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ENTERTAINMENT
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By Monte Zepeda
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COWSILLS — NUMBER 4 IN NATION
Very few people have heard “TheRain, The Park and Other Things”
by the Cowsills because WAYS doesn’t want to play the record. They
don’t think it is a hit. The people at WAYS feel that M-G-M is buying
success for The Cowsills.
M-G-M has indeed spent a quarter of a million dollars in promotion
for The Cowsills. Whether or not this has accounted for the success
of the group is debatable. The Cowsills have real talent, I’ve seen
and heard them and I can see this easily. My opinion is backed up
by the fact that the record is big in the other major cities of this
state. Greensboro rated the son as number six last week. Raleigh
plays the record about every hour. Last week in one of the national
surveys, “The Rain, The Park and Other Things” was number four.
Nobody can deny the success of this record.
NEW 45’S ILOOD TURNTABLES
There are a number of 45’s that are on their way up. One of them
is “A Love That’s Real” by The Intruders. This record has been
played on WGIV for a week now and by the time it is number three
in the nation, it should make WAYS.
Another tune that has been big on WGIV is Betty Harris’ single,
“I Can’t Last Much Longer”. This is one of the best R & B tunes
to come along in some time.
A group that has made it big up north is The Bee Gees. They have
a new single that may prove to be their first hit in the southeast ~
“(The Lights Went Out In) Massachusetts”.
The Showmen, one of the most popular groups in the area, has re
recorded a very good tune, “In Paradise”. This record should be
big in the area for a long time to come.
Other new releases:
“She’s My Girl” by The Turtles
“Without A Doubt” by Major Lance
“Why Must We Part” by The Vontastics
“Spanish Harlem” by Roosevelt Grier
“Get Ready by Wayne Cochran
“Neon Rainbow” by The Box Tops
“In And Out Of Love” by Diana Ross and The Supremes
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From Their Actions
By MONTE ZEPEDA
Montoya has become the greatest innovator of the Flamenco guitar.
While standard Flamenco repertoire is limited, Carlos Montoya
has always come up with something new after constant searching,
improvising and creating.
Rich, poetic, melodic, haunting, inspired, brilliant — all are ac
curate descriptions of the maestor’s performances. His latest album
is no exception.
NEW UA INSTRUMENTAL ALBUMS
Two others instrumental albums by UA have been released this
week.
“The Best Of Everything” by Frank Cordell and his orchestra.
This album presents brilliantly arranged versions of “A Man and
A Woman”, “Music To Watch the Girls Go By”, “Never On A
Sunday” and others.
The other album is “Henry Jerome Presents — Henry’s Trumpets.
What other instrument can be topped for brilUance and beauty?
This album includes; “Up-Up And Away”, “Can’t Take My Eyes
Off You”, “AKie”, “Let The Good Times RoU”, “You Only Live
Twice”, “All You Need Is Love”, “Don’t Sleep In The Subway”,
“Georgy Girl”, and What’s New Pussycat?”.
Over the years that radio station
WAYS has been in operation, the
management has prided itself on
the station’s great dedication to
the community and to public wel
fare. Yet there are activities of
the station that have been proven
to be detrimental to the community.
When Stan and Sis Kapian first
took over station WAYS in 1965,
the treasure hunt gimmick was
used to bring listeners to the
station’s spot on the radio dial.
Checks for $1,000 were hidden
throughout the area surrounding
Charlotte, 10 such checks in all.
Then, clues were broadcast to
help the listeners find the checks.
The contests had such a reaction
from the public that concern on the
part of law enforcement officials
was aroused. Thousands of
treasure-seekers swarmed over
areas to which they were led by
the station’s clues.
Traffic jams biocked streets in
the areas where clues indicated the
treasure was hidden. Damage to
private property spurred many
complaints from residents. Posts,
signs, bushes, trees and grass
were ail dug up by the money-
craxed treasure seekers. They
dropped thousands of beer cans
as weil as newspapers, cigarette
packs, paper bags and food hold
ers.
City and county officials from the
police chief to solicitor or triedto
find some way to bring a halt to
the treasure hunts. The station
refused to voluntarily stop the
contests.
A Charlotte newspaper sug
gested in an editorial tha t the
station take the $8,000 that had
not been won at that time and
hide it on the radio station pro
perty and confine the search to the
station’s property. The paper felt
that havoc being created by the
treasure hunts was hardiy the way
for the newcomer to introduce
itself to the community.
The editorial went on with its
suggestion. “Wouldn’t it be a
great stunt to go aloft in a heli
copter and broadcast an account
of the dismantling of the radio sta-
ion, piece by piece?”
The controversy went on without
settlement.
This is hardly a display of con
cern for the welfare and betterment
of the station’s community.
Last June in Mooresville, WAYS
held one of its famed “Battle of the
Bands”. The emcee called for a
young girl wearing a miniskirt to
come up onstage from the audience.
She assisted in the drawing of
names for 12 prizes given by the
station. Afterwards she went back-
stage.
Some time later, according to
witnesses, she reappeared onstage
wearing only a “Good Guy Tee
Shirt”. She was egged on by the
comments of the emcee to put on
quite a show.
According to the witnesses, the
girl was of junior high school
age but well along in physical
development. Whether her actions
were her own or suggested by the
emcee, the incident was un-
excusable. No responsible station
employee would have allowed it to
happen.
WAYS continually takes part in
public service activities such as
their recent Halloween goodie
gathering promotion. While it is
surely fine to have someone in
terested in such projects, it is
questionable whether WAYS is all
that interested in public service.
The only criticism of the pro
motion is that the announcements
Film Shocks Audie nee
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have run for an additional two
years, after its four months on
Broadway. But the cast could not
have endured the ordeal, and, in
any event, plans for the film pro
duction brought the company back
to England.
The motion picture transfers
from the play the powerful clash
between two great historical ex
tremists: Jean-Paul Marat, re
presenting the challenge of social
reform and the call for violent
revolutionary upheval; the Marquis
de Sade, an exponent of pessimis
tic individualism and anarchic gra
tification in a world where nature
is merciless. Marat is deeply
involved with social problems, de
Sade alienated from them. Into
the midst of their dispute and the
weird ensemble around them
comes a tragic and obsessed fi
gure; young Charlotte Corday, like
some roving spectre from a Greek
play, there to end Marat’s life with
a knife thrust as he sits in his
bath.
At the end of the film, pre-
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over the world danced together and
even used the same steps and jes-
tures.
The words may be different,
but the thoughts of college stu
dents everywhere seem to be the
same—dates, parents, money, and
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on the radio station kept saying
how “The Big WAYS Good Guys
will do the walking for those who
can’t.” This was no outright
lie, depending on interpretation.
But the fact is that the station
gathered candy, games, etc. from
donors and delivered It to the
hospitals.
Yet the announcements made it
sound as if the disc jockeys would
make a door-to-door trek solicit
ing Halloween goodies. How bene
volent. And while it was a
wonderful thing for the kids. It
was even more wonderful to the
station as far as publicity and
public image goes.
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