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DENIECE WILLIAMS
It's Only The Beginning
As calendar year 1976
ends, quite a few things are
apparent. There seems to be no
visible life on Mars, Jimmy
Carter will be the 40th Presi
dent of the United States, and
Columbia recording artist
Deniece ' Williams is the
brightest female singerto hit
the musical scene since Natalie
Cole.
The latter is backed by the
fact that Miss Williams debut
album, "This Is Niecy", U
shooting up the charts like she
was a seasoned veteran widely
known to the public.
Certainly,- she wasnt't
known to the general public,
but a seasoned veteran she is.
Before writing and recording'
her own album, she toured and
participated (in every Stevie
Wonder album, since 1972, in
cluding the most recent,
"Songs In The Key Of Life."
, But she felt singing wasn't
her bag, , so she left Wonder
love to pursue a songwriting
career. And she was pretty
successfuly. Her songs were
recorded by Frankie Valli,
the Soul Train Gang, Merry
Clayton and the Emotions.
jm end1. In ' DenieceV case,' it
amA rt on &tA fir tliA Kpftpr
For a while trying to get
Maurice White, the talented
leader of Earth, Wind, & Fire
to record some of her songs, he
told her emphatically, No!
White went on to say that
if anybody was going to record .
her songs, it should be her.
Thinking about what he had
said, she hesitantly followed
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produce her. He' did, and the
rest is history.
Deniece expresses a strong
admiration for White; a feel
ing that is entirely reciprocal.
As for why she was
hesitant on becoming a solo
artist, she explained, "Singing
never meant much to me
Singing was something I just
did, instinctively. ,To be
truthful, I didn't respect the
talent until I found out that
not everyone can sing well."
Before Deniece got into
music, she wanted to be a
nurse. But fate, and others,
were not going to let her
have her way.
Naturally Deniece thinks
Stevie is one heck of a
musician and she's very thank
ful to him for giving her a
start in the show business. As
far as the future is concerned
she says "It's only the be
ginning for me." So keep an
eye, orar, out for her.
E. IX Marshall
Nocd Salos
Rcprcs
Ethel M. Marshall has been
named as a sales representative
in Metro Chicago for Seagram
Distillers Company, according
to an announcement by Robert
Goldberg, Metro Chicago man
ager. The company markets Sea
gram's 7 Crown, Seagram's
V.O., Seagram's Crown Royal,
Seagram's 100 Pipers Scotch,
Seagram's Benchmark Bour
bon, Seagram's Extra Dry Gin,
Wolfschmidt Vodka, James
Foxe Canadian, el Charro Te
quila, The Glenlivet Scotch,
Something Special Deluxe
Scotch, and Myers's Jamaican
Rum. '
A native of Pentotoc,
Miss., Ms Marshall attended the
University of Wisconsin and
Milwaukee Institute of Tech
nology. A graduate of the John
Powers Modeling School, she
has had special sales promotion
assignments for Seagram Dis
tillers Company in the Milwau
kee market.
Ms. Marshall lives in Park
Forest South, 111., with her two
children. She is past president
of the Bern Club of Milwaukee.
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11. f.ldonBird in A Cage
1 Even Herbie finds it diffi
cult to express why this
German sense of pop music
recording technology is such a
Earlier, we had been re
minded of the occasion (pre
ceding the release of our 1st
Trammps album last April)
when, in an informal situa
tion, Jerry Greenberg had re
ferred to the Trammps as
the Led Zeppelin of disco'.
Now, in the wake of "THAT'S
WHERE THE HAPPY PEOPLE
GO," "SOUL SEARCHING
TIME;' and the current "99&"
- all drawn off the Trammps'
1st Atlantic LP -- we realize
that Jerry Greenberg's com
parison was justified. And even
more so after just one listening
to the 1 1 minute LP titletune
that opens up the second side
here. As before, the Trammps
drove themselves an all-s
five man vocal grouprhyt!
section, as Jimmy Ellis, Sta
ley Wade, Harold Wade, Earl
Young, and Robert pehurch
do up an album that, if such a
thing is possible, even out
does all their previous sets. The
finer credits to -this album read
THEATRICAL WORLD
NEW YORK - Clint East
wood's latest "Dirty Harry"
film, "The Enforcer," which
features Albert Popwell in his
third such film, is shaping up
as a big money winner in New
York, Kansas City, St; Louis,
Buffalo, Los Angeles, Pitts
burgh,. Boston, Denver, Phila
delphia, to name , a few. The
. Warner, Bros., release, should
high on the u50 top-grossing
films" list when it hits there
for the first time soon.
There's a new disco
rock group in the tri-state area
of New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut, Called 'Exact
Change,' it's composed of
a group of nine talented,
dedicated musicians and
vocalists. They blend Latin,
reggae, jazz, Afro-Cuban, and
blues into the most intoxi
cating of contemporary disco
rock sounds. Watch the name,
Exact Change.
"Big Blue Marble" spokes
person Melba Moore at Paul's
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WORKER
IN REAL LIFE
Rollo, on NBC-TVs "San
for and Son," is Fred Sanford's
orimarv candidate for orison.
But actual Nathaniel Taylor,
who plays the role, is a pri-
mary contender tor outstana-
ing community worker.
Taylor principally makes
r . ..r.
rus uvmg as an atiur uiu as
program director for PASLA,
the Performing Arts Society
of Los Angeles. After major
ing in theatre arts at Los Ange
les City College, he enrolled in
PASLA's drama workshop and
within seven years had attained
his present positon.
As head of the society, he
coordinates the drama and
dance workshops for 125
young adults in South Central
Los. Angeles. In addition", kids,
identifying with the character
Rollo, ask for and accept' his
advice. V n"', ".
Consequently, ..administra
tors of the ' L. A. Unified
School district utilize him fre
quently for lectures to teachers
and school personnel on what
the children of today expect
from adults. He is, thereby,
helping the schools bridge the
gap between students and
faculty. ,
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turn-on. Listening to. every-
thing from the Rolling Stones'
"HOT STUFF" to Boney Ms
"DADDY COOL," it's obvious
"Who's Who" of the
Philadelphia discoR&B scene,
led by the Ronald BakerNor
man HarrisEarl Young pro
duction setup; arrangers Ron
"Have Mercy" Kersey and T.
G. Conway, along with Baker
and Harris; songwriters on the
order of Ron Tyson, Allan
Felder, included virtually all
of the aforementioned names,
plus guitarist T. J. Tindall,
Larry Washington on congas,
Bobby Eli sitting in on
keyboards, and the great back
ing vocals of Barbara Ingram,
Carla Benson, and Evette Ben
ton. Put it all together at Sigma
Sound Studios in Philly, and
hand the tapes over to Tom
Moulton for. the mix -- and
watch the fur fly!
Side One: Body Contact
Contract Starvin' I Feel
Like I've Been Livin' (On The
Dark Side of the Moon)
Side Two: Disco Inferno
Don't Burn Your Bridges
You Touch My Hot Line
Mall in Boston, Mass., Jan. 12
16 and into Marco Polo Hotel
in Miami Beach, Fla.. Jan. 21-3-.
The two black girls who
make up the Oreos and back
Barbara Streisand in "A Srar is
Born" are Vanetta Fields -
not Fielsa, and Clydie -- not
Clyde-King. This S8 million
Warner' Bros, ""f elease is"- all
Streisand, which is music to
her fans. ' '
Having completed ier first
film, "Pipe Dreams," Gladys
Knight's hubby, Barry Hanker
son is already at work on a
second ' vehicle for Avco Em
bassy which again will star his
wife. It centers around the
"Chitling Circuit," the net
work of theatres in urban
centers where many of today's
best-known black entertainers
played during tht lates 1950's
and early 1960's including
Gladys Knight.
Marvin Walters, spokesman
for the Coalition of Black
Stuntmen and Stuntwomen in
Hollywood has quit his $1,000
a month, 1 6 hour a weeH job as
affirmative action consultant
at MGM to dramatize his pro
test against what he calls is the
studio's foot-dragging on
minority hiring.
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Johnny Ma this is being
billed as the first American
entertainer torform before
a racially mixed ."audience in
.South Africa' when he goes
there this mohftt's not true;
other American ;artists have
appeared there before mixed
audiences. ; '
Isaac Hayes; who has filed
a' personal bankruptcy petition
for Se-millionlrfi debts has one
good note coming ' from his
housee. He and Dionne War
wick will team up for an ABC
album featuring a January
1hh rnnren
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that the Germans have an
entirely unique way of hearing
bass and drum sounds - more
than anything, Herbie sought
to bathe his , flute in that
particular sound when he
journeyed to Munich in
October. Working at the famed
Union Studios there with the
' Michael KunzeSylvester Le
vaySilver Convention team, he
emerged with a thoroughly
sensuous album that is key-
noted by its 13 minute open
ing titletune, an exploration
through the various sonic de
vices that characterize that
feeling of German "disco." If
the first side, featuring the
lushly romantic "ARIA" (al
ready picking up steam in
' Europe and Canada , as a
smash disco single) is the so
called Movemaking' side
then the second side has to be
' the 'dancing' side. There's a
potential new step-craze in
troduced in "BIRDWALK":
that familiar Soul Train -like
theme carried through
"YEARS OF LOVE"; and
Herbie's "pied" flute solos
that weave through is
composition, "THE PIPER."
Without any question, here
is his most fascinating en
deavor since Memphis, Mus
cle Shoals, Jamaica, and "HI
JACK" - destined to be
among his most commercially
successful albums as well.
Side One: Bird In A Sil
ver Cage Aria (with Penny
McLjean) Fly, Robin, Fly.
Side two: Birdwalk
Years Of Love The Piper
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Every Wed. 9 p.m - 1 a.m Open $3 Cover, Henry Bates,
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THE UNDERGROUND DISCO, 1205 Duke University Road
Durham - 7 days, 5 pjn. - 3 a.m. Memberships only,
Fletcher Burnett, mngr.
THE ROYAL VILLA HOTEL, Off Hgwy 1-85, Greensboro
7 days, 6:30 p.m. - 2 a.m Dinner 'till 9, Bill Stockwell,
in charge
DISCO '76, in Washington Duke Motor Inn, 605 W. Chpl.
Hill St., Durham, 7 days a week 8 p.m. - 1. Open with
cover. Memberships available. Cary Edgerton, manager.
THE MAIN EVENT, Durham - Chapel Hill Blvd. across from
he Blue Cross-Blue Shield Building, 7 days, 8-1 $2 plus
' membership.
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THE BABY GRAND CLUB, 915 Ramseur St., Durham. Fri.
& Sat. Live bands with name entertainment. 10 pjn.
3 ajn.
PARKWOOD (AFTER HOURS) RESTAURANT &
LOUNGE, 5124 Revere Rd., Durham. Sat'tU 1 a.m. - 6
days, Closed Sunday. 11:30 a.m. 11 p.m. Mond.-Fri.
"Red" Freeman, mngr.
RAMADA INN LOUNGE-DOWNTOWN, 600 Willard St.,
Durham - Thurs., Fri. & Sat., 9:15 - 1:15. Open at
4 pjn. Closed Sun. M-W 'til 12 p.m., Don McKeller,
mngr.
RED VELVET CLUB & RESTAURANT, 1222 N. Alston
. Ave., Durham Fri. & Sat., live bands, 9 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Closed Mon. W. J. Mitchell, mngr.
CHARLIE GOODN1GHTS, 861 W. Morgan St., Raleigh.
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January 8 - FUND RAISING GROUP TO SPONSOR BAKE
SALE - The Fund Raising Group Committee of the Y. E.
Smith School will sponsor a bake sale on Saturday from 10
a.m. until 5 p.m. at the South Square Shopping Center Mall.
Funds raised from the sale will go toward purchasing items
for the school programs.
January 8 - The- Durham Recreation Department invites
everyone to attend the Open House and Grand Opening of
the Edison Johnson Recreation Center at 600 W. Murray
Avenue. This new Recreation Complex features a gymnas
ium, three handball courts, a dance studio, a ceramics
pottery studio and several meeting rooms.
Activities begin at 10 ajn.. At 1 p.m. Mayor Cavin
and other city officials will conduct a formal ribbon cutting
ceremony. At 1:30 Brother Yusuf Salim and his trio will
perform and gymnastics instructor, John Row will conduct
a demonstration with competive gynmasts and filmed high
lights, of competitions during this. same time period (1:30
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. WUNC ' Radio and the
Folklore Department at UNC
Chapel Hill , will present the
' first in a five part series focus
ing on the musk and life native
to North Carolina each Satur-
'day at 8 pjn.. throughout
January. The programs are the
result of a grant from the
National Endowment for the
Arts, and feature such North
Carolina musicians as Willie
Brooks and Howard Cotton
from ' Chatham County,
Tommy Jarrell from Mount
Airy, and Cas Wallin of
Madison County.
The New Year's Day
premier program featured
"Primitive Baptist Music" re
corded during the past year in
both white and black churches.
On January 8, "Durham Blues"
which features recordings of
the music and reminiscences of
Durham musicians of the 1930
will be aired; and on January
IS, Cas Wallin will sing many
of the old British ballads in
his powerful, forceful style.
January 22 features "Chatham
County Lies and Blues," with
Willie Brooks and Howard
Cotton, old friends who play
the blues and tell tall tales.
And on the 29th, Tommy
Jarrell, a well-known fiddler
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stories about his experiences.
WUNC " Radio invites"
listeners torwrite the Station to
InssQtiral Concert To Fcstcro
Top Black Stars
WASHINGTON, D. C. -The
New Spirit Inaugural Con
cert, in honor of President
elect Carter, and Vice-President-elect
Walter Mondale, will
be held in the Opera House of
the Kennedy Center at 7 p.m.
January 19.
The concert will include
stars Sidney Poitier", Stevie
Wonder, Bette Davis, Jack
Albertson, Freddie Prinze, Jean
Stapleton, Redd Foxx, Lily
Tomlin, John Wayne, Joanne
Woodward, Shirley MacLaine,
Paul Newman and Henry
(Hank) Aaron.
For the first time the
traditional concert that pre-
Iff Ir" .
TIME OUT NECESSARY - Richard Pryor, best
known as a comedian is also a writer, actor, who takes
his work Very seriously. As a result, every year he takes
a two month, "time out," to work out new lines. He
says a comedian can't go out on the road with the
same material done on records as singers do, he has to
have new acts and jokes. (UPI).
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cedes a presidential inaugura
tion will be shared with the
television audience throughout
America and possibly through
out the world.
CBS Television Network
will tape the entertainment
live, broadcasting it on Jan. 19
within two hours after the
performances begin.
The announcement was
made by Bardyl Tirana and
Vickie Rogers, co-chairpersons
of the 1977 Presidential
Inaugural Committee and
Robert Wussler, president of
the network.
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