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<br /> gross was $640,184 Top grosser for including more than 50 in the Los Angeles
<br /> the month, however, was ZZ Top and Jimmie area Wherehouse Entertainment had
<br /> Barnes at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena on 16% rise in net income for 7 months of •
<br /> Apri1. 9-11 when 3 sellouts brought $657,771 newly-structured fiscal year. Strong
<br /> and audience of 43,107. video rentals and compact disk sales
<br /> * * * * * * * * helped boost January's revenues 43% to
<br /> $16.5 million.
<br /> The Oak Ridge Boys had two sets of concerts * * * * * * * *
<br /> with two different opening acts. In Salt Country music industry reps continue the
<br /> Lake City's Salt Palace April 3, and at promotional push that began last year. A
<br /> the Boise (Ida.) State University Pavilion series of workshops on marketing begin
<br /> April 4, the Southern Pacific Group and next month in Charlotte (NC) , followed by
<br /> Dan Seals opened. Gross at Salt Lake was San Francisco in July, Chicago in August,
<br /> $133,056 though house of 8,752 was short and Dallas in September. Country artists
<br /> j of 12,000 possible. The Forester Sisters have increased their tours abroad, board
<br /> I opened for the Oak Ridge Boys April 11 and members of the Country Music Assn. were
<br /> 12 when they appeared at Kellogg Center in informed at their last month; Australia
<br /> Battle Creek, Mich. (sellout on 5,241 was has put its second fulltime country music
<br /> I $81,695) and at Rockford (I11.L MetroCen- station on the air and ratings increased
<br /> tre. House of 6,237 grossed $74,647 50% since the switch in December.
<br /> 1 - The All-American Country Games will be
<br /> held at Vanderbilt Stadium June 11; for
<br /> M U SI CRECORDS & TAPES
<br /> , the "Fan Fair" in the fall, a record of
<br /> I more than 17,000 people have registered
<br /> through April.
<br /> Radio programmers may hold a key to the * * * * * * * *
<br /> I future directions of music/records, organ- .
<br /> izers of the "New Music Seminar" in July As country music struggles to regain top
<br /> anticipate. Videos and MTV are viewed as prominence in traditional markets, and
<br /> having peaked, and the number of related "New Music" looks ahead, PUNK celebrates
<br /> 1 panel discussions has been cut back to its 10th anniversary rather quietly. It
<br /> two, VarieU. notes. The two keynote doesn't have much "commercial clout," but
<br /> speakers will be from radio and from the punk rock is credited with speeding up
<br /> recording indust::y. Independents form a the tempos of mainstream rock, and gave
<br /> heavy percentage in the seminar; they're "rough edges" a good name. Punk also
<br /> seen as "farm clubs" for the major sta- ');made waves outside of music (NY Times) :
<br /> tions and for record companies, which ,lin visual arts and in fashion.
<br /> jdon't make money unless a record sells
<br /> 50,000 copies or more. Dates in NY are Ik also has produced an explosion in
<br /> ' July 13-16. db-it-yourself music and bands and rec-
<br /> * * * * * * * * ords. Option magazine (c/o Sonic Opera-
<br /> j Record Bar will have 125 stores left, but tions Network, Box 491034, Los Angeles
<br /> none in the Licorice Pizza subsidiary 90029) reviews hundreds of,alby� d
<br /> cassettes; artists such as Madonna,,
<br /> which are being sold to Musicland Group U2,
<br /> for about $13 million. Record Bar plans Prince, Van Helen, Cyndi Lauper, Duran
<br /> to expand again, but will have no stores Duran owe sound and image. bows to punk.
<br /> in the West or Midwest. Musicland now Pure punk has gotten punkier,
<br /> will have more than 500 stores nationally, *. * *> * * * * *
<br /> Leisurekdmiigest
<br /> Marj Jensen, Editor (202) 232-7107 " US. '�
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