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Billboard Jan 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard January 7, 1956
Saints Roast Name Sinners For Charity
14 Artists In '55 Earn BB's Triple Crown
New Record Giants Due To Wield Force In '56 Sales Battle
Gen. Teleradio Label Buy Off
Billboard Jan 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard January 14, 1956
For '56 Juke Boxes Eye More For More
Agencies Split Personality Of Sammy Kaye
Hollywood Tunes Up To Send Box Office On A Musical Whirl
At 12th Hour, The 11th Hour.
Billboard Jan 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard January 19, 1956
Juke Ops Divide On EP Price Cuts
New TV Series To Feature Big Opera Names
Jazz In '56 Trades Esoteric For New Big Business Look
Ontario Fete To Offer Jazz
Billboard Jan 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard January 21, 1956
Big Industry Courts Automatic Selling
Old TV Pilots To Promote Dance Dates
Disk Industry Heads For New High With Rocket Start In Jan.
Music Caters To Teen-Ager
Billboard Jan 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard January 28, 1956
Top Circus Power: So What's New?
Caesar Leads Host Of Big Showcases
A Dog's Life Should Happen To Me, Say Informed TV Actors
TV Caters To Animal Quirks
Billboard Feb 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard February 4, 1956
Giant Foreign Juke Box Market Asleep
R&B Rocks Movie Houses, Rolls In Coin
Square Circles Peg Rock And Roll Idiom As A Beat To Stick
Even Dogs Dig Rock And Roll
Billboard Feb 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard February 11, 1956
New Jersey Rings Again With Battle
Defense Dep't To Turn Music Men Into Tars
Daily Bread At Finger Tip
Film Grows In Seven Years
Billboard Feb 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard February 16, 1956
Artists Play Record Company Hopscoth
Martha Raye Fills Breach For Marines
Stop And Shop Fun Centers Mushroom Acrooss The Country
Come To Us, Says Miller
Billboard Feb 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard February 25, 1956
Dawn Of Juke Box EP Use Still Faint
Frank Loesser Songs Slated For Ringling
TV Can Be A Lot Of Fun Even Tho Your Set's Not Working
Council Plan TV Toy Films
Billboard Mar 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard March 3, 1956
Who Said Showmen Like Big Outdoors?
NBC Careful In Snipping Bard's Strong Tongue
Country & Western Music Holds Line On The Video Front
Record Charts Aid Film Show
Billboard Mar 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard March 10, 1956
Report Verifies Top Record Industry Yr.
Movie House, Juke Box Tie
Show Business Speculates On Holidays Bill
Forces Probe Illegal Deals
Billboard Mar 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard March 17, 1956
Come, Come To The Fair-That's Twice
Rock And Roll Gets Refined For Theaters
Libraries In U.S. Can. Offer $10-Mil Disk Industry Mkt.
N.Y. Library Airs Concerts
Billboard Mar 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard March 24, 1956
Video Talent Shows Stage Thing Or Two
Juke Boxes In U.S. To Hit Operational Peak During 1956
Record Boost Also Coming
TV Holdouts Capitulation
Billboard Mar 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard March 31, 1956
Thresher Reunions To Blow Off Steam
Mickey Disks, TV Club Tie-In On Mail Order
Record Shops Have Whatever You Want For Music At Home
Grandpa Gets Hot Rod Urge
Billboard Apr 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard April 7, 1956
News Break Rarely Affects Film Stock
Circus Preview Telecast Gets Novel Format
Bang-Up Season In Offing For Nation's Outdoor Show Fields
Ride Men Lead In Optimism
Billboard Apr 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard April 14, 1956
Juke Boxes In '56 To Bid Nickel Adieu
Big One: From Troubled Seas A Great Show
Proposed TV Code Would Curb Crime, Sex On Film Shows
Code Touches Commercials
Billboard Apr 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard April 28, 1956
Disnelyland Brings Life To Old Arcade
Pilot Films For TV Lose Sales Punch
Dollar Going To Pot; $3,773,800 Given Away Free By TV
Game Tests Kid Engineers
Billboard May 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard May 5, 1956
Hot Times In Old Towns For Rogers
Crosley Tells Weather With Radar System
Canned Milk Can't Cow Canned Music On Quota Of Laughs
Anybody Got Frock Coat?
Billboard May 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard May 12, 1956
Top H'wood Names TV Ratings Slight
Fairs At Peak On Booking TV, Record Names
Keys To Lure Movie Talent
Juke Boxes Buying Aids
Billboard May 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard May 19, 1956
OI' Rabbit Foot Still Hoppin Thru South
Beg Pardon, What's That Line Again?
Is Package Record Promotion Creating A Frankenstein?
Disk Buyers Bargain Days
Billboard May 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard May 26, 1956
Juke Box Exports, Headaches On Rise
Pool, Rink Tax Repeal OK'D By House Group
TV Networks Draft Better Than Ever Programs For Fall
Stars Missing In Fall Line-Up
Billboard Jun 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard June 2, 1956
Picnickers To Rival Ants In U.S. Parks
2 BB Crowns For Presley On Berle's TV
In Young TV World, 21 Network Shows Grow Long Beards
Old Soldiers On TV Do Die
Billboard Jun 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard June 9, 1956
Movie Theater Now Playground For Kids
ABC Lays Plan For Country Western Show
Music On Networks Gets Scissors, Sex Is Not Here To Stay
Intent Saves Donegan Disk
Billboard Jun 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard June 16, 1956
Industry To Step Up Fun At The Factory
Steven Allen To Relax At 8 On Sundays
Off-Beat Use Of TV Program Time Still Spells Big Success
Rosalinda Set For July TV
Billboard Jun 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard June 23, 1956
Golf Clubs Try New Kind Of Fireworks
Judges Choose Winners Of Army Contest
Market Revolutions Hurl Record World Into Greater Profits
Pop Music's Global Vistas
Billboard Jun 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard June 30, 1956
Summer Special
June 30 1956
Price 25 Cents
Billboard Jul 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard July 7, 1956
Boozers Want Fun With Their Drinks
Video To Give Nation's Fairs Huge Send Off
Current Factor In Music Business Is Diversification
TV DJ Film Deal In Works
Billboard Jul 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard July 14, 1956
Biggie Trend Seen In Juke Operators
Top European Circus Acts Hit Jackpot
Syndicated TV Film Increased 20% In 26 Major Markets
Juke Ops Still Small Business
Billboard Jul 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard July 21, 1956
TV Lens - Happy For Outdoor Shows
Disk Artist Debs Strictly For The Birds
Phonos & Disks Combo Threat As Oscar Candidates
Phono Sales Almost 1 Mil.
Billboard Jul 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard July 28, 1956
Silver Skates Take On Gold-Dollar Hue
Sacred Song Invades Pop Music Field
Video Answers Call For Programming Of Religious Shows
TV Blurbs To Urge Religion
Billboard Aug 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard August 4, 1956
Juke Op Bandwagon Is Diversification
Show Business Awaits Fate Of Tax Bill
Record Trade Full Steam Ahead Thru Summer Doldrums
RCA Aims At Teen Target
Billboard Aug 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard August 11, 1956
Fading Era: Organ Grinder And Monk
Wabd Movie Buy Stiffens Fight In N.Y.
History Of Feature Films : Movies Get Better Than Ever
Still Shipping Old Packages
Billboard Aug 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard August 18, 1956
$$ Registers Play Home On The Range
Musical Team Keeps Bells Album Rights
TV Viewers To Win In Networks Game Of Program Chess
Specs Stet For Next Season
Billboard Aug 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard August 25, 1956
Modern Music No Longer Dirty Word
Eng. Liberace, M'Lord Foley To Bow In U.S.
Battle Lines Form For The Sellingest Juke Box Fall Yet
Jukes, Cars: Wide Choices.
Billboard Sep 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard September 1, 1956
Powerful Salesman Of Juke Box Music
Sheperd, Wor May Again Be Sweethearts
Is Politico Conclave Marriage To Video Headed For Rocks?
Confabs Lose Rating Power
Billboard Sep 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard September 8, 1956
Automatic Shopping In Chains & Supers
No Rocking For Tunesmith In A Tree Top
Phonograph Firms Fall Ballyhoo Points Up Accent On Youth
Disk-Phono Ties Knitting
Billboard Sep 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard September 15, 1956
Days Of The Groping Orator Numbered
Names Pull In Huge Grosses At Big Fairs
Fairs Thruout U.S., Canada Chalk Up A Whopping Big Year
Peak Activity On Midways
Billboard Sep 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard September 22, 1956
Giant Halls Sprout Across The Country
Celler Hearing Provides Pros With Yocks!
NTA Film Network Gives U.S. Unique 4th Television Web
First An Idea, Then Reality
Billboard Sep 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard September 29, 1956
USSR Raises Iron Curtain On Jukes
WGN Rado-TV To Put Accent On Live Shows
Radio Disk Jockeys Take High Hurdles In Stiff Ratings Race
With Sells Record Spins
Billboard Oct 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard October 6, 1956
Okay '56 Progress In 200 Play Jukes
Behind Idea Of Record Insert Much Work
Look At Future : TV Home Tape May Be Sold Like Records
In 20 Years It May Come
Billboard Oct 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard October 13, 1956
Santa And Mickey Mouse Great Pals
Stars In Night Clubs Turn To Record Selling
U.S. Navy And Video Programmers: One Hand Washes Other
Army Helps West Point
Billboard Oct 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard October 20, 1956
Fly Thru The Triple With Greatest Ease
CBS, Others Revive New Talent Cry
Buyers Of Records Find Big Salesmen In Their Mail Boxes
Mails To Hypo Yule Buying
Billboard Oct 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard October 27, 1956
Music On Juke Box Wide Open Frontier
Army To Give Elvis Presley A G.I. Haircut
Album Crossroads: Full Speed Ahead, Or Cut The Steam?
Obsolescence Not An Decca
Billboard Nov 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard November 3, 1956
Bigger Cars And No Space To Park Em
Easier To Try White House Than Getting On TV Quiz Shows
Shows Drop Pro Quizees
Danbury Still Needs Room
Billboard Nov 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard November 10, 1956
Jockey, Juke Op Teen Work In '57
15 Pop Labels Hit With Top Retail Disks
Spinner Of Records Also Spirals Sales On Sponsor Goods
Sponsors Up DJ Spending
Billboard Nov 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard November 24, 1956
Uncle Sam's A Cool Cat, Digs Jazz Beat.
Tight Helium Supply Lays Balloons Low
Outdoor Showmen To Turn Chi Hotel Into Virtual Midway
Convention's A Show Itself
Billboard Nov 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard November 28, 1956
Seeburg To Sell For $10 Million
Show Issues At Status Quo With Election
TV To Cull Material From True Story Type Of Magazine
Seeburq 1902 Start: Pianos
Billboard Dec 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard December 1, 1956
Album Buyer: New Juke Box Patron?
What Can Guy Do With A 60G Oil Painting?
British Commercial Video Takes Giant Step In First Year
Brit. Borrows From U.s. TV
Billboard Dec 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard December 8, 1956
Fairs Flooded With Grandstand Offers
Pablo Casals To Play Dates In Puerto Rico
Record Shops Face Headwinds Despite Top Business Level
Danger Lurks In Mighty Few
Billboard Dec 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard December 15, 1956
Automatic Selling Boom Ahead For U.S.
Pearson, ATW Actors Off To Ice And Snow
Hey, Rub-A-Dub, Dub, Three Gals In A Tub In TV Commercials
Hairy Legs Hard To Find
Billboard Dec 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard December 22, 1956
New Miniature Golf Fad Tees Off In U.S.
Record Firm Rule Of Thumb Slips From Fickle Public Pulse
Presley Top Hound Dog
Pretty Putting In Glen Echo
Billboard Dec 1956
Buying Choices
Billboard December 29, 1956
Polkas Fade From Mil'Kee Juke Boxes
Actors, Bands Make 1-Niters In Own Planes
Nothing Like a Show In Land Of Ice, Snow To Warm The Heart
Harmon's Top Shows Stars
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