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INTERNATIONAL<br />
Canadian Industry Carries On<br />
Despite National Postal Strike<br />
by Kirk LaPointe<br />
air and bus courier systems to other centres.<br />
TORONTO -A national mail strike has dis- Larry Green, national promotional direcrupted<br />
the business community and could tor for WEA Music of Canada Ltd., said his<br />
erode the music industry's anticipated firm is trying to upgrade its out-of-town<br />
profit margins If it lasts - as it is expected salesman and promotional visits. Green<br />
to - for several weeks or months. While also said he has phoned many radio stamany<br />
record companies, promoters, tions in smaller communities and has<br />
agents and publishers surveyed by Cash asked them to pick up promotional records<br />
Box last week have at their disposal alter- - for which WEA has recently begun to<br />
native means of conducting business, all charge a flat annual fee - at nearby retail<br />
agree that a prolonged strike by the Cana- outlets.<br />
dian Union of Postal Workers will make "We're quite sure our plan will meet with<br />
chaotic the often -tenuous ties with many in- cooperation, particularly in smaller towns<br />
dustry concerns In outlying areas of the where the retailers and radio stations tend<br />
country.<br />
to work together closely," Green said. "And<br />
The postal workers began their strike at there's really no problem In major Canamidnight,<br />
June 30. Negotiations with the dian centers. We're confident we can get<br />
federal Treasury Board broke off three the product to those people."<br />
days earlier. At press time, no further talks The radio service, begun this year,<br />
were scheduled.<br />
charges stations $375 a year for rock<br />
Record companies could eventually bear product, $300 for adult contemporary and<br />
the brunt of the strike most deeply. A survey $50 for country. Stations requiring full serof<br />
six major and Independent firms found vice pay $625 annually.<br />
that most were relying heavily on retailers "We're in a sort of double bind because<br />
to help distribute albums and singles to of the service," Green admits. "But we learradio<br />
stations in secondary Canadian ned a lot from the last strike (six years ago,<br />
markets, some were making greater use of which lasted 10 days)."<br />
the government -run (but not strikebound) Liz Braun, national press and publicity<br />
priority post service, and all were utilizing director for CBS Records Canada Ltd., said<br />
existing courier and inter -branch trucking<br />
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systems.<br />
No Choice<br />
CBS/Sony Tells<br />
"Let's face it," said David Bluestein,<br />
Accounts To Stop<br />
president of The Agency, the country's<br />
largest concert and club agent, "nothing is<br />
Renting Records<br />
the same without the mail service. We can<br />
do all we can, but nothing will replace the<br />
by Kozo Otsuka<br />
mail."<br />
TOKYO - Following closely on the heels of<br />
Bluestein said his firm is making use of calls for a government ban on the renting of<br />
drivers and couriers locally and is utilizing records at retail outlets, CBS/Sony has<br />
informed its accounts that its product must<br />
not be used as rentals. The CBS/Sony<br />
announcement, in the form of a letter to its<br />
accounts, followed official calls for the<br />
banning of rentals by the Japan<br />
Phonograph Record Assn. (JPRA) (Cash<br />
Box, April 11) and the AARDJ, the retailers'<br />
trade association. (Cash Box, July 11).<br />
Citing the reason that CBS/Sony product<br />
"should be sold to users only for their own<br />
use and not for lease and duplication," the<br />
company's letter to Its accounts said, in<br />
part, that "all dealers are required not to sell<br />
records we manufacture to rental record<br />
dealers.<br />
"In short," the letter continued, "we must<br />
exclude the rental business from the record<br />
industry to guard our legal interests."<br />
With nearly 300 outlets throughout<br />
Japan offering record rentals, the JPRA<br />
and AARDJ both claim that the practice<br />
encourages home taping and violations of<br />
existing copyright laws.<br />
RISING STAR - Scotland's Sheena<br />
Easton (c), whose debut single, "Morning<br />
Train (9 To 5),"on EMI was a worldwide hit,<br />
received a gold record from EMI<br />
America/Liberty Records president Jim<br />
Mazza (I) and EMIA/Liberty A&R vice president<br />
Don Grierson, who were in London on<br />
a business trip.<br />
TOP TEN 45s<br />
Argentina<br />
1 Tu Para MI - Franco Simone - Microfon<br />
2 Hoy He Empezado A Quererte - Dyango - EMI<br />
3 De Nina A Mujer - Julio Iglesias - CBS<br />
4 Todo Fuera Del Amor - Air Supply - Microfon<br />
5 Su Mas Valiente - Lucrecia - CBS<br />
6 The Gambler - Kenny Rogers - EMI<br />
7 Vivir Sin Ti - Camilo Sesto - Microfon<br />
8 Living In The Front Line - Eddy Grant - ATC/Music Hall<br />
9 Carita De Pena - Los Moros - RCA<br />
10 Quiero Dormir Cansado - Emmanuel - RCA<br />
TOP TEN LPs<br />
1 Musica Muy Exclusiva - various artists -K -tel<br />
2 Come Ti Amo - various artists - K-tel/ATC<br />
3 De Nina A Mujer - Julio Iglesias - CBS<br />
4 En Argentina - Franco Simone - Microfon<br />
5 Pensar En Nada - Leon Gieco - Music Hall<br />
6 Flash Gordon - soundtrack - EMI<br />
7 Estrellas En 45 - various artists - Phonogram<br />
8 Exltos Del Amor 81 - various artists - Microfon<br />
9 Greatest Hits - Kenny Rogers - EMI<br />
10 Chanson D'Amour - various artists -K -tel<br />
-Prensarlo<br />
INTERNATIONAL DATELINE<br />
Argentina<br />
BUENOS AIRES - Mario Kaminsky, president<br />
of Microfon Argentina, reported to<br />
Cash Box that his company has signed an<br />
agreement with RCA for the pressing and<br />
distribution of the Microfon product<br />
through the RCA organization. The contract<br />
was signed with Adolfo Pino, RCA's international<br />
vice president, in Rio de Janeiro<br />
and is effective immediately. Kaminsky told<br />
Cash Box that this agreement will allow him<br />
to concentrate his efforts on the development<br />
and promotion of new product, while<br />
the RCA commercial team will be able to<br />
directly reach 35% more dealers than the<br />
previous Microfon net.<br />
American Recording is this week hosting<br />
the visit of Brazilian chanteuse Gretchen,<br />
whose tour to Argentina has already been<br />
mentioned in this column. Her latest album,<br />
which includes "Conga, Conga, Conga," a<br />
discotheque hit, is selling briskly.<br />
CBS and Interdisc hosted a convention<br />
at the Bauen Hotel to explain to the CBS<br />
sales force the ideas behind the sales &<br />
promo campaign that will follow the distribution<br />
contract signed between both<br />
companies last week. The event has been<br />
attended by execs of both companies, and<br />
a new label, to be distributed also by CBS<br />
and A&Red by Interdisc topper Ruben<br />
Aprile, is to be launched soon.<br />
The Chamber of Record Producers<br />
issued a letter to the Minister of Economy<br />
stating that, due to incorrect policies in the<br />
past, the phonographic industry is facing<br />
serious economic and financial problems.<br />
One of the reasons for this has been the import<br />
of hundreds of thousands of records<br />
and tapes in the past, and the chamber is<br />
asking for a straight increase in import<br />
duties and a moratorium on national, state<br />
and city taxes.<br />
PolyGram is releasing a new album by<br />
pop chanteur Sergio Denis, who has been a<br />
hot name for months due to three albums<br />
released by different companies:<br />
PolyGram last year launched his previous<br />
album, followed by K -tel with a compilation<br />
and CBS with a budget LP of old<br />
recordings.<br />
EMI has been developing promotion efforts<br />
in the TV field through videocassettes<br />
of its main international artists that are admitted<br />
in programs in Buenos Aires and the<br />
interior of the country. There is also work<br />
the strike pulled off. Impressive national<br />
adds have resulted ... LaBarge is heavily<br />
involved in another strong comeback<br />
recording - the Walter Zwol and the Rage<br />
album from A & M. "Thrillz" is Zwol at his<br />
most assured in years. Robin Geoffrey<br />
Cable seems to have wrought the power<br />
that Zwol capably conveys in concert but so<br />
rarely displays on vinyl ... Saga will play<br />
the Redding Festival in Britain this summer.<br />
The band is recording a fourth disc with<br />
Rupert Hine in England.<br />
kirk lapointe<br />
France<br />
MILAN - WEA Italiana is organizing a<br />
promotion operation for July called "WEA<br />
brings music." A coach full of artists<br />
(among them Enzo Avallone, Nicola Di<br />
Bari, II Giardino dei Semplici, Ronnie<br />
around window panels for dealers on a<br />
Jones,<br />
nationwide basis. miguel smirnoff<br />
Michele Pecora and others) will visit<br />
record shops, journalists, disc-jockeys and<br />
Canada<br />
operators in the music business throughout<br />
Italy.<br />
TORONTO - WEA is breathing a sigh of CGD recently released a new album by<br />
relief over the continuing national mail Minimo Cavallo, entitled "Uh, Mamma."<br />
strike. It sent two key Canadian releases - The track, written by Cavallo when the Rusthe<br />
much -touted debut album from Geoff sians invaded Afganistan, is a "hymn" to<br />
Hughes and the debut single from Bernie freedom.<br />
La Barge - to radio stations days before The 15th edition of the SIM/HiFi (International<br />
Music and High Fidelity Fair) will<br />
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS<br />
Australia<br />
Germany<br />
TOP TEN 45s<br />
TOP TEN 45s<br />
1 Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes - EMI America<br />
2 This Ole House Shakin' Stevens -<br />
1 Stars On 45 - CNR<br />
2 Hands Up (Give Me Your Love) - Ottawan Carrere<br />
Epic<br />
3 Lieb mich ein letztes Mal<br />
3 Turn Me Loose - Loverboy - - Roland Kaiser - Hansa<br />
CBS<br />
4 In The Air Tonight<br />
4 Bad Habits - Billy Field - Phil Collins - Atlantic<br />
WEA<br />
5 Shaddap You Face<br />
5 Kids In America - Kim Wilde - - Joe Dolce Music Theatre - Ariola<br />
Rak<br />
6 Loreley<br />
6 Gotta Pull Myself Together The Nolans - - Dschinghis Khan - Jupiter<br />
Epic<br />
7 This Ole House<br />
7 Jealous Guy - Roxy Music - Shakin' Stevens - Epic<br />
Polydor<br />
8 Chequered Love<br />
8 They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk To Me - Kim Wilde - RAK<br />
Jimmy & The Boys 9 Bette Davis Eyes<br />
- - Kim Carnes - EMI<br />
Avenue<br />
10 Mind Of A Toy<br />
9 Stars On 45 - - Visage - Polydor<br />
Mercury<br />
10 Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon - Epic<br />
TOP TEN LPs<br />
TOP TEN LPs<br />
1 The Beatles Ballads -<br />
1 A wie ABBA - ABBA - Polydor<br />
2 Face Value - Phil Collins - WEA<br />
Parlophone<br />
3 Long Play Album<br />
2 Face Value Phil Collins -<br />
- Stars On 45 - CNR<br />
Atlantic<br />
4 Visage<br />
3 Bad Habits - Billy Field -<br />
- Polydor<br />
WEA<br />
5 This Ole House<br />
4 The Fox Elton John -<br />
- Shakin' Stevens - Epic<br />
Rocket<br />
6 Turn Of The Tide<br />
5 Loverboy - Barclay James Harvest - Polydor<br />
CBS<br />
7 Christiane F.<br />
6 Corroboree Split Enz -<br />
- Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo -<br />
Mushroom<br />
7 Vienna - Ultravox Chrysalis<br />
8 HI Infidelity - REP Speedwagon - Epic<br />
9 Christopher Cross - Warner Bros.<br />
10 Bad For Good - Jim Steinman - Epic<br />
-Kent Music Report<br />
PARIS - A&M Records chairman Jerry<br />
Moss recently completed a promotion and<br />
business trip of nine countries in Europe in<br />
as many days. The visit followed the enormous<br />
success of A&M product in Continental<br />
Europe (distributed by CBS Records),<br />
and the sales breakthroughs of its<br />
Supertramp and The Police. During his<br />
business meetings with CBS staffers in the<br />
major markets, Moss took time to present<br />
and promote upcoming releases by major<br />
A&M artists, including Brothers Johnson,<br />
Peter Frampton, Herb Albert, Styx, Tim<br />
Curry, .38 Special, Spilt Enz, Bryan<br />
Adams, Carpenters, Neville Brothers, Rita<br />
Coolidge, Squeeze and Robert Williams.<br />
One of the highlights of the trip was the<br />
presentation to Moss by Norman Block,<br />
managing director, CBS Switzerland, of a<br />
specially designed triple platinum award<br />
for Supertramp's "Breakfast in America"<br />
album. The sales of "Breakfast in America"<br />
per person of the Swiss population is<br />
equivalent to sales of over five million units<br />
in the United States. Moss also received on<br />
behalf of Will Jennings, songwriter for<br />
Almo Irving and Rondor Music International,<br />
a gold record for sales in Holland<br />
of over 50,000 copies of the Steve Winwood<br />
LP, "Arc of a Diver," to which Will contributed<br />
four songs, including "While You<br />
See A Chance" and "Night Train." The<br />
album is now approaching the platinum<br />
mark.<br />
dilek koc<br />
Italy<br />
soundtrack/David Bowie - RCA<br />
8 Die schonsten Melodien der Welt No. II - Orchester Antony<br />
Ventura - Ariola<br />
9 Stinker - Marius Muller-Westernhagen - Ariola<br />
10 Computerwelt - Kraftwerk - Kling Klang<br />
-Der Musikmarkt