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OUR BREAKTHROUGH WILL BESPARROW-

MONIUM too!THINGS HAVE CHANGED

Looking back over the year at the activities of the musicindustry indicates a definite change. Exactly one year ago,the charts across Canada listed 9 different records in variousstages of chart action.

This weeks' Chart Action page shows 19 Canadiansingles charted across Canada. The pleasing note isthe national consistency of certain singles. Recently, TerryBlack's "Unless You Care" scored heavily across Canada,and made the first significant inroad into the US market.This week there was talk of a great new interest in BobbyCurtola south of the border. Capitol's Esquires with "SoMany Other Boys" tops the charts across Canada and pro-mises to follow the footsteps of the Terry Black single.Wes Dakus' "Las Vegas Scene" is listed from coast tocoast, but suffers in some regions. Toronto has all butignored this record, as has Montreal.

Meanwhile Wes is experiencing great success in themiddle west. Curtola's most recent entry "Alone and Lonely"works it's way up to the top of the charts. Robbie Lane,Joe Popiel, and the Allan Sisters show great promise.

SINGLES REPRESENTATIVE

Every region of Canada is represented on the charts,Vancouver's Classics, Ottawa's Dean Hagopian, Toronto'sSandy Selsie, Garry Ferrier, Regents and the Consuls, Ed-monton's Wes Dakus and Barry Allen. Some are actually 100%Canadian, and US release is pending on many of these.CAPITOL DOES IT AGAIN

Not satisfied with their unheralded success in theworld music business in 1964, Capitol Records of Canadacome up with two very strong contenders for the internationalmarket. The Esquire's "So Many Other Boys" is being con-sidered for American release, and more recently, a Liverpoolsinger named Jack London (who presently resides in Toronto)has signed an exclusive pact with Capitol, and his initialCanadian made single was an overnight success in theToronto area. The success of his appearances following therelease of his first single indicated that Jack London andThe Sparrows were on their way. One of London's first Tor-onto appearances was at a "Sock Hop" at Leaside HighSchool (a United Appeal fund raising event). The students

'65over -enthusiastic acceptance of him was just another indi-cation of what was to come.

One newspaper man tabbed the whole thing "SPARROW-MONIUM" with pictures in the daily papers of the Sparrow -cut(the long tresses now identified with the singer) and a frontpage story about the devotion of one fan to the London -Sparrow image. Paul White of Capitol tells us that Capitol'sswitchboard had been barraged with calls, following a TVperformance. The following day the TV station phones Whiteto ask what to do with "all the mail".

THIS IS THE SPARROWS1

JACK LONDON and the Sparrows take time out during their sessionto relax and receive directions. The result was Capitol's firstsingle by the Sparrow's "If You Don't Want My Love".

Jack London and the Sparrows came into prominence justat the time The Beatles were in Canada (RPM Sept. 14, frontpage story) shortly after, Capitol signed London and theCanadian cut single was released. What followed was justshort of being amazing. London is now booked on all thelocal and national TV teen shows.

LP SOON AND CROSS CANADA TOUR

An LP is in the offing, and many requests for personalappearances have started plans for a city by city tour ofCanada. Two of London's tunes are about to be recorded byother artists.MAKE IT ON TALENT ALONE

To quote from RPM of Sept. 14th, "1 would like to pre-dict. They'll make it on talent alone. Jack London and theSparrows."

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EVERYBODY is talking about "The Cana-dian Invasion of the world music scene"....everybody EXCEPT ....Canadians . Strongest"CanCut" records for the invasion are:"So Many Other Boys" by the Esquires,"If You Don't Want My Love" by JackLondon and "Driven From Home" by JaySmith and the Majestics.Wes Dakus is back in Clovis, New Mexicoworking on an LP. Wes tells us they are alsotaping a couple of sessions with Barry Allen,All of course under the capable guidanceof Norman Petty. Another of Petty's prod-igies Joe Popiel is beginning to show chartaction across the country with his "I Can't

Live Without You" on Quality. Joe has teamed up with the 5Checkmates from Kingston and with the able assistance fromthe Robert Stone Agency Joe and the group are booked solidthrough to the end of the year.

Arc Sound has announced many new changes to go alongwith the opening of their newly furnished sound studio. Dueto the increased demand for custom pressing, John Porteoushas been appointed topper of this department while KenStanley will take over duties as Promotion Manager. BobBennett will be looking after A &R work for Rhythm andBlues sessions while Ben Weatherby will A &R the Countrysessions. Phil Anderson (the Pres) informs me of a very busyschedule ahead for this progressive Canadian company.Ritchie Knight comes out with a new one for Arc called"You'll Go Crazy". Donny Burns from Winnipeg joins theArc family with "Cool Yule", a Peter Gunn type presenta-tion done along "Twas The Nite Before Christmas" theme.Also for Arc and making quite an impression in the FortWilliam area is Ronnie Gee with his "You Got Me Crying".

In Answer to "What's being done for Canadian song-writers?" take a look at the BMI (Canada) mailing of their"All Canadian Pin-up Hits". Strong chart items like "Aloneand Lonely" (Hurdon) and "So Many Other Boys" (Norman)and coming up "If You Don't Want My Love" (London) and"Ringo -Deer" (Ferrier). For country there's "Happy Birth-day" (Kitson) and instrumental "Rocking Horse" (Varga).These are just a few. For the complete listing drop a line toHarold Moon at BMI, Toronto.

Terry Regan advises that his firm Canadian Music Salesis publishing the Barbara Locke writing of "Christmas Is A -Coming". Barbara does a cute job on this number for theCTL series. We kinda think it would be a good seller if re-leased as a single.

Garry Ferrier of CHUM Toronto has what could be thenovelty tune of the Christmas season. "Ringo -Deer" onCapitol is cute and catchy and brings out Ferrier's talent forwriting as well as performing.

Malka and Joso the folk singing duo who made such agreat impression on the crowds at the Toronto Star Hooten-any during the CNE have taped a session for Canadian Cap-itol. From all reports it could be another of the successstories that seem to be blessing Capitol. The biggest newsfrom Capitol is the phenomenal success of Jack London,with his release of "If You Don't Want My Love". It was nosooner off the presses when CKEY realized the potential ofthe record and went on both sides. London's appearance onDave Mickie's Channel 11 Dance Party sparked a mail andtelephone response never before heard of. CHUM have listedthis record as one of their "Hot New Hits". This productioncould well be the next disc to conquer the world market. TheEsquires are still having great chart action success across2

the country.Hold The Phone, here's another Canadian entry that has

that hit sound about it. Doug Hutton from Alberta comes onstrong with an RCA Victor waxing of "A Taste Of Love"f/s "This Old Train".

Our mail pull has been so great and socomplimentary we would like to reprint afew quotes from these:A TEENAGE READER WRITES: "RPM re-ceived very high praise from a dee jay atWKBW in Buffalo, N.Y. The impact of hisremarks is intensified when one realizesthat he seldom has a kind word for anythingthat isn't stamped 'Made in the USA'. Need-less to say I was very pleased to see (inthe Dave Clark Five - Bobby Curtola pro-gram) that subscriptions were opened tothe public."

FROM A RECORD STORE OWNER: "Your Country Musicedition is the best yet from RPM. I want to say something,that possibly hasn't been said. While your sheet gives ourvery very small industry the hype it needs, I would imaginefrom the look of RPM, even in the 8 pages (which packs amighty punch) it is costing a small fortune. Also, the bigpeople in the industry are your best supporters. Carefulscrutiny of RPM quickly tells us in the trade who the'piggy -backers' are." FROM A YOUNG READER: "I amwriting to add my name to what must be an endless listof thankful people grateful for your publication. Since 1 amstill in High School I hope that by the time I can devote myfull attention to radio there will be an established recordindustry in Canada. I know that RPM will be of great help."AN AMERICAN PUBLISHER WRITES: "You are certainlyfulfilling a vital function and a needed service. Much oflife is a chain reaction, so count me in as a 'ball -roller'for you." A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL NOTES: "I thinkthere is no question that the aims of your newsletter arelaudable." A RECORD COMPANY EXECUTIVE WRITES:"The day has come when we in Canada in the record busi-

ness may have more control over our destiny. The possibilityof this changing has arrived with the birth of a Canadiantrade publication. From what we have seen, this (RPM) re-presents a sincere and honest effort, not only to coverCanadian talent, but international talent as well, and itshistory in the Canadian market place." AN AMERICANWRITER COMMENTS: "Your guts make us look like pikers.Our whole rotten industry needs someone like you to exposewhat really is going on downhere". AN AMERICAN COLUMN-IST WRITES: "First I want to tell you of the great inroadsyou have made into the US record industry. Some very im-portant people have been made aware of the Canadian recordindustry."

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Floran Fevens of CKEN Kentville, NovaScotia sent along an interesting bit of in-formation on a group known as The FerrarisOf Canada. These boys are an establishedeastern seaboard group. Starting from theirhome town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia theyheaded into Boston aboard the MV Bluenosewhere they began to attain American popu-larity. They have a release slated for thefirst of the year called "(All I Ever WantIs) Girls".Dave Lyman sends news of CKY's publicservice activities. During the uprising ofthe Congolese rebels one of the familiesmissing in the Congo was that of Dr. Loewen

Manitoba. Local relatives had been unable toget word of his fate so CKY made several long distancephone calls and finally Mike Hopkins received information.that the family was safe and relayed this news back to theanxious relatives in Steinbach. Another public service beingperformed by CKY is assisting the Christmas Cheer Boardof Greater Winnipeg. Each year the Board distributes toysand food to over 3500 needy families. In cooperation withthe Peter Jackson Tobacco Company these donations arepicked up anywhere in the Metro area or taken to CKY orany Winnipeg Fire Hall. The firemen make any necessaryrepairs and "whamo" it's a Merry Christmas for many un-fortunates.

Jack Morse, MD at WHEN Syracuse has an interest-ing set-up for programming that gives emphasis on localtalent and could work for some of our Canadian stations,Saturing evening they go with a live show from a downtownhotel featuring a dance group. The same hotel gets the treat-ment again Tuesday night using a dance group from one ofits other rooms. Sunday night they broadcast a SyracuseSymphony concert. So along with their prime interest in 45'sand LP's the above makes up for a complete musical picturefor WHEN.

Monday Nite (30) we received a desperate phone callfrom one of our readers asking us to inform Don Chevroletof WOWO Fort Wayne Indiana that Terry Black was a Cana-dian and the name of the American distrib for this disc.Donapparently received a request for Terry's record but foundit wasn't in the station so asked for assistance from hislisteners. Don has since been put on our mailing list.

Many visitors from Vancouver enjoying the hospitalityof the big pineapple this last week (28) for the Grey CupGame. Bob Smith of the CBC Vancouver took time out to giveus a call and to assure us that there really wasn't a BritishColumbia wall. Canadians are quite free to pass over theRockies and they can send mail if they wish. No "Care "parcels, just news.

While on the B.C. scene we continue to be impressedwith the British Columbia presentation of CBC-TV "CrossCanada" every Friday evening. Radio must be very excitingon the west coast. The last series we saw (27) dealt with"talk" type shows and all that was missing was a "heyrube" between Jack Webster and Pat Burns. Their showsmust make the one in Toronto sound like a family get-together.

Yet another American comes to Canada, but not quite.Tommy Shannon one of the most popular radio personalitiesin the Buffalo area moves over to CKLW Windsor (or is itDetroit?).

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Helen Hatton has some interesting program notes fromCHUM -FM and is particularly impressed with the Richmondrelease of the "Mahler 4th Symphony" also the Argo release"What Passing Bell" with works by Rupert Brooke, ThomasHardy and Field Marshal Viscount French. This poetry andprose type LP was released to commemorate the 50th anni-versary of the first World War. Also very interesting is "Pas-torales" on Columbia. Works by Milhaud, Persichette, "TheWalking Tune" by Percy Grainger, and "Pastorale for Voiceand Winds" by Stravinsky are performed by groups of solo-ists, notably flautist William Cancaid. Two works new to thecatalogue are Eurodisc releases of "The Pheasants Wed-ding" by Leopold Mozart (father of Wolfgang) and WilhelmJerger's "Saltsburg Court Baroque" (modern, but not weirdlymodern). Canadian Music Sales are handling distribution inCanada.

From CKFH, George Wilson strongly recommends "Fid-dler On The Roof" with the original Broadway cast (RCAVictor). Three Mercury releases George feels are well doneare The Johnny Mathis newie "Ole", "Broadway Marches"with The Fennell Symphonic Winds (recommended cuts, "76Trombones" and "Strike Up The Band") and "PercussionParisian" by The Donald Carroll Orchestra.

A Great Single for GMP stations is the new RCA Victor"A Spoonful Of Sugar" from the movie "Mary Poppins". Thisrelease is unique in that it is done in both English andFrench by Iris Robin, a very cute and talented French Cana-dian. Another songstress from RCA Victor with a great newsingle is Gale Garnett with her "I Used To Live Here". Asa matter of fact the flip side "Lovin' Place" has alreadystarted a flurry on the Top Forty stations. For comedy, youmight give a listed to Capitol's re -activated smash of lastyear "Scrooge And The Stars ' with Rich Little.

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4 Unless You CareTerry Black - Arc 10 26 26 18 31 13 22 13 16

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10 18 I FEEL FINE (2)11 16 xGOIN' OUT OF MY HEAD12 13 *REACH OUT FOR ME13 14 SHA LA LA14 34 *KEEP SEARCHIN'15 17 AS TEARS GO BY16 24 *WILLOW WEEP FOR ME17 19 *GONE GONE GONE18 27 *THE WEDDING19 20 AUTOMATIC REACTION20 21 xYOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN21 26 50 MANY OTHER BOYS22 22 xROSES ARE RED MY LOVE23 23 LAS VEGAS SCENE24 39 ALONE AND LONELY25 25 xSHE UNDERSTANDS ME26 28 SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES27 30 WALK AWAY

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Canada's Top Chart Stations list the following records intheir top twenty which also rate over and above the normallyconstantly listed singles .CHIQ HamiltonCKEY TorontoCHAB Moose Jaw

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International ReportDateline New York by Harriet Wessel

"Look Out! Look Out!" The Shangri Las have a brandnew record out and it's about to take off like gangbusters.It's called "Give Him A Great Big Kiss". Those three youngguys at Kama -Sutra Productions should really be in theirglory because as if one smash isn't enough, I hear that Jayand the Americans are about to make them richer with their

11 record of "Let's Lock The Door and Throw Away The Key".We all know it was inevitable, Larry Finnegan just came

out with a take -off record on "Ringo", called "The OtherRingo". Need we say more? Also, a year later we have a

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record called "Army Green" by Dale Brooks. This is a com-ment on Diane Renay's record of "Navy Blue".

Songwriter, Larry Kusie, is very proud of his new BobbyVinton Christmas single, "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle".

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He wrote the song with Burt Bacharach before Burt and HalDavid became a permanent writing team. What songwriterwouldn't be proud to have his name on a song with Burt?

When reviewing The Royal Jacks record of "You'llIllNever Be Mine" f/s "Don't Act Smart With Me" (DancoRecords), Billboard was quoted as saying, "Perhaps this isthe beginning of the Canadian invasion." All Canadian recordrecord producers, take note.

Tin Pan Alley is talking about ... the overnight successof Morgans King. Seeing Her LP, "With A Taste Of Honey"on the charts, we are reminded of the first LP she cut onMercury about 10 years ago. The critics raved about her then.WMCA is playing an exclusive Beatles' LP called "Beatles'65". It hasn't been released in England yet and won't bereleased here for a couple of months. The Poets, a group fromScotland, produced by Andrew Oldham, bow in on Bob Crewe'sDynovox label in the US. Their recording of "Now We'reThru" is in the Top 20 in Great Britain.

Waiting to break big on the charts is "I'll Be There"by Gerry and the Pacemakers. Also "I'm The Lover Man"by Little Gerry Williams. The latter was produced by FrankSlay, who produced Nino and the Ebbtides "Automatic Re-action" and "The Twelfth Of Never" by The Tymes.

Notes of interest: Jackie DeShannon is currently pro-ducing records in England. Jean Paul Vignon debuts with aColumbia LP Dec. 21st. The Rag Dolls, now with BellRecords, have a brand new single entitled "Dusty". LennyWelch has been signed by Kapp Records. (Why doesn't somecompany grab former Cadence artist Julius LaRosa?) "Hawaii,Tattoo" by The Waikikis could mean more records with theHawaiian "sound".

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"Doesn't Capitol ever make mis-takes? This could be the one tomake the entire Canadian music in-dustry say 'Yeah. Yeah, Yeah'.Without reading the label guesswhere this one was produced? Yousee, we are getting the idea. Thishas got to be a big one: SURE."

SANDY GARDINER is not soft spoken. He has likes anddislikes and makes them known. That's why he is regardedas one of the best record critics in Canada today. That'swhy Sandy is TV critic and record columnist plus editor of

two pages geared toPOP (Patrons of Pop)lovers for the OttawaJournal. He is no stran-ger to the newspaperbusiness. Eight yearsago at the age of fif-teen he began his news-paper career in his home-town of Glasgow Scot-land. Coming to Canada21/2 years ago he has at-tained prominencehis writing for the Ot-tawa Journal. He is alsodisc critic for CanadianBoy magazine and a cor-respondent for Britain's

top musical weekly the New Musical Express.Seven of eight years of reporting by Sandy has been on

the music business. He knows the British scene and artists,having written extensively on the subject and interviewedmany of the top artists. He feels now that he has completedhis musical education with a first hand look at the Canadianand US business. He is a great backer of British discs andwas very happy with the turn of events that spotlighted theEnglish sound throughout the world.see and is striving to assist in putting Canada on the musi-cal map.

Sandy is a partner in Dasanda Productions with DaveBritten, noted Canadian sing -songwriter.

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by fred royAn additional six half-hour programs of theCTV Network series, "Country Music Hall"went before the CFTO cameras last week(24-25) for a total of 28 completed shows ofthe scheduled 39 in the series. US guests,each doing three shows included ErnestTubb and his Texas Troubadors (24) andLefty Frizzell (25). Canadians, includedNeil Jackson, Wayne Richard, Jimmy James,Hank Boucher and others. /// Ben Kerr,Toronto songsmith, who penned both sidesof the latest Diane Leigh disc (Quality) hastaken on promotion duties for the Windsorbased Country newspaper "Country Music

Ambassador" which is directed at the fan rather than thetrade.///Canadian songwriter Dave Campbell reports goodregional action on his "All My Heartaches Are Over" byBeverly Buff on the Nashville based Do-Ra-Me label, one ofthe many Murray Nash operations. Ron Kitson's (CFGM) song"Happy Birthday" by Loretta Lynn. (Decca) broke into thecountry charts in all three national US trades this week (28)each giving a comparatively high rating for an initial listing.///Diane Leigh, regular femme vocalist on "Country MusicHall" is the proud Mom of an 8 weeks old baby girl.///DickDamron's RCA Victor click tabbed "Hitch Hikin' " looks likeit will hit the top according to reports from several areasacross Canada.///Ottawa spinner (CKOY) Ted Daigle has anew Xmas single in the making, "New Baby For Xmas", duefor release soon on London. Tune is a successful GeorgeJones item of several seasons ago.///Saul Holiff PM forJohnny Cash was recently married in his home town of Lon-don, Ontario. His bride was Miss Barbara Robinson of London.///Harold Moon, bossman at BMI-Canada is a newly -electedVeep of the Country Music Association. His post at CMAlast year was that of publisher -representative of the Board ofDirectors. Tex Ritter was re-elected President and FrancesPreston re-elected Chairman of the Board for 1964-65 season.///DJ's from two of Canada's full-time country stations arein need of new country discs and appeal to Canadian dis-tribs for some rush assistance. The fellows in need are PatO'Connor at CJDV, Drumheller, Alberta and Bill Maxim ofCFCW, Camrose, Alberta.

"Ramblin" Ross Allenis without question oneof the best liked artistsaround the Toronto areaand a native son of thecity. Born in Toronto 24years ago, he was acountry enthusiast fromthe start. Winning muchacclaim in many schooland college presenta-tions, he decided tomake country music en-tertaining his life careerand soon formed a bandwhich he called The

Homesteaders. His first record was also the first for a newcompany called Arc Records. His waxing of "Memories ofHank Williams" is still the top selling LP in the Arc cata-logue. Ross then released an LP on London featuring severalof his own compositions, "My Love Will Follow You" and"Be Unfair And Be Untrue". The latter was also released asa single coupled with "Hey Baby". Ross is concentrating onpersonal appearances and usually plays to full houses. Thefuture calls for more recording sessions. Ross is holdingforth presently at the Norseman Tavern in Cooksville. 7

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