Record Production Cut
NEW YORK-The recording industry,
on the threshold of the greatest year in its
history, was dealt a severe blow by the War
Production Board on April 14th when an
order was issued limiting the disc makers
to 30 per cent of last year's consumption of
shellac.
Shellac, imported almost entirely from
India, is needed vitally by the Navy and
the merchant marine as a barnacle· resistant
underwater paint.
Despite the apparent seriousness of the
situation record officials feel there is no
cause for undue alarm for there are several
methods by which record production can be
stepped up and still comply with the WPB
order. Already a program of reclamation
has been launched. In the last three years
over 250,000,000 records have been sold
and wi th an exchange plan on records such
as is being used on toothpaste tubes, it is
entirely possible that record production can
be up to 60 per cent of normal within a
few months.
Victor led the reclamation parade by an·
nouncing that one record must be turned in
for each new record purchased by music
operators and one record for every three
purchased by music stores. These scrap
records are credi'ted to the operator's ac -
count. Decca followed with a one for three
arrangement for both operators and dealers
and at presstime no set policy had been
announced by Columbia.
Reduction in number of records to b e
made meant a reshuffling of artists and the
elimination of the cheaper records. Victor
cut the number of 35c Bluebirds to the
bone, Decca transferred a number of its
35c artists to the new 50c label and Colum-
bia abandoned the 35c Okeh series entirely.
Consensus of opinion amongst operators
seems to be that the reduction in releases.
will have a stimulating effect on business
for on ly proven tunes will now be placed on
the discs and the operators will not have to
sift a lot of poor numbers from each
month's purchases to keep a hit program on
the turn tables.
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Approximafely
$50 ,000 changed
hands when Golden
Gafe Novelfy fook
over Wolf Sales Co.'s
San Francisco busi-
ness. Seafed are A I
Armos of Golden
Gafe and Wolf Rei-
wifz of Wolf Sales.
Sfanding is AI H in -
ley of Golden Gate:
Ch i ck Rob e ,fs of
Wolf Sales, and af-
forneys Dinesfein and
Sugarman.
Golden Gate Buys' Wolf Union Plans Phono. Rap
SAN FRANCISCO- Announcement was
made here the first of the month that the
Golden Gate Novelty Co. had purchased
the stock and good-will of the Wolf Sales
Co., I nc., and would henceforth handle the
sale of Wurlitzer equipment in the northern
California area.
In announcing the closing of the San
Francisco office, Wolf Reiwitz, h ead of
Wolf Sales, said : "Weare closing our office
here and have disposed of our equipment to
the Golden Gate Novelty Co. My son Chick,
who has been in charge of this office, and
my other son, AI, who has been managing
the Denver office, intend to join the Armed
Forces. I will continue the Denver office and
handle the sale of Wurlitzers in Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and
eastern Idaho.
"In closing our San Francisco office I
want to thank all of our friends and cus-
tomers who patronized us so liberally and
made it possible for us to build one of the
largest dis tributing organizations in the bay
area . "
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LOS ANGELES-A group of local union
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musicians known as the "Sub-Committee on
Records and Transcriptions" plan to carry ~
a fight to the floor of the next American
Federation of Musicians conven tion to see
why radio stations and coin machine op-
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erators should be permitted unrestricted
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use of phonograph records for commercial
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purposes without paying royalties to mu-
sicians who made the records ostensibly for
home use only.
Leaders of the group, who make no bones
of th e fact that they believe AFM officials
have been asleep at the switch on this deal
for years, have introduced a tentative plan
calling for collection of royalties for the
c'o mmercial usage of recordings. Collections
would be distributed among the performers
according to ratings after the ASCAP man-
ner and also among unemployed musicians.
At past AFM conventions the same propo-
sition has been discussed time and time
again and it seems very unlikely that the
local committee will be able to push the
matter ahead any further than it has been
at past conventions although the local com-
mittee feels certain of success this time.
Wurlifzer Mus ic Merchanf Floyd Knudson of Fresno made fhis insfallafion af fhe Towne C lub,
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