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‘Endless Love’ Favorite Song
By Bill Sledge
In looking over the results of
the music poll, which was taken
of random students in the
cafeteria last Wednesday and
Thursday, it was interesting to
see what was on the students’
minds pertaining to popular
music. Of the approximately 300
students polled, the results
showed that AC students liked a
wide variety of popular music.
In the category of favorite
album, J. Geils Band's “Freeze
Frame” took the top spot, and
the albums of Dan Fogleberg
and the country sound of Ala
bama also scored well.
The category of favorite song
was much more selective , and
“Endless Love" beat out “I
Love Rock’n’roll” by a very
small margin. The results of this
category showed that the people
polled tended to be more song-
oriented than artist-oriented.
The favorite recording artist
category brought in a good
variety of popular artists, with
Foreigner catching the top spot
over Kenny Rogers. I was
surprised when I noticed that
such standard favorites didn’t
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score very well. The Doors got
two votes. The Beatles got one
vote but Bruce Springsteen
didn’t get any! The reason these
acts probably did not get re
presented is because the poll
leaned more toward what was
going on recently in music.
WRAL, the official radio sta
tion of the cafeteria, overwhelm
ingly took honors for the favorite
radio station, A variety of radio
stations just outside the Wilson
area were represented, such as
K-94 in the Elizabeth City-Nor-
folk area, WOKN in Goldsboro
A few surprises showed up here
too with several local country
stations, Raleigh’s Easy Listen
ing WYTD, WPTF and Wilson’s
own WVOT all getting one vote
each.
In the category pertaining to
reading album reviews, 55 per
cent of the people polled said
no. The other 45 percent shows
me that there is obviously some
one on this campus who reads
my article.
With these results, I have
determined that the group of
students polled was more aware
of specific songs than artists,
and its tastes were about on the
level with the way things look on
the national charts.
The following are the lists of
our results:
Bands
1. Foreigner
2. Kenny Rogers
3. Alabama
4. Earth. Wind 4 Fire
5. Rolling Stones
6. Commodores
7. Barry Manilow
8. Dan Fogleberg
9. J. Geils Band
10. Journey
Radio StatloDs
1. WRAL
2. WQDR
3. WITN (Rock 93)
4. WRSV (Soul 92)
5. WMYK (K-94)
Album lievunv
Albmms
1. J. Geils Band—"Freeze-Frame”
2. Foreigner—“4”
3. Dan Fogleberg—“Innocent Age”
4. Rolling Stones—"Tattoo You”
5. Alabama—“Feels So Right”
6. Journey—“Escape”
7. Go Go’s—“Beauty and the Beat"
8. Kool and the Gang—“Something Special”
9. Olivia Newton-John—“Hhysical”
10. REO Spcedwagon—“Hi Infidelity”
Sooga
1. "Endless Love”—Diana Ross 4 Lionel Richie
2. “I Love Rock ’n Roll’’—Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
3. “Open Arms”—Journey
4. “Through the Years”—Kenny Rogers
5. “Leader of the Band”—Dan Fogleberg
6. “Physical”—Olivia Newton-John
"Waiting on a Friend”—Rolling Stones
8. “Flame Thrower”—J. Oeils Band
9. "Let’s Groove’’—Earth. Wind 4 Fire
10. "Start Me Up”—Rolling Stones
Poco: ‘Cowboys and Englishmen’
Beades ‘Reel Music’
By BUI Sledge
This is the latest Beatles
collection issued by Capital
Records. It is composed of songs
taken from their five movies, “A
Hard Day’s Night” (1964),
“Help!” (1965), “Magical Mys
tery Tour” (1%7, a short film
shown on British television), the
animated “Yellow Submarine”
(1968) and their documentary
film about the Beatles later
studio work “Let It Be” (1970).
All of the songs included here
are also included on the ’62-’66
and ’67-’70 collections, with the
exception of “I Should Have
Known Better” and the varia
tions of “Get Back" and “Let It
Be" t^en from the “Let It Be”
album. Perhaps the best thing
about this album is the im
proved fidelity found on this
record, making the Beatles
sound “technically” better than
ever.
The album also contains a
well-researched, colorful book
let containing lots of back
ground information on the
Beatles’ films and lots of great
pictures.
The release of this album is
probably due to the rumored
re-release of “A Hard Day’s
Night" this summer. Although
this is not a collection of
anything that was not available
before, this collection could fill
some holes in a not so thorough
Beatles collection, like mine!
By BUI Sledge
Poco is a group whose music
is at the heart of countrified,
laid back rock. Ever since its
first album in 1%9. this group
influenced many of the Southern
California bands of the ’70s.
such as the Eagles.
But as musical trends
changed to more of a harder,
more amplified rock sound.
Poco did not fare as well in the
transition. The result was its
1980 album “Under the Gun,” a
fair commereial success but a
critical disaster.
With its fresh new album
“Cowboys and Englishmen”
Poco goes back to its eariy
sound. The album i^ns with
“Sea of Heartbreak,” a familiar
tune with gentle acoustic back
ing and easy harmony. "No
Relief in Sight," currently a
country hit for Con Hunley, is
given Poco's sweet treatment
making this song its own. And
of course, like all of the old Poco
albums, there is a good “hoe-
down" instrumental “Feudin”
rounding out side one . The rest
of the album follows along these
lines showing that this band can
still make records with integrity.
Although Poco has never
become a “supergroup.” it has
been fairly consistent in produc
ing albums which carry on Its
patented tradition of fusing
country and rock with smooth
harmony.
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