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ATLANTIC DEALS ARETHA NEW CONTRACT . . . MAY 4, 1968

From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1968

WEXLER, ATLANTIC RECORDS SIGN ARETHA TO NEW LONG-TERM RECORD DEAL

NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin and Atlantic Records have negotiated a new contract, despite her original contract with the label had several years left open before it would have expired contractually. At a luncheon at the Hotel St. Regis last Thursday, April 25, the Atlantic organization were on hand to celebrate her new deal and her imminent departure on her first European concert tour.

Jerry Wexler and Aretha Franklin. — Jerry Wexler and Aretha Franklin *1967 (click on image for larger view)*

Jerry Wexler, Atlantic’s executive vice-president, said that Miss Franklin will receive one of the largest guarantee ever given to any recording star but to reveal the sum would be in “gross taste.”

Miss Franklin signed with Atlantic Records in October, 1966, and her first single was issued in February, 1967. Since then she has had five singles releases that have sold more than 1 million copies, including an album that has garnered sales of over $1 million. Over the past year she has swept virtually every award in the record industry.

Miss Franklin’s European tour begins in Rotterdam, Sunday, May 5 and winds up in Stockholm on Thursday, May 9. END

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(Information and news source: Billboard; May 4, 1968)

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DAVE CLARK FIVE TO TOUR U.S., CANADA . . . NOVEMBER 7, 1964

From the MCRFB news archives: 1964

DC5 Offered Guarantees for 7 -Week Tour of U.S. and Canada

NEW YORK — Bookings of the Dave Clark Five for it’s seven-week tour of the United Sates and Canada which began on Sunday, November 2, has varying guarantees for the English group scaled from $9,000 to $15,000, plus a percentage over a certain gate.

Dave Clark Five Canadian billboard poster; November 2, 1964. — The Dave Clark Five on tour in 1965, Toronto, Canada. Prior the DC5’s performance, CKEY Dave Mickie introduced the Esquires on stage *(click on image for larger view).*

Size of the guarantee depends on the seating capacity of the hall and price of the tickets.

At Memphis, for example, where the show is scheduled for Sunday, December 13, the seating in the new $4.7 million Coliseum is 12,050 and a sell-out will bring in $42,000. The popular British band’s guarantee for the expected-sellout in Memphis will be approximately $9,000, by all estimations. The Memphis contract calls for the group to cash in 50 per cent of any amount over a gross gate of 18,000.

Thus, if the show is sold out at $42,000, the DC5 combo would claim $9,000 plus an additional $12,000, with a total for $21,000 for the booking. In larger cities, the scale will reap much higher. The tour was booked by Spotlight Productions, Inc., New York, with local promoters at cities the shows play will furnish preliminary acts.

The seven-week tour, which began Sunday, November 1, in Montreal, ends Sunday, December 20 in Buffalo, New York. The DC5 tour is expected to gross from $1.5 to $2 million. The British group will play at least 50 shows during their stay here and in Canada.

Ray Brown, of National Artists Attractions, a local sponsor, said his contract calls for him to provide local preliminary acts before the band’s appearance on stage. And Brown said that has presented a unique problem.

“I’m getting calls from many acts who want to appear on the show free,” said the puzzled Brown. “I never had been confronted with that situation before,” Brown said. END.