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February 10, 1968
Cash Box Magazine
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Cashbox Top 100
#20 We Can Fly - Cowsills MGM 13886
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Vital Statistics
#20
WE CAN FLY (2:13) The Cowsills-MGM 13886
1350 Ave of the Americas, NYC.
PROD: Biill & Bob Cowsill c/o Akbestal
PUB: Akbestal BMI 888 8th Ave, NYC.
WRITERS. Bill & Bob Cowsill-A Kornfield-S. Duboff
ARR: Artie Schroeck FLIP: A Time For Remembrance
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THEY CAN FLY – The Cowsills, MGM’s big singing family, pause just prior to leaving JFK for a singing tour of Europe. They are set for a featured shot at the San Remo Song Festival. The floral airplane inscribed with the name of their latest deck, “We Can Fly,” is a bon voyage gift from Ed Sullivan.
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Album Review
WE CAN FLY—Cowsills—MGM E/SE 4534
Titled after their current single hit, the sunshine-
filled rocker, “We Can Fly,” the Coovsill’s
latest album is a sure bet to become a hit in its
own right. Bill and Bob Cowsill did production
chores for the set, and they have come up with
eleven groovy numbers, most of which they had
large part in writing. Put this one high on your
“must” list.
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Top 100 Albums
#50 The Cowsills (MGM E/ES 4498)
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MFM Hosts London Tape Meet
LONDON — The first tape conference
held in London was conducted by
MGM Records with co-hosts ITCC and
Ampex, and Philips of Holland as
guests.
. . .
Nasatir Remarks
Opening the speeches Mort Nasatir,
president of MGM Records, said the
London meet “gave the chance to Locus
on the international aspects of tape”.
It hinted, at least, that 1968 will be
what Nasatir termed a “banner year
in tape production”. Mel Price, M(IM’s
chief tape executive, noted that all
Metro product was available in all
tape configurations (though not all
through the same company). One of
the chores this trip involved for Price
was negotiations for the placement of
tape catalog abroad. And although
there is plenty of handsome coin to be
picked up by European licensing deals.
Price has had to weigh carefully the
respective merits of competing systems.
It would appear at first glance
that the cassette is the dominant factor
in Europe, but 4-Track and 8-
Track are making inroads. One of the
things underlined by the MGM presentation—
during which Price unveiled
his product for 1968 including new
material from The Cowsills, Sandy
Posey, Cal Tjader, Johnny Smith
Wayne Newton, Oscar Peterson, The
Stonemans, Johnny Tillotson, Arthur
Prysock, The Velvet Underground,
The Righteous Brothers, Eric Burdon,
The Lovin’ Spoonful and others—was
the final revelation that the days are
over when pre-recorded tape is marketed
as a device to sell tape recorders.
Testimony to the volume of business
that can now be achieved through tape
lay in the three awards for salesmanship
handed out by Price. First went
to Dick Godlewski of Eastern Record
Distributors, East Hartford, Connecticut;
second to Dennis Laventhal, Consolidated
Distributors, Seattle, and
third to Bill Burton of B & K Distributors,
Dallas.
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Argentina's Best Sellers
#9 The Park, Tlhe Rain and Other Things The Cowsills (Phillips)
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Australia's Best Sellers
#4 The Park, Tlhe Rain and Other Things (The Cowsills MGM)
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PhonoVue Has 4-Tops, Cowsills, 1910 Fruitgum Co. On Latest
WHIPPANY, N. J. — George Klersey,
director of the Rowe AMI PhonoVue/
record pairings service for operators
of the AMI Music Merchant/
PhonoVue. The new matches are for
the week ending February 10, 1968.
“We Can Fly” by The Cowsills on
MGM is matched with “Harem Slave
Girl” (L-2912E), “The Body” (L-
2911T) and “Montmartre Les Girls
#1” (L-2906C).
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