClaytonThomas was the first of many good produc-tions to come out of the Roman camp. "Ne-ver Send You Flowers" by the Paupers isstill a popular item across the country al-though their follow-up "If I Told My Baby"

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has just been released and received thenod from those in the know. Duff will alsohave a release by his newest discoveryBobby Vann.

Rick Hughes has a gimmick. He cansing. A new phrase was coined when a TVproducer recently gave Rick a 6 bar audi-tion. He called it "instant booking". Watchfor this fresh new talent to set the countryon its ear.

Fred White, the personable young im-age builder, subject of a front page inRPM some weeks back, now boasts clien-tele in several other provinces and the US.

Lakehead: Latest from Tartan comesthe new Bobby Curtola single "Welkin' WithMy Angel". With Bobby's immense popu-larity across the country this too is an al-most certainty to follow his other hits,right up the charts.

Record Jottings: The feature album ofthe month for RCA Victor is "The Roar OfThe Greasepaint" which is having phenomi-nal sales particularly in Toronto were theshow is playing to capacity audiences atthe O'Keefe Centre despite the usual de-structive reviews of the critics from hog -town. The show is a gas and the LP gas-ier. Victor has to be the company of theyear for original cast and film track LP's."Mary Poppins" is still top of the heapand shaping up to be a good contendercomes "Sound Of Music". The Bi-bi townof Montreal will have an interesting monthfor Victor, saleswise, with a few of theirbig guns making appearances. LeontynePrice first in with Van Cliburn followingthen Anka and Belafonte. The new LorneGreen single "An 01' Tin Cup" got a na-tional plug when Lorne treated his Pon -derosa fans by singing the new hit on hisNBC-TV special (May 2). J.B. and ThePlayboys have released another single toadd to their list of hits. "Love, Happi-ness and Sweet You" comes on the sceneat the most opportune time. The boys havebeen appearing throughout Quebec andUpper Canada and have stole the showwherever they have appeared. The onlygroup not affected by J.B. and The Play-boys were The Rolling Stones. But then,even Ed Sullivan couldn't upstage this act.The title is too long but it's a hit and it'sdone by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dykeand the flip side is "Spoonful Of Sugar".

They have five months to wait butthey're lining up to buy tickets for theBeatles' appearance at Maple Leaf Gar-dens in August. Record sales are stillflourishing for this group ("Ticket ToRide")as well as for other English groups.The Yardbirds have come up with whatlooks like a top chart contender in "ForYour Love". Chad & Jeremy's latest forCapitol "What Do You Want With Me" hasestablished itself as headed for the topten. Matt Munro's newest "Without You" issoon to take its place on many playlistsas well as "You Turn Me On" by IanWhitcomb. From the Canadian end of Capi-tol comes "Small Town Girl" by theStaccatos, a strong strong entry. "OverThe Rainbow" by Billy Thorpe wouldappear to be destined for top listings. ThisAustralian entry has already received thenod from the US trades as well as RPM.

The Seekers first album comes toCanada on the Melbourne label distributedby London. This LP has already beenpicked by the US trades. Looks like Aus-tralia could beat Canada to the punch andbe the next nation to make the INTER-NATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH. Too Bad!

Editorial

Viewpoint

Several weeks ago your editor was made aware of a very disturbing borderincident involving Canadian musicians and American Immigration officers.

A resulting editorial was suppressed (by those who shall remainnameless). Apparently this border clash was just the beginning. Re-cent developments have therefore prompted the re -instatement of thateditorial which follows.

The American government has been successful in freezing Ameri-can earned Beatle money and may have gone a step further in attempt-ting to make the US inaccessible to Canadian artists and musicians.A recent border incident, smacking of Anti-Canadianism, has beenbrought to the attention of RPM. A well known Toronto recording artistand his group were slated to appear as guests on a US TV show on thestrength of the popularity of their record in Canada and the US. Arrivingat the border crossing piont a few hours before show time they were re-portedly manhandled by American Immigration officers, hustled into aroom, fingerprinted, photographed and under police escort, returned tothe Canadian side. One of these officials apparently advised this group

that the US was going to put a stop to foreign entertainers coming into the country andthey weren't going to have another English episode. Your editor contacted the AmericanConsulate officers in Toronto. A gentleman, identifying himself as R.C. Larkin advisedthat this wasn't his concern nor that of his department. His remarks appeared to indicatethat he wasn't interested, whatsoever, in any injustices done to Canadians by the govern-ment he represented.

If this terrible state of affairs exists with a country dominating the Canadian musicindustry by a walloping 92%, it is indeed a very cold and callous attitude. We hesitateto believe that the peaceful co -existence enjoyed by both our country's industries couldbe disturbed by what we believe to be a regional incident, and sincerely hope thatcorrective measures will be taken by the US government.

Our entertainment and music industry is closely allied to that of the US, in thata portion of union membership fees and dues go to the US head offices and a portion ofthese monies, no doubt, are paid to the US government in the form of taxes, not to men-tion countless hundreds of thousands in royalties that leave Canada each year. If we arebrothers of the same pocket then we should also be regarded as having equal status inso-far as guest appearances are concerned.

If the US government has been swayed by the complaints of a few egomaniacs in theAmerican music industry, who can't compete with the world market, and are preparing a"Musical Curtain" opening only to let American talent in and out, then we are indeed en-tering a sad era."MUSIC IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF MANKIND" -Longfellow

THE BIG TOWN BOYSaze

NOW ON CAPITOL!

"RPM, It was distress-ing to read RPM andsee its condemnationsof Maple Leaf Gardensin regard to the RollingStone's concert. Surelythis article was writtenwith envy and an attemptat malice. The acidylanguage of the writerwas noted when hewrote that MLG is 'aplace where hockeygames are played andcircuses performed'.Whereas he could quiteeasily have noticed for

example, that we have the Moiseyev dancecompany and the Royal Ballet, two of theoutstanding culture groups in the world,at the Gardens in May and June. Thearticle further stated that 'occasionally'a top teen group plays the Gardens.Heavens! there is no place in Canadawhich has presented more successfulteen attractions than we have. Ratherthan the occasion, it is the rote. We havealso given a showcase to Canadian sing-ing groups, and if RPM is interested inCanadian talent they should appreciatethis. Maple Leaf Gardens has staged al-most every worthy attraction and head-liner in the world. Its record is un-challenged. When the Beatles were lasthere, the attendance of 36,000 in one dayset a North American record for them-selves. When Rita Pavone was at theGardens she drew the largest crowd shehad ever drawn in the world. Nowhere inNorth America did the Rolling Stonesdraw a larger crowd than they did here.To say that the performers, the promotersand the invited press were not issued withsuitable passes is a falsehood. I lookedafter all these people myself. I suppliedboth promoters with the passes they re-quested for their retinue. The stage direc-tor for the evening, got passes for thethe people he designated for specialduties. All accredited press people wereissued passes and allowed back -stage. I

personally issued a pass to an RPM manthat Walt Grealis recommended to me. TheBeatles, the top group to appear anywherein the world, told us last year we hadthe best organized press conference inAmerica, and a feature of this was thebeautiful special passes we issued withunderstandable instructions. The Beatlesalso applauded us for the control we hadbackstage with press and gate-crashers.Maple Leaf Gardens many times has goneout of its way to aid RPM and its eagerorganizers, yet this magazine has nevergraced its pages with an article aboutthe Gardens - a building with a recordsecond to none in regard to entertain-ment groups. In this manner RPM isdoing its readers a disservice in notsupplying them with accurate informationon what is going on in Canada withmodern music. (signed) Stan Obodiac

(ED: Being in charge of the publicity de-partment of the MLG must be a tremendouschore. We have always had a great deal ofrespect for Stan Obodiac who happens tohave a very conscientious and diligentpart of this giant task. The time taken towrite the foregoing is further proof of hisdevotion to the job he does so well withwhat little he is supplied. However, westill reserve the right to criticize, con-structively, when the need is evident.)

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Regina: Johnny Onn fromCJME sends news thatthe big Easter hop inthe Queen City was agiant success. Head-lining the show wereWes Dakus and BarryAllen, fresh from theirrecording session inClovis. Terry Staffordwas also a part of thelineup. "Cast Your FateTo the Wind" by theSounds Orchestral is abig sound in Regina asis the new 'folk' soundfrom England "Catch

The Wind" by Donovan. "Tossin' andTurnin' by the Guess Whos, "I Tried ToTell Her" by The Jury and "Hum Drum"by Derek & Ed are big Canadian items at'ME. Johnny agrees with Big Bad Bertfrom CFSL (RPM Mailbag Apr.26)and findsthat pushing Canadian discs doesn't seemto have any degree of influence on thebuying public.(ED: The public will become aware ofCanadian products if Canadian radio sta-tions continue to give Canadian recordsa chance to compete. It took radio sta-tions a long time to recognize that therewas a record industry in Canada. In areaswhere Canadian records have been suffi-ciently exposed,they have been GREATLYaccepted).

Winnipeg: CKRC played host to Gerryand the Pacemakers. From all reports, theshow at the arena was a crushing success.

Red Deer: Terry Mulligan of CKRDsends a note of appreciation on the RPMfront page, spotlighting Barry Allen. Barryand Wes Dakus are regarded as top starsin Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C. andparticularly in the Red Deer area wherethe boys gig frequently.

Peace River: Mel Mac, the unbreak-able disk jockey from CKYL finds thatthe great acceptance of Canadian re-cords in the Peace country,has made itnecessary for the station to elaborate onits policy of playing Canadian recordsthroughout the day, everyday. They willnow feature a "Canadian Hour" every

Sunday and restrict this time slot toCanadian productions, LPs and singles.(ED: See what we mean!) We also re-ceived a note from Chuck Benson PD at'YL that promo record service has im-proved greatly.

Amherst: Gary "Young King" Crom-well and Mike Duffy of CKDH apparentlyhad a ball with the Chubby Checker showand managed to get the only exclusive in-terview with Checker. "Tossin' and Turn -in' by The Guess Whos looks like it'sgoing to be as popular as "Shakin' AllOver".

Edmonton: CJCA presented its firstAnnual Big Band Blastoff featuring Ed-monton's Top 16 Teen groups. There was$900.00 in prizes plus a recording con-tract. Wes Dakus and The Rebels head-lined the two day affair.

Saint John: Always finding ways ofpromoting good Canadian talent, Rockin'Robbert's "Smart Chart" spotlights theAllan Sisters with a photo and biog.

Toronto: "Blues is the sound forToronto". This is what many people inthe industry would have you believe, butwhen one of the greatest blues artistscomes to town, fewer than 50 people turn-ed up to catch his opening at The NewGate of Cleve Coffee House. We hopethe remainder of the week brought thetalkers out to hear John Lee Hooker. Inspite of the obvious poor acceptance ofblues in Canada, broadcasters still insistthat releases like "I'll Be Doggone" byMarvin Gaye and other hard blues singlesare best sellers, but R & B has alwaysbeen considered by a very select few asbeing "in". A good indication of "lazyprogramming" (a term you've heard before)is the chart success of this single current-ly in the top 10 in the American trades andbeing charted by programmers from coastto coast in Canada, on this basis alone.While this market has constantly proventhat hard R & B records do not sell.

J. P. Finnigan, one of Canada's bestrock DJs will be leaving CKEY for a posi-tion with a California station that obvious-ly recognizes talent when they hear it.J.P. became the victim of a change ofpolicy, by this Chicago run station and

was almost put out to pasture. From topDJ for the teens to hosting a housewivesshow. But, he is the hippest afternoonDJ in hogtown and has been the reasonthat CKEY has scored heavily for after-noon ratings. J.P. must have realized hewas out of his element and decided to dosomething about it. He'll be sorelymissed in this town. The teenagers al-ready miss him.

Watch for a general shake-up at theold guard, family station in Toronto.Changes have already taken place.

IRWIN Personal manager, JoeyZUC KER S

, Baker reports actorLiam Sullivan has pen-

t ned a few tunes forBobby Darin...RCA'snew find, Joey Cooper,kicked off his "Love"

'0' disk on national "Shin--t dig" TV ... Eileen

) Go ld s e n , daughter ofmusic publisher MickeyG., is building a rep asa singer in France...

1 \`gyp,Songstress Ellen Martyhas independently pro-duced her own album-

"' with lead-off cut a beaus"Man in a Raincoat."

Steve Adler's first assignment as apromotion man here is to publicize Mrs.Rebecca Adler(no relation),the Studio Cityhousewife -turned -singer with her "Pers8n-ality"platter..Looks like The Royaletteswill get rich with "Poor Boy",a MG Money-maker ... Dale Ward, the lad who hit re-cently with "Letter from Sherry", is hit -bound again with "I Tried," penned byDr. David Shapiro for Boy Records.

Recording execs flocking to Surf aGo Go in Rialto, Calif., to catch LarryMoroney's find, Terry Gale ... Look for anew femme group, The Elites, to springbig on Herb Newman's Era banner..AutumnRecords scooped up the British noise-maker, "Turn On", from the Lola label...Wires from disk folk in -the -know in St.Louis indicates the Bob Kuban Band can.hit big with "Jerkin' Time" on the Normantag.

That's "As I.Z. It" for now!

SLOOPY Little Caesar and the Consuls

STOP THE CLOCK Shirley Matthews

BABY RUTH ButterfingersWALK THAT WALK David Clayton Thomas

HE BELONGS TO YESTERDAY Pat Hervey

REMEMBER THE FACE Allan SistersNEVER SEND ME FLOWERS The Paupers

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Stop the Presses. Ordermore grapes. Stamp onthem with your bare feet.WINE!! HOLD everything!SCOOP!!! All the activi-and shun-anigans attribu-ted to one young Cana-dian personality seemphysically impossible.Either this is a case ofvery highstyled PR (inreverse) or we have asuperman in our midstin the guise of a mildmannered personalityYou Know who I mean!!!

Mammoth Mailbag!! Elvira is in trouble.Besides my efforts (in vain) to bring youall the news (uncensored), the overwhelm-ing mail pull of my column and the supportof my readers have put me in jeopardy ofbeing replaced by some mealy-mouthedconformist who will only bring you thenews fit to print. Thank you! Thank you, forall your support. This column has been ex-tremely successful, and many are now say-ing "I turn to your column first!!" (ED:possibly LAST!!).

Two for the price of one!!! Rumour hasit that we'll end up with two entities wherewe had one rock and roll group. Watch for agroup to break not quite in half and spec isthat both will crop up on the same label.

Watch for...shifts...shifts...shifts asa number of Canadian artists change labels.It brings to mind a recent press release thatstated the reason as being "for better dis-tribution" and guess who the companyissuing the press release was! Right! theloser.

A comment from a record man whojourneyed south for the warmer climes,"The first thing I missed on my car radiowas Canadian recordings as I got furtheraway from Canada." A Sign of The Times.

It is cheaper to record in Canada. Yes!8% cheaper and that's only to begin with.

Tin Can Alley is talking about. Thevery progressive major that is Really Real-ly contributing to the Canadian music in-dustry, and their attempts are On The Le-vel ... The great image created by RedLeaf Associates and the high standard oftheir productions and promotion.

Mickie A Go Go the new Saturdaynight TV show starring Dave Mickie willlaunch its first show with a Spectaculardevoted to Canadian talent and honouringa young Canadian record producer whosecontributions are more than slightly magnifi-cent. The Two Hour Special promises to bea star studded special!!! Premiering June5th.

The Best from the West: The best theWest can do for Canadian talent might beindicated in a shabby note from Calgary."We did not ask for copies of your gossipsheet nor do we have the gall to ask 30it foryour brochure of advertisements and non-sense". The note was signed G. Matheson.We might agree. Possibly this gentlemanmight be of assistance to the industrywhich I understand is his bread and butter.

Why should U.S. Groups (and artists)come to Canada to record. If they end upwith Smashes, we may see a great dealmore of this, and why in the first place???One year ago they'd never have thought ofCanada.

We'd like to quote. Harriet Wasser (ina recent RPM:) "TIN PAN ALLEY ISTALKING ABOUT THE BRAND NEW "ONTHE MOVE" ATTITUDE OF THE CANA-DIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY. BRAVO." Well,Bravo Harriet!

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Columbia Records rush-ed out Barbra Strei-sand's "My Name isBarbra" LP to coincidewith the rave reviewsgiven her TV Special bythe press. It's a surecontender for the Num-ber One position on thecharts in the weeks tocome.... The Highway-men cut their first ABC -Paramount LP. Theboys reportedly mostsigned with Columbia...Dave Fisher (musical,director for The High-

waymen. but not a member of the group)finished his first Columbia LP, arrangedby Don Costa."Help!" is the name of The Beatles se-cond movie. It will be the name of theboys next single release...Burt Bachar-ach has written two songs and the thememusic for the movie"What's New Pussey-cat?"...Movie offers are pouring in forHerman's Hermits.

Freddie Cannon said he is hopingto "break" his record of "In The Night"while on the Dick Clark Caravan...Heardfrom Lou Christie, who told me that hisnext release would be a revival of an oldsummer hit...Jeanne Thomas expressedher delight in her forthcoming solo record.Jeanne is lead singer with The Rag Dolls....I was not surprised when Charlie Ca lel lotold me he recorded a group called TheVictorians. This is the group Charlieplayed with before getting involved inrecords...I've been told that Tony Coni-gliaro's next RCA Victor release will be

"I Can't Get Over You".Tin Pan Alley is talking about the

current show at N.Y.'s Paramount Theatrestarring members of the Grand Olde Opry...the tragic death of Spike Jones ...andTommy Steele's sparkling performance in"Half A Sixpence".

Rumour has it that Gene Pitney's newrecord was supposed to be called 'LastExit to Brooklyn"before The Scott Bedford4 came out with their record of the sametitle..."One's Yours, One's Mine" nowlooks like the "A" side of the newJohnny Tillotson record...After a slowstart, Patti Page's "Hush, Hush, SweetCharlotte" has taken off...It's nice tosee Janice Harper back. RCA has gottenbehind "There Goes My Heart" and theirefforts are really paying off.

Waiting to break big on the charts"Keep On Trying" by Bobby Vee and"Break-up" by Del Shannon. Sure to bethe next Number One record is "Engine,Engine No.9" by Roger Miller, unless"L -o -n -e -1-y-" by Bobby Vinton beats itout...The Mojo Men could make chartnoise with "Off the Hook".

Mitch Murray returned to N.Y. afterconsumating a deal with T.M. Music onthe coast...American independent pro-ducer "Here Comes the Night" by Them...Andrew Oldham will record an instrumen-tal album of hits by The Rolling Stones...Jerry Ragovoy is London bound.Notes of Interest...Connie Francis wantedfor the remake of "Girl Crazy" (movie)...Vi Velasco will film "The Alan FreedStory" in Hollywood...The Beach Boysset for The Ed Sullivan Show on May 16th...Lou Christie set for six month Armystint.

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Tony Bast who compiles the weekly hitparade for CHAB Moose Jaw will be con-tributing reviews for Sounding Board.

Johnny Murphy CKPR LakeheadLet's take a chance tonight Johnny Harlow"Good commerical sound. Youngster showspromise. Good 'Tiajuana Brass" type trum-pet in background. Matter of fact, wouldhave helped the arrangement if it wereallowed to held the foreground. If onlybriefly. Glad you sent this one, first Arcrelease we've had here at the Lakeheadsince I've been here, about three months.SHOULD."Graham Wyllie CKCL TruroI'm Not Sayin' Gord Lightfoot"Should bring long overdue recognitionnationally and internationally. Will be a

favourite with GMP stations and folk mu-sic fans. Good lyrics and catch beatcould make it a hot item on top forty sta-tions. SURE.""Keg" Legge CHEC LethbridgeWhy Don't You Love Me Classics"I was delighted to see a good follow-upto another Classic favourite of mine. Ifeel it has a distinctive individual soundwhich is sure to catch on here. Alreadygetting lots of air play. Flip has potentialalso. SHOULD."Gary Parr CKLC KingstonWhy Don't You Love Me Classics"This sounds better with each listen, andit might make our fabulous Fifty, althoughnot a top tenner. The group is good, butsometimes the style seems a bit passe.COULD."Sandy Gardiner Ottawa JournalI'm Not Sayin' Gord Lightfoot"I'm not sayin' too much about this wax.What can you say except that it's great.SURE."Frank Cameron CJNS HalifaxStop The Clock Shirley Matthews"Another fine Bob Crewe production, butnot as good as Shirley's former releases.I find it tends to become monotonous. Icertainly have no quarrel with the produc-tion, but I feel the material is weak. Giveus another 'Big Town Boy' Shirley. Thisone appears on the chart purely on thestrength of Shirley's popularity. COULD."Chuck Benson CKYL Peace RiverWhy Don't You Love Me Classics"Their previous outings have been far be-low tar, but this tacks up to THE BESTYET. SHOULD be a winner in all circles.Well produced."

Sandy Gardiner Ottawa JournalToo Blind To See Brunswick Playboys"The title shows the boys have the feelfor a slightly more involved than usualrock offering and they do a good job mu-sically on this outing. The Maritimes willback them to the hilt but I'll bet the Westwill be too blind to see. SHOULD."Ray Nickel CF SL Wey burnMy Guy Dianne James"I think Dianne has done it this time. Herfirst one was a good one too but didn'tclick here. I think this one will becauseit has the lyrics and the 'hit' sound aswell. see no reason why this shouldn'tbe Dianne's biggest yet. SURE."Gary Crowell CKDH AmherstMy Guy Dianne James"Dianne has done little for me to date, but"My Guy" could make her 'My Gal'. Beat& sax will make it a hit at hops. However,side lacks depth and that certain some-thing. Klees, Snider, Roman or that Scotfrom Ottawa could re -produce the cuttingand give it 'the money in the bank sound'.COULD."

COUNTRYLarry Snelgrove CKYL Peace RiverSkip Hop and Wobble Artie & The Mustangs"Strongly reminiscent of Hal Wallis' TheLumberjack'. Arrangement is simple andrefreshing, however, with good production.COULD."

Attention: Discjockeys. If you feel you'vefound a Canadian HIT. Write a 30 word re-view and tell us about it. Send along apicture and a short bio. We'll print it ifwe have the room. (We do about 90% of thetime)-ED.

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