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NEW ORLEANS — The CBS Records Group held its annual year-beginning marketing meetings at New Orleans' Fairmont Motel Jan. 25-28. The meetings brought together CBS Records executives of New York, Los Angeles and Nashville. members of all CBS Records branches and overseas representatives of CBS International.
Included in the conference's agenda were sales, promotion, merchandising A&R and publicity seminars and new product presentations and performances by select artists on the Columbia, Epic, Portrait and CBS Associated Labels.
Jack Craigo, senior vice president and general manager of marketing for CBS Records, and Paul Smith, vice president and marketing and branch distribution for CBS Records, co-chaired the week's activities. The meetings were coordinated by Rosalind Blanche, director of merchandising planning and administration for CBS Records.
Speeches were delivered by Walter Yetnikoff, president of CBS Records Group; Bruce Lundvall, president of CBS Records Division; Ron Alexenburg, senior vice president of E/P/A; Craigo; Don Dempsey, vice president of marketing for Columbia; and Jim Tyrrell, vice president of marketing for E/P/A. Paul Smith delivered the keynote speech.
Highlighting the meetings were audio-visual presentations of new product, produced by Arnold Levine, vice president of advertising/creative services for CBS Records. Among the new albums slated for first quarter shipment are LPs by Heatwave. McCrarys, Marlena Shaw, Walter Egan, Vicki Leandros, Mark Colby, Bobby Bare, Judas Priest, Mac Davis, Bonnie Koloc, Toto, Mickey Gilley, Lonnie Liston Smith, Hounds, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Webster Lewis, Nigel Olsson and Johnnie Taylor.
Three classical albums were also featured: Zubin Mehta/New York Philharmonic version of Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring; Jean-Pierre Rampal's Japanese
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