>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:03:26 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: The Blue Chip Radio Report 3/22/99 > > > THE BLUE CHIP RADIO REPORT > News, Charts, Show Prep, Sales Info > > March 22, 1999 > Bill Miller > Editor & Publisher > > > The Blue Chip Radio Report is a free weekly newsletter for people in the >radio and music industries. To add your name to our e-mailing list, or to >remove your name, send your request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! > > > The Blue Chip Song of the Week: "From The Inside out" by Linda Davis. >Writers: Marc Beeson and Angela Kaset. Produced by James Stroud and Julian >King. Label: Dreamworks Nashville. Davis drops the Celine Dion copycat act >for a more interpretive sound. Nice steel guitar and a fresh lyrical approach >to a classic theme. > > > George Jones was dismissed from the Vanderbilt hospital in Nashville on >Friday. Jones rode home on his tour bus. > > > As Garth Brooks' masterfully markets Garth Brooks with the express, >written consent of Major League Baseball, his pop (as opposed to country) >album for Capitol is being readied for the Garth Brooks market. The initial >release date, May 4th, has been been scuttled. The album will likely be >released in June or July, according to Billboard. > Meanwhile, keen Brooks' observer Steve Wariner has jumped on the baseball >cross-promotional bandwagon. For every strikeout thrown by New York Mets >reliever Turk Wendell (pronounced Wen-DELL) this summer, Wariner and Wendell >will each contribute $ 100 to Garth's Touch 'Em All Foundation. > > > Some radio researchers are discovering that Faith Hill's "This Kiss" was >played more by non-country stations than country stations. > If that's true, then should sales of the recording be tallied as >"country" or "pop"? Should they be apportioned between formats (with country >getting the smaller percentage)? > Does that make the song a bigger country hit or lesser country hit? > > > Willie Nelson guests on Howard Stern's TV show on the E! entertainment >channel, March 29th and 30th. Willie may be too quick for Howard. > > > Jeff Foxworthy will join the crowded field of national countdown radio >hosts. The Foxworthy Countdown debuts next month. > By the way, you might be a redneck if you can't countdown from 20. > > > New York City will be the site of "An All-Star Tribute To Johnny Cash" on >April 6th. The program will be recorded for playback on Turner Network >Television (TNT) on April 18th. > > > 32 years ago this month, Porter Wagoner had a # 2 chart hit with a >classic country tune called "The Cold Hard Facts Of Life". It's a terrific >country song that ranks alongside "The Carroll County Accident" as my favorite >hits by the original rhinestone cowboy. > Porter has had 28 songs in Billboard's Top 10 as a recording artist. He >has owned several successful publishing companies, a profitable recording >studio, a long-running syndicated TV, and produced boucoups of hits, including >almost all of Dolly Parton's country hits. > In fact, when pretty little Miss Norma Jean decided to retire from the >business, it was Porter who saw the potential of the unknown Dolly from the >Smoky Mountains and invited her to join the cast of his TV show. The rest, as >they say, is history. > Porter will make a guest appearance at the Tennessee Songwriters >Association International weekly meeting on March 31st at Belmont University >in Nashville. Non-members are invited to attend. > For the several hundred songwriters in the Nashville area who subscribe >to this newsletter, and the hundreds of other people in the Music Business >City who also subscribe, I think the ol' Wagonmaster might have a thing or two >to say that you would find of value. > And, as Jeff Wall points out, Porter is still the best dressed man in >country music. > For more info on The Tennessee Songwriters Association International, >visit their website at http://www.ClubNashville.com/tsai.htm or call the TSAI >hotline at (615) 969-5967. > > > Nashville's ever-growing songwriters festival, Tin Pan South, is set for >April 12-17. > > > Welcome to our new subscribers, including Chris & Bev Jackson of >Americana Promotion LTD in the United Kingdom; Jim O'Hara, PD at WLLR-fm in >the Quad Cities IL/IA; Capt. Billy Anderson from the morning show at KPAN in >Hereford TX; Bjorne Hesselbjerggaard with Radio Sindal in Denmark; and Jaye >Albright. > > > John Fogerty plans to keep on chooglin' in the music business city. >According to Brad Schmitt at The Tennessean, Fogerty's pulling $ 3.6 million >out of his personal green river to purchase a 110-acre spread with an 11,000 >square foot mansion suburban Williamson County. > > > Sara Evans' first child is due in August. Before the birth, the singer >plans to participate on some stops of the 1999 Lilith Fair schedule. > > > Hank Williams, Jr. will not tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd as originally >planned. Official explanation has to do with Skynyrd's Johnny Van Zant >having throat problems. >Hank has reportedly finished an album that's due to be released on Curb >Records later this year. > > > Look for a showcase of LeAnn Rimes' new California home in the latest >issue of Style magazine. > > > Trisha Yearwood's "Follow The Wind" will be on the soundtrack for the new >Eddie Murphy film, "Life". The song, written by R & B stalwart R. Kelly, >won't appear in the movie, though. > > > Alison Krauss will have a cut on the soundtrack for the film "The Other >Sister". > > > Pam Tillis received a standing ovation last Tuesday in her Broadway >debut. Pam performs several 1950's rock classics in the hit musical "Smokey >Joe's Cafe". > > > Dwight Yoakam will appear in an upcoming TV commercial for Gap. He'll be >singing Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". > > > David Kersh, who needs a hit, will appear in the July issue of Playgirl >magazine. Reports say that David's only clothing at the photo shoot was his >strategically located cowboy hat. > I'm not knocking David Kersh, but did Haggard have to take his clothes >off to become a star? > Come to think of it, publicists used to talk about country artists' MUSIC >in their promotional materials, but MUSIC is hardly mentioned anymore. These >days, the publicity is about shake-and-howdy photo ops, TV guest shots, which >fading rocker wrote the song, cute details about the making of the video, >puffery about a movie soundtrack that carries the artists' one track (usually >not included in the actual film that hits the theatres). > I miss the songs. > > > Speaking of The Hag, he plans to release two albums in the immediate >future, according to Larry Rodgers in The Arizona Republic. One will be an >album of gospel duets with the great Albert E. Brumley and tentatively titled >"Cabin In The Hills". The other will be a commercial country album. >Haggard's last new album release was 3 years ago. > > > And whatever happened to Cal Smith? > > > TWANG T.V.: > > > 3/23...........Trace Adkins hosts "The Road To Stardom", TNN > 3/23...........Barbara Mandrell on "Howie Mandell" > 3/27...........Bill Anderson, Martha Carson, Del Reeves and Margo >Smith on "Country's Family Reunion: Gospel", TNN > 3/29...........Willie Nelson on "Howard Stern", E! > 3/30...........Willie Nelson on "Howard Stern", E! > 3/30..........."The Life and Times of Conway Twitty", TNN > 3/31..........."Century of Country" (Pt. 1 of 13), TNN > > >* Check local listings for all shows, especially syndicated programs and >"Austin City Limits". Special thanks to Katie Pruett at SuperStar Country >KYNG/fm in Dallas/Ft. Worth TX and her work on the station's website, >http://www.superstarcountry.com , a source for many of the Twang TV listings. > > > CROOK & CHASE musical guests: (afternoon shows repeat the next >morning) > > > 3/22........Kenny Chesney, Tareva Henderson > 3/23........John Tesh > 3/24........Lee Greenwood, Tareva Henderson > 3/25........Johnny Russell > 3/26........Freddy Fender > > > TNN PRIME TIME COUNTRY musical guests: > > 3/22.......Jessica Andrews, Blackhawk > 3/23.......Diamon Rio > 3/24.......Dolly Parton > 3/25.......Martina McBride, Mindy McCready, Sara Evans > > > THE BLUE CHIP ADULT COUNTRY CHART (25-49 demographics) > 3/22/99 > > >LW TW Title Artist >----- ----- ------- -------- > > 2 1 You Were Mine . . . . . . . . . . .Dixie Chicks > 5 2 How Forever Feels . . . . . . . . Kenny Chesney > 6 3 I'll Think Of A Reason Later . ..Lee Ann Womack > 3 4 Busy Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Billy Ray Cyrus > 4 5 Meanwhile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Strait > > 7 6 Gone Crazy . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Jackson > 1 7 Powerful Thing . . . . . . . . . . ..Trisha Yearwood > 8 8 Ordinary Life . . . . . . . . . . . .. Chad Brock >10 9 I Can't Get Over You . . . . . . ..Brooks & Dunn >13 10 Wish You Were Here . . . . . .. Mark Wills > >11 11 Keepin' Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alabama >12 12 Love Ain't Like That . . . . . . . .Faith Hill >14 13 You Won't Ever Be Lonely . . .Andy Griggs >17 14 Anyone Else . . . . . . . . . . . . Collin Raye >15 15 Hands Of A Working Man . . ..Ty Herndon > >18 16 Don't Come Crying To Me . . . Vince Gill >19 17 Everytime I Cry . . . . . . . . . . Terri Clark >20 18 Can't Get Enough . . . . . . . . . Patty Loveless >21 19 I'm Leaving . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Aaron Tippin >24 20 Two Teardrops . . . . . . . . . . ..Steve Wariner > >22 21 What's The Matter..... . . . . .. Claudia Church >25 22 Drive Me Wild . . . . . . . . . . . .Sawyer Brown > 9 23 No Place That Far . . . . . . . ...Sara Evans >26 24 Maybe Not Tonight . . . . . . . ..Sammy Kershaw & Lorrie Morgan >27 25 You Don't Need Me Now . ... . Clint Black > >29 26 Your Own Little Corner . . . . . .Blackhawk >28 27 Better Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Warren Bros. >31 28 With You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Lila McCann >30 29 Hillbilly Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . Montgomery Gentry >16 30 I Don't Want To Miss...... . . .. Mark Chesnutt > >35 31 Stranger In My Mirror . . . . . . Randy Travis >23 32 Hold On To Me . . . . . . . . . . .J. M. Montgomery >*** 33 Please Remember Me . . . . . Tim McGraw >34 34 Say Anthing . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shane McAnally >36 35 I Was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Neal McCoy > >37 36 I Will Be There For You . . . . Jessica Andrews >38 37 She's Always Right . . . . . . . Clay Walker >*** 38 A Night To Remember . . . . . Joe Diffie >39 39 If A Man Answers . . . . . . . . Toby Keith >*** 40 Man! I Feel Like A Woman . .Shania Twain > > >DROPPED: The Kinleys, Tim McGraw, Diamond Rio > > > > NASH-ROCK (a.k.a "Young Country") (Teens, 18-24 demos) > > >LW TW Title Artist >----- ----- ------- -------- > > 1 1 You Were Mine . . . . . . . . . . . Dixie Chicks > 6 2 How Forever Feels . . . . . . . . ..Kenny Chesney > 2 3 Powerful Thing . . . . . . . . . . . .Trisha Yearwood > 3 4 Busy Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Billy Ray Cyrus > 4 5 Meanwhile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .George Strait > > 8 6 Wish You Were Here . . . . . . ..Mark Wills > 7 7 I Can't Get Over You . . . . . . . Brooks & Dunn >10 8 I'll Think Of A Reason Later . . .Lee Ann Womack > 9 9 Keepin' Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alabama >12 10 Ordinary Life . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chad Brock > >11 11 Love Ain't Like That . . . . . . . ..Faith Hill >13 12 Gone Crazy . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Jackson >14 13 Drive Me Wild . . . . . . . . . . . .Sawyer Brown >15 14 Every Time I Cray . . . . . . . . . Terri Clark >20 15 Please Remember Me . . . . .. Tim McGraw > >16 16 Anyone Else . . . . . . . . . . . ...Collin Raye >18 17 Can't Get Enough . . . . . . . . . Patty Loveless >19 18 Hands Of A Working Man . . . Ty Herndon >*** 19 You Won't Ever Be Lonely . ... Andy Griggs >20 20 She's Always Right . . . . . . . . Clay Walker > > >DROPPED Sara Evans > > >Letters To The Editor > >(Please indicate your permission to publish your letter online by writing >"Letter To The Editor" in the subject line of your e-mail. Letters subject to >editing. Keep 'em short and to the point. E-mail addresses will be added to >your signature unless otherwise requested) > > If you love REAL country music and want a TREAT - check out the new >single "Cold Coffee Morning" by Jon Randall. Great MALE oriented COUNTRY song >co-written by Jon and the great Bill Anderson. What a break from the male- >bashing/top-40 dance >drivel by country "babes" we've been subjected to lately. >-Ken Johnson >-Program Director >-WXTU Radio >-Philadelphia PA >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >(Re earlier newsletter item about what constitutes an "album") > ....a bit of trivia. In the days of 78s a phonograph record had one song >on each side just like the 45 RPM singles that came later. Record companies >found a demand for more than two songs on popular artists and packaged a >number of 78s bound together in one book like package with a front and back >cover. At first glance the package looked like a photograph album so the name >"Album" stuck for a collection of 78s and was carried >over for LPs even though LPs looked nothing like photograph albums. Anyone >who complains that CDs shouldn't be called albums should be reminded that >LPs were not really albums either. > I have no problem calling a place that sells CDs a record store or >calling >a collection of songs an album. >-Ronny Light >-Box 121145 >-Nashville, TN 37212 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > This is my 'promised' letter to you to address certain comments by Karen >Angela Moore with regard to 'custom' recording, or, as she prefers to call it, >'scam' recording. > As long as there has been a 'Nashville,' or a music industry, for that >matter, there has always been a 'custom' or independent recording industry. > Yes, there are bad apples in this business--and in this town--but there >are 'bad apples' in any business, be it lawyers, doctors, accountants, shop >owners, home repairmen, and even 'vanity' publications, (i.e., indie music >chart magazines and newspapers) who pass themselves off as legitimate, while >catering to--and taking advantage of--the lifelong dreams of music 'hopefuls.' > Through the years a substantial number of major 'stars,' unable to find >immediate access or acceptance by the major labels, had the foresight to >either pay for their own recordings, or seek the help of investors (often >called 'angels') who provided the financial resources for their production and >marketing. This list includes Mel Street, Earl Thomas Conley, Alabama, Toby >Keith, Clay Walker, Shania Twain, Clink Black, Tracy Lawrence, and others. > The Dixie Chicks, LeAnn Rimes, Hootie and the Blowfish, John Berry, and >rock producer Glen Ballard all paid for their own regional album releases, >which paved the way for their major label successes. Even Elvis paid for his >first Sun Records demo session. > 'Alabama' was a 'custom' recording project backed by an 'angel' named >Larry McBride. He believed in the group when the Nashville 'establishment,' >radio, and GRT Records, turned a deaf ear after their first release. Larry >then hired Harold Shedd to do a brilliant production job, and hired several >indie promo guys, created a label, MDJ, and put the product out on his own, >bucking the 'odds' but knowing that the group was unique. > But that is only half the story. What some people fail to realize is: >these 'wannabe's' are bound and determined to record, as they have been >virtually shut off from major label access because of the 'good ole boy' >mentality of the industry, and the reluctance of many labels to audition new >talent, or even accept tapes from new talent. Add to this 'closed door' >policy the current thinking that if you're over 30, or don't look great in a >tight pair of 28' Levi's and a cowboy hat, you have no place on a major label >roster. > Had this absurd reasoning prevailed in the 1950's, its doubtful that Roy >Oribison, Buddy Holly and Patsy Cline would have been signed to a record deal. >What? Sign some 'geeks' in horn rimmed classes, or an overweight housewife >from Madison, TN? Never! Fortunately for us all, 'talent,' ---not 'marketing >potential' and ProTools--- meant something back then. Not only did Steve >Shoals, Chet Atkins, Don Law, Fred Rose, Ken Nelson, Archie Blyer, and other >label heads take chances on new and deserving talent, but music directors and >pds let their 'gut' instincts and 'ears' be their guide, not some high paid >consultant 1,500 miles away. > While the Musician's Union, the major label power brokers, the >(Nashville) Tennessean, and '60 Minutes' bemoan the 'rip off' artists, they do >little to discourage anyone from taking this path. In fact, by their lack of >alternatives, they actually encourage it. > Oh, yes, while I took the time to mention a few of the 'stars' who gained >success by going the indie custom 'scam' route, why not throw in a few >producers who've made more than their share of money off of 'vanity' >recording: Paul Worley, James Stroud, Mark Wright, Clyde Brooks, Jimmy Bowen, >Chuck Howard, Harold Shedd, Larry Butler, Barry Beckett and numerous others. >While these outstanding producers, and friends, are by no means, 'scam' >artists, they did little to discourage singers from spending hard earned money >to have their fifteen minutes of fame in the studios of 'Music Row.' > Country music is a $4 billion dollar industry. It has grown from five >labels to twenty-five labels in less than fifteen years. That does not >include the hundreds of 'custom' labels that will press and mail your product >for a fee. Like producers, musicians, background singers, studios, engineers, >and others, there is an entire 'cottage' industry that always has, and always >will, thrive around the fringes of the music business. > While 'wannabe's' need to be extremely cautious, 'shop around,' and know >exactly what they are up against--as to quality production, indie promotion, >marketing and distribution, they certainly have the right to pursue their >dream--particularly since 'Music Row' has proven that they are slow to react >to the demand of the consumer for new talent, prefer 'formula' acts over >individuality, and use 'cookie cutter' recording methods as opposed to >creating new sounds. We can only hope, that as in the past, 'cream will rise >to the top' by whatever means it takes to get there. >-Fred Vail, Pres./CEO >-Debut Artists Group >-(615) 297-1085 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Blue Chip Communications produces great-sounding, easy-to-sell radio features! > > >The Blue Chip Radio Report is a copyrighted feature of Blue Chip >Communications, All Rights Reserved. (c) Bill Miller, Blue Chip >Communications. Please note our new address for promotional materials: >PO Box 116, Delano TN 37325 (include your e-mail address if you'd like a >response). E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe or unsubscribe to this >mailing list. If a man stands in the middle of the forest speaking and there >is no woman around to hear him....is he still wrong? > > Jeff Wall http://www.twangzine.com The Webs least sucky music magazine 3421 Daisy Crescent - Va Beach, Va - 23456
