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Stogels Music Firms Expanding; Pair To Head Coast TV-Pic Packaging Unit
NEW YORK—Leonard & Myrna Stogel’s varied music operations are set
for expansion, a key point of which will be the establishment of a west
coast office in September.
This move will take the Stogels to the coast on a permanent basis. There, Leonard Stogel said, the company
plans to enter the world of TV packaging, search for new talent and engage its present line-up of disk performers in film work. This includes
Sam the Sham, Tommy James & the
Shondells.
Meanwhile on the east coast, the
operation will also expand its activities, under Zach Glickman, executive
vp of the Stogel set-up. New York will remain the homebase of such divisions
as Leonard Stogel Management, several publishing firms, including Abestal Music and Cowsills Music
(the Cowsills are a Stogel-managed act) Gregg-Yale Productions, responsible for Cowsills disks, and Heroic
Age, a publicity company formed a
year ago. Latter unit, originally designed
to serve only Stogel performers,
is now taking on outside accounts,
the first of whom is iScott Walker,
heard on the Philips label. Janice Murray
runs HA.
Other acts managed by Stogel include
Jim & Jean, Captain Beefheart’s
Magic Band, Keith and the Royal
Guardsmen. Four of the acts have received
RIAA-certified singles.
Glickman, who also arranges bookings
for the Stogel stable, said that
the company would arrange new merchandising
tie-ins ala the Cowsills’
deal with ILAMI, the merchandising
arm of Columbia Pictures. However,
he said that future arrangements
would not necessarily involve ILAMI.
Due for release this week is a new
Cowsills single on MGM, “Indian
Lake,” first date by the group produced
by Wes Farrell.
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