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ENTERTAINMENT
ON REVIEW
By Monte Zepeda
It seems a little contradictory indeed that WAYS is bringing
the Assdciation to Charlotte as a part of the station’s first Holiday
Festival. Just about two years ago the Association released their
first single record, “Along Comes Mary’’. The song went to the
top of all the national charts but received so little airplay in
Charlotte that few people in the city knew what the song sounded
like.
In 1967 WAYS brings a group to headline its Christmas show
that in 1965 wasn’t good enough to warrant airplay.
However, it comes as no surprise that WAYS is bringing back
Bobby Vee. The station has sort of taken Vee under its wind
and helped him along with his career. The station broke Vee’s
single, “Come Back When You Grow Up”, before any other
radio station in the country. Since then, WAYS has apparently
taken special interest in Vee. Recently two artists released a
record called “Beautiful People”. While most other top forty
stations in North Carolina are playing the version by Kenny
O’Dell, WAYS plays only Vee’s version.
When will the contradictions end?
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The Lettermen have released a new album as a part of
Capitol’s new sounds for ‘68. It’s called “The Lettermen! ! !
. . . and ‘Live’ ”.
This record album presents a newer side to the popular campus
concert group. In addition to the soft ballads, the Lettermen
have included some of the recent, fast-moving hits that pre
viously have not been thought of as “Lettermen style”. For
example, cuts on this album include, “Up, Upand Away”, “Windy”,
“Sally Was a Good Old Girl”, “Goin’ Out of My Head”, and
“Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”.
Of course ballads have been included in this album.
Songs like “Love, This Is My Song”, “What Now, My Love”,
“I Believe”, “Meditation”, and “Quiet Nights” will always
prove to be the Lettermen’s most popular presentations.
This “live — in concert” album has a distinction that few
“live” recordings can claim. The backup music is really of top
quality. Every complimentary sound is featured — even the
most minute effect of percussion — to make this a most enter
taining album.
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“Now if I ask for four, is it possible that I might get four?
Unh! Unh! Unh! Unh! Good godah! Don’t play so much; don’t
be so mean!” Yes friends. Soul King James Brown has a new
album out on the King label, “Cold Sweat”
James, long THE soul entertainer of the country, belts out
more of the same in this album. Some examples are “Stagger
Lee”, “Good Rockin’ Tonight”, and “Kansas City”, all in addi
tion to parts 1 & 2 of “Cold Sweat”.
But also in this album, James Brown slows it down a little and
proves that he can sing as well as scream. An example would be the
old standard, “Fever”.
Jack Jones, now on RCA records, has a new album that has
been featured prominently on WBT radio. If s a great new sound
in records and it’s a great new sound as far as Jones’ style is
concerned. He is no longer the crooner of the dime-a-dozen variety,
but is a vocalist with a distinct singing style.
The album features “Live for Life”, a song from the upcoming
United Artists motion picture of the same name. But one of the
best songs is “Without Her” which combines the upbeat of today
with the orchestration of yesterday’s classical works to come up
with an unbeatable recording.
Other songs on the album include “The Look of Love” and
“Homeward Bound” along with a number of newer songs that hold
great appeal for the young and the youthful adults.
The album title? It’s “Without Her”.
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Not much has been heard from the Sounds Orchestral of late
but they have not been inactive. A new album by the group has been
released by Parkway Records featuring the piano of Johnny Pear
son, the man who made “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” such a hit.
This record has sparkling instruments! versions of many of
the recent hit songs. Here is a list:
“Guantanamera”
“God Only Knows”
“I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love”
“Black Is Black”
“Michelle”
“Somewhere My Love”
“Listen People”
“Love Letters”
“Daydream”. . . and others
It is hard to describe the sound of this album. The songs
are versions of the hits that have a certain appeal that is often
lacking in such records. The songs sound a great deal like the
original versions yet have enough variation. In other words,
“Sophisticated Sounds” by the Sounds Orchestral is a necessary
addition to an instrumental record library.
Bobby Vinton’s new Epic album, “Please Love Me Forever”,
merits a listening. Everyone knows Vinton’s style, so a des
cription is unnecessary. So a decision on whether or not to get
the album would have to be made on the basis of songs included.
Here they are. Inadditlonto “Please Love Me Forever”, are “Love
Me With All Your Heart”, “Young Love”, It’s All In the Game”,
“P.S, I Love You”, “Bouquet of Roses”, and “Who’s Sorry Now”.
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A couple of months ago Chris Bartley had a single out called,
“The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven”. That record has been
incorporated ino an album that is sure to entertain. The album,
on the Vando label, is the first by this 19-year-old newcomer to
the entertainment business. It should prove to be another step of
advancement tor Bartley.
Anyone for an album of good dance music? Then “Ooh Baby,
You Turn Me On” by Willie Mitchell should be the answer. Mitchell,
a master of soul-rock, has never been better than he is in his
album. Not a soul can listen to this album and keep from marking
rime in some way if not going into a dance outright.
Cuts from the album include the title song, “Soul Finger”,
“Slippin’ & Sliddin’”, “Sunny”, “Pearl Time”, “Papa’s Got
a Brand New Bag”, and “Respect”.
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‘Cool Hand Luke’Experience
In Individualistic Action
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by Monte Zepeda
Lucas Jackson — a true in
dividualist. What does an indi
vidualist do when he drinks beer
on a summer night?
Co;: “What are you doin’ there
fella?”
Luke: “I just cut, uh, tha...
ping...thing.”
Cop: “You’d better come along
with us.”
What does he do? He uses a
pipe cutter to remove the parking
meters from their stands in a
municipal lot. Result? Luke gets
two years hard labor in a prison
camp.
Welcome speech?
Cap’n: “It’s all up to you. I
can be a good guy or I can be
one real mean som’bich.”
After a time the cruelty of the
road gang mounts up to crushing
pressure. Luke “gets rabbit in
his blood” and runs. Tomakegood
his escape Luke has to stay ahead
of the bloodhounds.
Dogboy: “Look Cap’n. Look
what he done to Blue. He’s dead.
He run himself plum to death.”
But success in escape is only
temporary. Capture and return to
the prison camp follow — return
to be used as an example.
Cap’n: “Ah, what we got heah
is, ah, failuah ta communicate.
Some men you just can’t reach;
some men you can’t be nice to.”
Luke: “I wish you’d quit bein’
so nice to me, Cap’n.”
For that remark Luke gets a
blackjack across the back of the
neck with a screaming admoni
tion from Cal’n, “Don’t you evah
talk that way to me boy. Evah!”
But even with a set of legirons
Luke gets away again. But to
really get far away Luke has to
dispose of the chains and the
dogs following him. He seeks aid
from two little colored boys.
Luke: “I sure do need some
help. I wonder — no you ain’t
strong enough.”
Boy 1: “Tod do what?”
Luke: “To heft an axe.”
Boy 1: “Sho’ I can.”
Luke: “Bet you can’t.”
Boy 1: “I can too!”
Boy 2: “Well then get it man!”
The problem of the chains is
«;nlvpd hilt what about the does?
After spreading chili powder, pep
per and curry —
Luke to boys: “You wanna have
some fun? You remember how them
dogs do when they come through
and you tell me about it someday.”
This time escape is longer but
not permanent. After capture he
gets two sets of chains and is
put back to work.
Cook: “Luke, yougettin’a smell
so that if you run again, I could
track you myself.”
Luke: “Yeah, well that should
be easy for a genuine son of a
bitch.”
But the guards know Luke too
well and realize that they have
to break his spirit or he will
run again.
Guard: “Luke, you see that
ditch? That’s Boss Kean’s ditch
and I told him that dirt in it is
your dirt. What’s your dirt doin’
in Boss Kean’s ditch?”
Luke: “I don’t know boss.”
Guard: “Then you better get
in there and get it out.”
Later when the ditch has been
dug --
Another guard: “Hey Luke. What
you doin’ there?”
Luke: “Tm gettin’ my dirt
out of Boss Kean’s ditch.”
Guard: “Well I’ll be damned
if Tm going to have your dirt
in my yard. Get it out.”
Later, after the hole has been
filled.
First Guard: “Luke, I thought
I told you to get your dirt out of
Boss Kean’s ditch.”
Luke: “O.K., Boss.”
On into the night after the ditch
has been redug.—
Guard Two: “What’s all this
dirt doin’ here, Luke?”
But even though all of this treat
ment in addition to beatings and
humiliation does break Luke’s
spirit, it doesn’t prevent that same
spirit from rebuilding after the
heat is off Luke.
So Luke runs again. But this
escape lasts even shorter than
the others. Cornered, Luke gets
this proposition from a fellow
convict.—
They got us boy. They was gonna
kill you but I made them promise
that it you gave yourself up they
wadn’t even gonna beat you up.
Come on boy, give up.”
What does an individualist do?
See “Cool Hand Luke” starring
Paul Newman at the Cinema I to
find out.
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