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COI N
MACHINE
REVIEW
44
FOR
NOVEMBER
7947
I've been around this man 's town.
I've dealt with them all and I'm
putting you right on this . .. the
musicman's headquarters in Los
Angeles and San Francisco is the
Ge neral Music Company. Regard-
less of your wants or needs, Gen-
e ral can supply them ... not later,
but RIGHT NOW, and the prices
and terms can't be bettered any-
where else. Then, too, General can
s upply you w ith
Buckle, Wall BOI
MUSIC SYSTEMS
"With Buckley You
Can't Go Wrong!'
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NEW YORK-The CBS and NBC vs.
ASCAP feuding is finally ended. All
AS CAP controlled music is now back on
all three major networks, as MBS signed
last May. The New York headquarters of
both networks agreed to ASCAP'S revised
terms several months ago, but it was the
affiliated stations throughout the country
who held out until after lengthy negotia-
tions were undertaken in order to end the
war to everyone's satisfaction-for the next
ten years.
It was proven, however, that the networks
and the public can get along without
ASCAP music, but the agreement will re-
move cause for bandleader's headaches due
to the clearance difficulties.
BMI will continue to function as it has
adequately proven itself as an alternate
competitive source of music. This will
mean composers and the listening public
will benefit from the greater selection of-
fered by both sources.
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~ Brennan
Hall Year
With General Music
SAN FRANCISCO-Six months ago-on
May 1, to be exact-Ernie Brennan stepped
off a plane at the San Francisco airport
to take over the management of Bud Parr's
Northern branch of the General Music Co.,
at 1157 Post Street.
In this short span of time, Ernie now
numbers his friends around the Bay Region
by the hundreds, and it's only because of
one thing: Ernie has a sound and practical
knowledge of the coin machine business,
having spent virtually all of his business
life in the industry, and consequently he
has been able to render a genuine service
to operators throughout Northern Cali-
fornia.
As most of us know, Ernie began his
career as a bookkeeper with the Rowe Man-
ufacturing Co., when they started making
cigarette vending machines, some 15 years
ago_ Ernie is the type of executive who al-
ways has the door of his office wide open
and is always happy to sit down with op-
erators to discuss their individual problems
with a view toward solving them.
Since Brennan took over Bud Parr's
Northern operation, sales of Buckley Music
Systems have more than doubled. The con-
cern maintains one of the finest and best
equipped Service Departments in Northern
California, for the repair and maintenance
of all types of coin operated music equi p-
ment. Also, they carry one of the largest
stocks of used phonographs, in virtually
every make and model, and are equipped
to offer the operator a comprehensive time
payment plan on both new and used equip-
ment_ One feature of the General Music
Co. service which has won wide acclaim
among operators is the toll-free service for
out-of-town operators, who may place their
orders through a collect telephone call and
shipment is made the same day, thus as-
suring fast service in making emergency
repairs and replacements.
The Service Department is staffed with a
grou p of skilled sound technicians who are
always ready to give individual technical
and installation advice to customers.
In the pages of THE COIN MACHINE RE-
VIEW this month, William Corcoran has
sponsored an advertising message for Ernie
Brennan, which deserves a reading by all
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California operators,
AMP Discs Are
License Free
. NEW YORK-The "All Clea~" has been
sounded on AMP copyrights. The impres-
sion apparently held by some operators
that the locations are not "licensed" to per-
form them is erroneous. AMP is one of
the four copyright organizations serving
radio and makes no charge for the use of
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its music in restaurants and taverns.
ON BAND AT
ALL TIMES-
The Service Departments in both
our offices are staffed by skilled
facto r y tra ined r e mot e control
technicians. These efficient engi-
neers are ready to supply you
with every type of music s ervice .
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MAKE USE OF OUR
SERVICE DEPARTMENT
THE LARGEST STOCK OF RE·
CONDITIONED PHONOGRAPHS
IN THE STATE !
GENERAL MOSIC CO.
2277 W. PIC~ BOULEVARD
LOS ANG,ELES
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1157 POST STREET
SAN FRANCISCO
Accompanied by his vocal star, Jun e ~RobbilJs and Gordon B. Sutton , Sales Manager 01 the
Guarantee Distributing Co., W urlitzer Distributors 01 Indianapolis, Eddy Duchin, peerless
pian ist and popular band leader plays a Wurlitzer Victory Model 850 in the lobby 01 the
Lyric Theoter, Indianapolis. Says Duchin, " My band and I are 100 per cent sold an Wurlitzer
reproduction."
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