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week Page 4 M: Tr* * méi .“ 'M* -K H'i?- ; ~«ît?%.r~i t ' -f 1 •- -j'-Î-'KmJ-;».,®; .ff.S 2-TOWNSHIPS WEEK, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1981 Prophet lyrics from head, not heart Country music By DAVE frMULHOLLANP The Phantom ; Ronnie Prophet ; Vera Cruz Records; VCR-1014.Ronnie Prophet’s strength as a singer is his ability to entertain with tongue-in-cheek, story-telling songs.His weakness is his inability to express strong emotions.Both characteristics are apparent on this album.Prophet will have your undivided attention on The Phantom of the Opry, Angel Wings, Who Do You Do What To In Your Dreams, Every Story in the Book and Good Help Is Hard To Find., With solid support from Pete Drake’s bright, breezy production and arrangements, Prophet vividly describes zany, imaginative stories, mostly with a wry, off-the-wall twist.The songs bounce with life.But that aspect which enables him to put across those songs so convincingly, is anything but convincing when it comes to evoking deep emotions There’s a great deal of acting in Prophet’s singing.His “performing" of the song is what brings it alive.But that same “performing" sounds forced when the lyrics call for expression from the heart, not the head.On Honky Tonker and Let’s Just Be Lovers and Leave Love Alone, Prophet tries too hard to force emotions which should be there naturally.He thinks the words, rather than feels them.He does a commendable job on two straight-story songs.Livin’ and Lovin' Hondo and One More Feather in a Honky Tonk Angel’s Wing.Brown Paper Sack is a tasteless, sexist piece of crap that is best ignored.Overall, this is a most enjoyable album, with Prophet’s performance on five first-rate compositions and two very good ones making up for two weaker songs and one ignorant number.Out Where the Bright Lights Are Glowing; Ronnie Milsap; RCA Records; AAL1-3932.Ronnie Milsap’s genuine love, admiration and respect for Jim Reeves comes through in every song on this album.That’s what makes it more than just another tribute album to Reeves, who was killed in a car crash on July 31,1964.The music’s intense, emotional impact results from the marriage of Milsap’s expressive tenor and Reeves’ spirit.The partnership works to produce a truly great country album.Only the Hits; Billy Jo Spears; Liberty Records; LT-1074.Billy Jo Spears is one of the most underrated singers in country music, but this is not one of her better efforts.Spears performs 10 songs that have been major hits for other artists.She does a commendable job on What the World Needs Now Is Love, Desperado and Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad, but the other seven cuts are less than mediocre.Lay Down Beside Me, Everything Is Beautiful and Rose Garden are barely passable, and her rendering of Snowbird, Broken Lady, I Fall To Pieces and Bridge Over Troubled Water will only remind the listener of how good the originals were.Spears brings nothing new to the songs, nor does producer Larry Butler, who in some cases duplicates the original sound.I’m Countryfied; Mel McDaniel; Capitol Records; ST-12116.Mel McDaniel’s laid-back style is well-suited to these 10, solid mainline-country songs, which get better with each listen.Besides the title track, which is not Dick Damron’s composition, the album contains Hello Daddy, Good Morning Darling.McDaniel’s is appropriately “up” on the happy songs and “down” on the lost love laments, but whatever the mood, his voice has that “it’s good to be alive” ring.This is a solid album that will endure.Petty concert-goers find sex, drugs, rock and roll VANCOUVER (CP) -“Drugs, sex and rock n’ roll” was silk-screened across the chests of several teenage concert fans Saturday night.There were plenty of drugs available, and Tom Petty and the Heart-breakers provided the rock ’n’ roll.“Concerts are a place to party,” said Ann, 15, sitting in her 17-year-old boyfriend's car at 7 p m., quaffing a few beers in the parking lot before the show at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum.Police have cracked down on the action outside the Coliseum in recent weeks — 13 people were charged with drug offences at a June 23 concert by the rock group Rush.But there is little police can do once the lights go down and the band comes on stage.“Our presence alone is a deterrent,” says Vancouver police Sgt.Brian Honeybourn.Before the concert, uniformed police check parking lots surrounding the Coliseum.They find boozers and marijuana smokers.Usually the officers dump the tequila and beer — two of the biggest favorites with teens.And police either confiscate marijuana — if it’s in small quantities — or charge the individual Drunks are the biggest troublemakers, says Rosato follows Radnor, Aykroyd ‘Live’ footsteps TORONTO (CP) — Tony Rosato will follow the famed footsteps of Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner this fall when he joins NBC’s Saturday Night Live as a regular performer.Like Aykroyd and Radner — two former stars of the weekly television show who now have prospering comedic careers — Rosato is an alumnus of the Second City comedy troupe, which has one of its two headquarters in a renovated fireball in downtown Toronto.For the 25-year-old native of Naples, Italy, who emigrated to Canada when he was seven, his three-year contract with NBC is the latest step in a career that started almost by accident.Rosato went to see a Second City show after he graduated from the University of Toronto, where he studied to be a chiropractor At the performance, he met an old school friend, Peter Aykroyd, who told him the troupe held workshops run by John Candy, Andrea Martin and Joe Flaherty Rosato attended the workshops, was picked for the touring company, and four months later became a member of the Toronto group.Second City’s other troupe is based in Chicago.PAID NO SALARY But the touring company paid no weekly salaries.“We shared the box office," said Rosato.“One night we drew seven people at $4 each.” While with Second City, Rosato was chosen by Montreal movie producer Pierre David to appear in a high school comedy movie called Hog Wild.The title did not accurately describe audience reaction — the movie bombed.His only other movie role was a small speaking part in Improper Channels, starring Alan Arkin.“Movies haven’t done much for me,"said the rubber-faced comic.“But I’d like to do movies more than anything.” Rosato left Second City four months ago after only two years with the company.“Once it was a school where you stayed, but not now,” says Rosato.“The Second City name is recognized by producers who visit town.They come and make offers.You can get places quickly.” He views his NBC exposure in the same way.“You just don't turn down an opportunity to do a major show,” he says.“You go out there and do what you can to blow them away.You exploit it and use it for all you can.” Another Toronto Second City star.Robin Duke, will also join the NBC show, which has fallen on hard times recently.Although Rosato is signed for three years, he'll be out of work if the fledgling 90-minute show fails to return to form.Honeybourn, so police try to curtail pre-concert drinking to avoid serious brawls inside the concert.KEEP LOW PROFILE By making their presence known, Honeybourn said, police seem to have a soothing influence on the crowd.“We want to take a low-key approach.” The PNE also has its own staff, usually young female ushers.“Some guy might take a punch at another guy, but very few would do that if it’s a cute, 18-year-old girl,” said Bill Joyner, PNE spokesman.“He knowns damn well the rest of the crowd would jump on him.” The bouncers are between 25 and 50 young male athletes, often from football and rugby teams.If there is a small fight, these athletes will grab the guilty parties and escort them outside.Joyner says about 10 people are ejected from the average rock concert, which can attract 16,000 or 17,000 people.Usually only a couple of fans are char4ed.He adds that “punk and new wave groups are where most of the problems come from.” As fans enter the Coliseum, they are given a body search at the door by male or female ushers.Neither the staff nor police take any action when they see someone smoking marijuana in their seats, Rick Valouche, a PNE bouncer.« “They have six to eight undercover cops outside,” he said.“But once they (the fans) are inside, the police don’t make any arrests — that could start a riot in here.” Quebec film maker not driven by success CALGARY (CP) - For Jean Pierre Lefebvre, a 39-year-old Quebec filmmaker who has made 16 features in the last 16 years on budgets ranging from $14,000 to $360,000, commercial success has never been a driving force.Lefebvre's films, in his words, try to engage with new realities — and thus bound to present difficulties to audiences saturated with Hollywood movies.In Calgary recently to hold workshops with independent film-makers, he said it is important to start little by little and keep getting feedback.“A cinema more poetic than dramatic can suprise people at first sight,” he said.“It takes time, like learning to appreciate abstract painting.I try to make films which are very sensual, which speak of simple things.” The Last Betrothal, a 1973 film about an old country couple preparing themselves to die, was rejected by the National Film Board as “too intellectual,” he said.“But it is now the Canadian film which has been seen by the most people in the world.” WON PRIZES The Last Betrothal failed commercially during its first run in Quebec when critics panned it.But it went on to win several prizes in Europe and make large television sales.So far, it has been seen by a potential worldwide television audience of 42 million, including viewers in Quebec, where it returned to show on prime time.In the last four years, Lefebvre has been studying perception, subjecting groups of people for several days to total immersion in visual and sound images.People are still being educated in words and numbers, he said, while at the same time being bombarded by TV, film and recorded sound.“Sound is even more dangerous, if I can use that term, than images,” said Lefebvre.“We don’t think about it, but it affects the subconscious directly.But each human being has his own rhythm and we are in danger of being standardized.I would Kke to write some simple little books about images, color and sound like recipe books, not highly theoretical — that’s been done many times.” TOWNSHIPS WEEK, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1981-3 It’s a sad summer for pop music fans Boogie buffs sit out dry spell By Nelly Young These are sad summer days for pop music in the Townships and Quebec City.Last week fire totally destroyed l'Auberge des Pins It was the home of La Poupee, the only music club catering to blues and rock with a policy of bringing international recording artists to the Townships.Just last night, James Cotton, the blues man s bluesman, was slated to perform with his band.Daniel Rodrigue, the club’s owner, had booked and signed contracts with other greats like the veteran Papa John Creach, R & U king Willie Dixon and Woodstock star Richie Havens.All would have appeared in the coming weeks and each represented a first-time visit to this neck of the woods./ 1 \ \ iJSr: '0^ James Cotton, top, and Willie Dixon, bottom, would have made a first-time visit to the Townships area.Now boogie woogie buffs will have to go to Montreal or sit out the dry spell The Townships are not the only place to lose a showcase for hot rock acts Uist summer James Cotton was one of about 40 acts at Quebec's inaugural “Murs de sons" ((Walls of Sound) International Music Festival Rut hot on the heels of an impressive press kit for the second annual one-week festival, set to begin August 8.came a brief notice (hat organizers had been forced to cancel the entire event.Festival spokesperson Jacques Cote explained that the opening concert by Styx could not be staged because the newly renovated Colisee de Quebec was unable to handle the 24,000 pounds of light and sound equipment the Styx show required W'ithout Styx to blast open the Walls of Sound, Quebec’s international festival became unprofitable.I^st year, the festival, a tribute to the sounds of the times - blues, jazz, rock, folk, québécois presented a highly ambitious program grouping together big name artists such as Oscar Peterson, Big Mama Thornton, the McGarrigle Sisters, Max Webster, John Hammond, the Chicago All Star Blues Revue, Paul Winter, Plume Latraverse, Jim Corcoran and more Pitting these against one another by scheduling concerts in competing time slots, the organizers cut their own throats as they sliced up their potential audience.Some cancellations, a very contested show by the “New" Deep Purple and a complicated ticket-sale system did not help matters.Despite a respectable attendance figure of 66 per cenl for some 40 shows ( more than a dozen of them free i, l^es Productions Le Cafe lost heavily.Still, with no government support and limited financial resources, the organizers felt they had made significant inroads in the Quebec music market and were keen to do it again this summer.Learning from last year's mistakes, they arranged a simple decentralised ticket system through Ticketron across the province as well as several local outlets in the city The programming was more cautious and better spaced In addition to Styx, touted as the most popular rock group in the world, Quebec’s own success story, Offenbach was to bring down the Walls of Sound on August 11.Sandwiched in between were Muddy Waters and Richie Havens on a double bill, a return of Oscar Peterson with a trio, Quebec’s latest singing seasation Diane Tell, a notable representative of the classical music scene, Andre Laplante, Paul Brunelle, Diane Robert and others.Free concerts and musical activities for kids were also planned.It is not known if, after this year’s sudden cancellation, the festival organizers will attempt the even greater hurdle of a comeback in 1982.As for La Poupeee, “elle fait non, non, non, non, non” as the popular sixties song goes.The kewpee doll figure will once again decorate the wall of a discotheque to be rebuilt on the original site in Georgeville, a hot spot scorched by an arson’s hand last autumn Daniel Rodrigue is not about to give up and can’t believe he is apt to fall victim to fire a third time Having lost his shirt twice, he is reluctant to set a definite opening date.Sometime in November is as far as he’ll go.But local rhythm and blues buffs can at least look forward to a September 19 Powder Blues Band concert and a later gig by Dutch Mason, both to be promoted by Daniel and his team in an as yet undetermined Sherbrooke location.ri'.> » 4—TOWNSHIPS WEEK, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1981 '¦Ays Jimmy Carter's brother Billy, still as outspoken as ever, says Jimmy’s four years as president of the United States aged him 20 years.Four years as president aged Jimmy Carter 20 years, says his brother Billy Carter.“I spent a good bit of time with him this past weekend and again Monday,” he said Wednesday Moreover, the final five months in office aged his brother 10 years.Carter said.“He hated to lose, but I think he’s adjusting back to normal life, if you can call a man with seven or eight secret service men following him around still normal life,” Carter said of his older brother.“He’s relaxing.He’s writing a book and doing a lot of trout fishing.” “Height does not mean anything.” says actor Billy Barty, the first little person to get a star on Hollywood Boulevard “The only space barrier you maybe have to conquer is the one between your ears.” Barty, 56, who stands 3-feet-9, has been acting, singing and dancing for more than 50 years in several hundred television shows and almost 150 films, including Day of the Locust and Foul Play.He was honored by the Walk of Fame Committee on Wednesday, which dedicated its 1,733rd star to him.Thika, the first African elephant born in Canada, will be the beneficiary of a $15,000 donation by Steve McMillan, president of Electrolux Canada, to the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo on Saturday.Thika, who was born in October, 1980, to proud parents, Tequila and Tantor, weighed 200 lbs.at birth.“She has since gained 300 lbs.and will continue to put on approximately 1.2 lbs.a day for the next 20 years,” said the zoo’s overseer, Toby Styles.Electrolux chose to sponsor Thika because the company’s sales logo features a charging bull elephant.Keeping up New York’s Mayor Ed Koch joined several hundred expatriate Canadians on Wednesday night to mark Dominion Day in New York Koch told the Canadian Club of New York gathering that the next time he left the city it would be to visit Canada, but added, “I get the bends every time 1 go north of the Bronx.” The mayor also praised Canada’s former ambassador to Iran, Ken Taylor, for his help in getting six American hostages out of that country.Mountains of Nova Scotia salmon, New Brunswick raspberries, Ontario wine and cases of Canadian beer provided the appropriate Northern flavors for the party.Did tennis bad boy John McEnroe upset Lady Diana Spencer at centre court at the Wimbledon tennis tournament Thursday?It looked like it and British newspapers said so.The fiancee of Prince Charles left the royal box at the end of the explosive first set in McEnroe's semifinal match against Rod Frawley of Australia after seeing McEnroe protest line calls and throw back his head and yell: “I hate umpires — I get screwed by them in this place.” He was warned for unsportsmanlike behavior and that seemed to be enough for officials.They escorted Lady Diana away to tea and she spent the rest of the afternoon watching a doubles match on No 1 court.Veterans said it was against tradition for a royal box occupant to make such a switch.The incident got lots of coverage in the London newspapers today.A Daily Express headline read, “Beauty and the Beast — Lady Diana is ushered off as Mac throws new tantrum,” while The Daily Mirror ran two photographs of Lady Diana looking displeased and said she finally wrinkled her nose and left.Testy tennis player John McEnroe greatly upset the future Queen of England during his play at Wimbledon, forcing Ladi Di to leave the Royal box during one of his matches.If you just sit You won’t quit Being unfit.pamiapacnonW® THE HUT Army, Navy & Airforce Unit 318 DANCE July 11 Black & White Members