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Record Industry Made Wobbly Through Double-Dealing Business Editor's note: This is the ;econd of three articles on the business of popular musir. Today the popular record business. By FRED DANZIG United Press Correspondent Xtw York T? The popular record industry is grown mm going steady with the teenage 'set". It's '"payola" and pony tails, new sounds and sideburns; guitars and gimmicks. It's a song-in-your heart, tear-in-your-eye, knife in-the-back business. And it's whirling along on a three-SDeed turntahlp maHp nmh. bly by double-dealing and double ! entendre. The people in the business are nervous because the competi tion is so fierce. In days of old, hit records were the private property of a few major labels such as Colum bia, R.C.A. Victor, Decca. A survey of this year's crops of hit records by Billboard mag azine shows that 63 of the 131 hits come from smaller, inde pendent labels. The survey also found that 60 per cent of the hits were rock 'n roll numbers. There are about 1,600 dif ferent labels around, but most are one-shot affairs. Basically, the music melon is carved up among 75 to 100 companies, with the independent, or "indie" get ting half. Retail record sales last year totaled S325 million. A S400 million year isn't far off The Secret The secret of making money in the record business is to get disk jockeys to play your re leases and teen-agers, mostly girls, to buy them at 89 cents a copy. With about seven or eight thousand recordings releas ed in a year and only about 150 aestinea ior success, you can imagine the position some of our 10,000 disk jockeys are in. They're the kings. How does a song get recorded? A publisher brings in a bunch of tunes to a company's artist and repertoire director, the fellow who picks the songs for his art ists. Generally, if an A-and-R man picks one hit out of 100, he's happy.? To help him make up his mind, a publisher may mention that he's prepared to spend $15,000 to plug a certain song. Or the publisher may agree to take less than his full two-cent-a-record royalty. Or he agrees to share the expense of the record session. This is the cost-operative angle. Often, a publisher makes the record on his own and hopes to sell it to a large -company. Big record companies seldom lose money on a single release because they can deduct from the artist's royalties the cost of the record session. There also are instances where a publisher "cuts in" an A-and-R man on the profits. But there is a solid core of truth to the statement that an A-and-R man will not put out a record unless he has some confidence in it. After all, his job is at stake. Promotion Job After the record is made and released, the promotion job be gins. Publishers send out song pluggers to key cities such as Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland to romance the disk jockeys. One plugger said: "I get $400 a week. Two hundred for me. Two hundred to spend on disk Jockeys." Record companies send their artists out on the disk jockey circuit in the hope that free public appearances will boost air exposure of the record. Recently, a Phildelphia disk jockey was indicted for neglect ing to include a total of S20,000 income over a five year period on his tax reports. Some dee jays are on record company payrolls as talent scouts. Some bluntly stick their hands out when a promotion man comes to visit. Does the payola work? A dee jay can guarantee plugs on his show, but he can't guarantee sales. That's up to the public. Thus the trade axiom: "Money BORROW THE American Way LOANS $25 to $1,500 Auto Salary Furniture Amorioan Finance Corp. Phone SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford fn Lesson lm Worth Jpf Knowing f can't buv a hit" " 1 DU.f. , . Competition being what it is, songwriters surrender without a fight when a top recording artist insists upon publishing the song he is to record. Some even list themselves as co - composers. They collect royalties three ways. As for rock 'n roll, the com panies are still with it because it still sells. But more ballads arc coming out and fewer peo ple in the business think you're crazy if you record one. Every one in the trade seems happy about this- The industry, gen erally, follows what it considers to be the trend. As one A-and-R JACKSONVILLE Visitors At Clemmer Home By BETTE HOSKINS Jacksonville Mrs. Eva Eld ridge and two daughters, Darcy and Billie Jean, of Hanford, Calif., have been visitors at the home of Mrs. Eldridge's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clemmer. Mrs. Eldridge, a former resident here, is now a police woman with the Hanford police de partment. While here Mrs. Eldridge vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Dean Lewis on the Applegate, Mr. and Mrs. Vance Adams at Klamath Falls, and Mrs. Elsie Elrod in Medford, as well as many other friends in the valley. A turkey dinner was held last Sunday at the Clemmer home before Mrs. Eld ridge left for Hanford. Guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCormick and children, of Medford, Barbara and Charlene McCormick and Joann Kimberell, of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clemmer and family, of Central Point, and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Lewis of the Applegate. Harvey Fredricks of Hanford has also been a guest at the Clemmer home. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Hoddor of Oakland, Calif., were Monday afternoon visitors at the home of Mrs. Ida Wright. The Hod dors have been guests this week at the home of Mrs. Hoddor's sister, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Pur cell, in Medford. Tom Dunnington is recover ing from recent surgery at the Stanford University hospital in San Francisco and should soon be home. Recent visitors at the home of Mrs. Helen Maples was her daughter, Mrs. Jean Archer, and two children, Dixie and Butch of Huntington Beach, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wil kinson of Mom's Hide-Away Cafe and Bar took a fishing trip recently to Winchester Bay, Ore. They were accompanied by their son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wilkinson and their son of Medford. Their "catch" included five large salmon. En route home they stopped at Sutherlin, Ore., and visited the cemetery there, where all of Mrs. Wilkinson's folks are buried. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wil kinson last Sunday closed their cafe and were host and hostess at a potluck picnic at TouVelle park. About 200 friends attend ed during the day The picnic was also given in honor of the Wilkinson's grandson, Larry, on his 15th birthday. Birthday re freshments were included on the menu. Entertainment was provided by Ted and Calvin Seggerman, who played guitars and sang. Bill Hancock of Gold Hill also sang requested cowboy songs. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson ex pressed their thanks to the many local distributors who helped make the event possible. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Arnold re port that they are still operating the Jacksonville Seed and Feed store, with Phil Phelps assisting as clerk. Mrs. Peggy Eaton, former Jacksonville resident, now of San Francisco, has been a visi- I tor here for a few days. While i here she spent some time at the Election Declared j 'Rigged' (or Hoffa Pontiac, Mich OPi A group i of Pontiac Teamsters Local 614 members charged today the lo ! cal's election for delegates to the j Miami Beach convention was i "rigged" in favor of James R. ! Hoffa. I A leader of the dissident fac tion said 50 affidavits, signed by local members, was sent to a New York Teamsters group for presentation at the convention showing that "we don't even know who the delegates are and how and when they were elect- ed." The local has been under Hof I fa's trusteeship since October, j 1953. The spokesman, who re i fused to identify himself, said nearly 2,000 of the 3.000 mem i bers are anti-Hoffa and have been trying for a 'clean" elec i tion since Hoffa assumed con Itrol. The spokesman also said one of the dissident faction was sub poenaed to appear before the Senate Labor Rackets Investi-1 lems not just talk about buy gating Committee in Washington. ' ing and selling them. man said: "If I'm in the shirt business and everybody's buying red shirts, I'll make red shirts." The "million seller" record is a Dig item in the business, even though it is often a myth. There's a difference between distribut ing a million recrods and selling a million. But the ' labels often choose to overlook this. The artist who is honored with a "gold record" for a million copy hit usually stops smiling when he reads his royalty state ment and finds he's credited with a half-million or so. Still, he'll keep that gold-plated rec ords. It's as important as Holly wood's "Oscar" to him. home of Mrs. Mable McCullie and at the Byron Sanford home on the Applegate as well as vis iting all her many friends in Jacksonville. She left by bus Wednesday for Eugene, where she will visit a sister before re turning to San Francisco. Also a visitor at the McCullie home is Mrs. McCullie's son, W L. McCullie, of Sweet Home, Ore., who is here for a weeks visit. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tobison sold their home at East Eight st and have moved to the Apple gate. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Dor- sey and four children have moved into the house. Remodeling Done In City Department Completion of the remodeling program in the water depart ment offices was confirmed to day by Water Superintendent Robert L. Lee. He said the program was planned in June, 1956 and was completed on Monday this week with the construction of a separ ation wall in the department's offices at city hall. The separa tion is to provide a section to in stall the- billing, addressograph and grafotype machines and to lower the noise level. The bil ling department has also long needed a place to keep its equip ment in a central unit, he added. Starting the first of October water bills for the West side on flat rate will be on postcards, he said. Lee said also that east side flat rate users will be receiving postcard bills on Nov. 1. He said that this would com plete the post card billing sys tem for the department as all metered water users begin re ceiving their bills on the cards on June 1. Liberals Gain 36 Seats in Honduras Tegucigalpa, Honduras (W The opposition Liberal Party captured 36 of the 58 seats in the Constituent Assembly, according to latest official returns today from Sunday's elections. The total was just two seats short of an absolute two-thirds majority in the assembly which is scheduled to convene Oct. 21 to draft a new constitution. It is empowered also to elect a new president, if it so desires. Returns from 12 of 18 de partments in Honduras gave the Nationalist Party 18 seats and the National Reform Movement four. Four persons were killed in gun-fights during the elections. 'Charleston' Test Postponed in Nevada Las Vegas, Nev. IPV The Atomic Energy Commission Monday night announced a 24 hour postponement in its "Charleston" nuclear shot be cause of radioactive contamina tion from a previous test at the Nevada proving grounds. Scientists have rescheduled "Charleston," the 23rd and next-to-last shot of the series, for 1:30 a.m. (p.s.t.) Wednesday. The bomb will be triggered from a balloon, 1,500 feet above the desert and have a force of more than 20,000 tons of TNT. CONFAB PLAN REJECTED Athens, Greece HP Greece has turned down Communist Ro mania's proposal for a confer ence of Balkan states to strengthen peace and ' increase Balkan cooperation, it was an nounced today. Informed sources said a Greek note explained Greece was unable to partici pate because it has serious prob lems pending with Bulgaria and Albania, and because of its Western alliances. Romania had proposed a six-nation conference with pro-Western Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania. Chicago fl? An apple a day can keep the doctor away apparently it can also help Johnrfy pass subtraction.. Maur ice Hartung, University of Chi cago education professor, says grade school pupils should use real apples in mathematics prob- Police and Families To Get Inoculations Medford police officers and their families will receive their second shot in the polio series to day. The program is "signup" basis and all costs will be paid by the individual. The shots will be given at the county health department. Last Victims of Pennsylvania Mine Explosion Removed Brownsville, Pa. HP) The bodies of the last two of five victims of a violent explosion 500 feet below the earth's sur face were brought up late Mon day night from the depths of a soft coal pit. Workers identified the bodies as those of Joseph Smith and Stanley Collins, both of Marian na, a small community 30 miles from Pittsburgh where the vio lent sub-surface blast occurred early Monday. Three other bod ies were recovered earlier. Federal and state mine inspec tors opened investigations today into the cause of the explosion. State Mine Inspector A. J. Narn refused to speculate on what touched off the tremendous blast. Eleven Men Trapped Eleven workers were trapped in the soft coal pit. All but two were foremen or supervisory personnel who had gone into the shaft to repair a faulty fan. Because of the faulty fan, which caused poor ventilation, the mine was closed for the day. Otherwise, more than 200 miners would have reported to work on the 7 a.m. shift. The blast oc curred at 7:10. It blew a con crete block structure on the sur face to pieces. The mine elevator, used to carry miners into the pit, was also torn loose. Debris was toss ed more than 20 feet into the air on the surface by force of the blast. Week End Visit To Satellite Predicted Hartford, Conn. OPI Col. John P. Stapp predicted today that before the end of the cen tury you'll be able to make a week end visit to a satellite. Stapp, who made history three years ago by riding a rocket sled at 632 miles an hour, said he's more interested now in distance than speed. He described recent mcnts which sent Maj. David G. Simons 100,000 feet aloft during a 32-hour period. "Our flying laboratory show ed that man can live above the earth's atmosphere for relatively long periods," he said. "Before the century's end we'll be able to week end there, possibly on one of the earth's satellites." The Air Force colonel came here to address the American Rocket Society. Worker Electrocuted On Job Near Salem Salem (IP) A Salem man was electrocuted Monday when a crane touched a power line on the Pudding river near the com munity of Pratum. Victim of the accident was Howard L. Ivey, 36, an employee of the Salem Sand & Gravel Co. Ivey, an oiler, apparently stepped off the crane and was on the ground next to it when the crane's boom touched the power line. He was dead when ambu lance attendants arrived. Airport Lights Bids Set For Spring, 1958 City manager Robert A. Duff reported Monday that bids on the contract for installing the new airport lights will be an nounced in early spring of 1958. He said that under the current timetable set up, the consulting engineer would have his plans complete to present to the CAA in the next few weeks. COLONEL FACES DEATH Seoul, Korea (IP) Republic of Korea Army Col. Huh Hai Yung goes before a firing squad at Taegu today for taking part in the 1956 assassination of army intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Jim Chang Yong. Huh's driver, Sgt. Lee Yiu Hoe, also was to be exe cuted. Lee drove the getaway jeep after the killing stemming from a feud among top South Korean army officers. In all, 13 persons were arrested and con vited of complicity in the plot. ANTHROPOLOGIST "DIES Berkeley, Calif. (IP) Dr. Rob ert H. Lowie, 74, noted anthro pologist and authority on North and South American Indians, died Saturday. Husbands! Wives! 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MEMORIAL TOUR PLANNED Ventimiglia, Italy OP) Famed British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham said today he would make a world tour to per form the works of his late friend, Finnish composer Jan Si belius, who died last Friday. Beecham disclosed no details of the tour. SPECIAL Pound Bundles of LEATHER Oil Tanned Leather Pieces, Strips and Strings. REG. 60c 45 t SPECIAL 6 DAYS ONLY VALUE dinhi AilXMASTER JUNIOR Now Available in 6 Beautiful Colors! NOW $3.00 LESS Now Only ' SPECIAL Unbreakable PAILS Republic Polly Flex, Polyethylene Pail. Can't break, can't rust. Even use as milk pail. Eleven quart ca pacity. REG. $2.98 $179 Time U "TINY BABE" 2,000 Pound Capacity HOIST Weighs only 15 ounces and can be carried in a pocket. 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