Dick Dale circa early ’60s. (Click on image for larger view).
HOLLYWOOD — One of the hottest selling attractions here on record disks and in person is a 24-year old surf-riding buff, Dick Dale, whose Del-Tone recording is currently dominating the local charts and whose personal appearances are drawing ‘turn-away’ crowds here in the lower California west coast area.
Dale currently has three single sides on local radio station playlists on KFWB and KRLA. Music City’s Top 40 Best Selling Singles chart lists Dale’s “Peppermint Man” in the No. 1 position, followed by “Miserlou” as the No. 2 best seller.
Music City’s Top 40 Best Selling Albums Chart lists Dale’s “Surfer’s Choice” LP in the No. 2 top-selling position, second only to Vaughn Meader’s “First Family” album. Sid Talmadge’s Record Merchandising, which happens to be a distributor for both Cadence and the Del-Tone label, said last week that the Dale package has started catching up with the Meader “First Family” album.
Talmadge also said he has already moved 50,000 copies of “Surfer’s Choice” LP and has sold more than 75,000 of the Dale singles. Dale, and his band the Deltones, comprising as an instrumental group of seven with Dale serving as lead, are currently appearing at the Harmony Park Ballroom in nearby Anaheim. END.
(Information and news source: Billboard; January 12, 1963).
Beach Boys Set Up Record Label; Wilson Seeks Distributors
The Beach Boys in 1966.
Los Angeles — Brother Records have been formed by the Beach Boys while domestic and foreign distributions for the new label currently are being sought. The group itself will not cut for their own company which falls under the umbrella Beach Boys Enterprises. They remain tied to Capitol Records. Brian Wilson will be executive producer for the teen-oriented company.
Over at Capitol Records, the west-coast group has just earned gold disk records for their recent single release, “Good Vibrations,” and for their Capitol LP’s, “Little Deuce Coupe,” and “Shut Down, Vol. II.” END.
(Information and news source: Billboard; December 31, 1966).
BEACH BOYS SEVER TIES WITH CAPITOL; GROUP ON OWN RECORD LABEL
LOS ANGELES — The Beach Boys have filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Capitol Records for more than $2 million. Concurrent with the suit the Beach Boys have also severed their seven-year relationship with the recording giant and will record instead on their own record label, Brother Records.
The lawsuit arises from a 1967 audit of a Capitol Records book by the accounting firm of Prager and Fenton which revealed an alleged deficiency in royalty payment of at least $622, 618. 72, and demands payment of $1,418,827.92 in producers fees for Brian Wilson, a member of the Beach Boys group, who performed producer/production services at Capitol’s request.
The group has also initiated a conglomerate of business enterprises emanating from it’s Hollywood offices, including a recording company, a publishing firm, a travel agency, a business management company, a personal management company and a concert production firm. Direction of the various enterprises are divided by Nicholas Grillo and Dick Duryea, the latter acting as a production co-ordinator for the conglomerate.
The Beach Boys, were said to be all smiles after leaving Capitol Records, as pictured here in 1969. (Click on image for larger view).
Further, the new enterprise will take the Beach Boys beyond the confines of the recording business. Already operating under their Financial Concepts, Inc., is a Beach Boys-operated real estate syndicate and a cardiovascular clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, to be operated in conjunction with a group of prominent Florida physicians. But the primary concern of the new Beach Boys company will still be Brother Records, according to a spokesman for the group.
In addition to their new label, the Beach Boys own three music publishing companies as well as American Sound System, the company that leases their $250,000 sound system and American productions, which packages the Beach Boys and other artists’ concert tours.
Simultaneously they are in the process of building their own 16-track recording studio within their own office complex, which will form the basis for their new label, Brother Records.
All artists on Brother Records will participate in the company’s profits, predicated on a formula yet to be devised. Artist will be offered complete financial protection through Financial Concepts, Inc., a management company that will perform complete accounting services and offer financial and investment advise to any/all personnel connected with Brother Records.
Finally, the artists will have their personal appearances, fan clubs, and merchandising organized through American Productions, another Beach Boys subsidiary. END.
(Information and news source: Billboard; April 12, 1969).
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