[BC] TM's Tomorrow Radio

Rich Wood richwood
Sun Apr 29 12:50:11 CDT 2007


------ At 10:34 AM 4/29/2007, Steve Newman wrote: -------

>Roll Mary Hopkin! <LOL> Must have had a backlash all the way to San 
>Francisco! No, we just saw a slight blip on the radar. A good friend 
>of mine plays the part of the promo man. Tony Richland. I don't know 
>if you know Tony. He's a legend. In an interview he was asked what 
>he felt was the most important thing in record promotion. One answer 
>reply: "Lunch"! Mostly we had dinners and LOTS of booze! If CBS only knew. :)

I don't know him. Part of the production was done in Dallas and part 
in Los Angeles. Those were the days when CBS owned Columbia Records 
and drugs were part of the promotion process. Hospitality suites were 
rated on the quality of items unrelated to the music. Of course no 
one at CBS knew (Wink. Wink.)

Rich 



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