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punk-Funk mo Rick James To gul Rick James will ap- * M AppearMr Mr pear in conc:ert Saturday 4n rfie j Greensboro' C(>liseum. Accompanying M In Concert SalllirflUV James on the pnJgram willI 1 be Ray1 Parker ^ Jr., of "The Other Woman" and "Jack ' ^HjjB. ^ By LaTanya A. Isley South Africa and its local personalities, and and Jill" fame and the Dazz Band, which M Staff_ Writer will be at 3 it's "Oldies" has scored well i apartheid policy p.m.. ecently with the hit single ^ discussed on "Tony time until 5 p.m., featur- "Let It Whip." Are you feeling lazy, Brown's Journal" ing some of the best "old relaxed, .or just this Sunday at 10:30 gold" around. downright bored? If so, p.m. on Channel 26. Sundays are packed then you're looking in Debating the subject will with excitement as the right place to find a be Randall Robinson, such as 4'Blackprograms v great variety of enter- executive director of Issyes and Black Press" tainment to satisfy your TransAfrica, and Gert airs^at 1 p.m. and the AI mood. Grobler, South African jazz"program "Progres- Perhaps the greatest consul general in sions from-6 p.m. until « -1 I v 9 event going on this week j Chicago. President iL ^R is the Rick "Give It To Ronald Reagan also Houfr," spotlighting M Me Baby" James com makes comments on the new albums, is weekdays cert in the Greensboro country's position from 12:30-2 p.m. ^ a at fnwarH ^rmth Afrira - Coliseum Saturdav 8 , wH JH 'lUWr ^Bt*' ^M r ;K ^Hm&? "* R1 K jM p.m. featuring the Dazz To catch the latest on WQMG-97 FM Band and Ray Parker what's going^on with the a jazz program Sun-.offsrs Jr. Rick has black woman in ' !<*. proven today's 'I H I1 jl many times that i»is con- society watch hostess which features the best in certs are worth the Freda Payne and her reggae, b^ies, money and. with Ray many interesting guests porary and mainstreamcontem. Parker along with him, on "Today's Black and from ' jazz weekdays ^ ladies it should also be Woman", Sundays at 7 noon ®*^ i ^ /' vVl* %nfc*^M worth the traveling a.m. on Channel 12. fers a similas program distance.x One form of entertairiJ Hot '^9 Also in Greensboro ment that's cheap^and^ 7!SSB ^ this week is the weekly sometimes portable is the 3KjKi£^ ^=~ ~T jazz m i n T-c o hce Ft radio whichcanbe -For.a. lifUe cultural- M ^*~v .- Plazazz downtown on mative as well as funky^infor\ entertainment^ the Litltle HJNKtMBita^^^^^^^fiHl .-»-... .. j^^__o^1*_^^M[^dfcj_L^^, the Governmental Plaza, On WAAA airs Fridays . Theatre of Tuesdays at 12:15 p.m. "Talk About Town" will be presentingWinstonSalem Get a lunch partner (if with hosts State Side to don't have one) and ander and Ben Jones,Alexyou the community this drive over to what's go- Saturdays offer weekend at Rudolph I on with jazz on the sonalities in the "Pering 7:30 munity," interviewsComplaza.with p.m. At Carowinds A <^Q Doobies,Taylor To Perform

CHARLOTTE . Two on Sunday, Aug. 1. You flunnin\" "Minute Friend," "How Sweet It superstar acts will fill the The Doobie Brothers, By Miinute" and many Is-," "Your Smiling Carowinds Paladium after 12 years together others Face," "Handyman" with mnsir nn r h p with.fWfr. Ptt ^ I / artist James Taylor and^'Her Town Too." lu| weekend of July 31 and million records sold begar 1 his recording Tickets to each concert careei in lA^O Ml I « " Aug. worldwide and four in i7uo wun j win oe soia on tne aay ot The Doobie Brothers, Grammy.Awards,.will. es Taylor,!' the the show on a first-come, Lirst_ 4 as ^a part ^>f their major . -5.^ outside"^aCt sign- first-sei ved ... disband at the end of the farewell tour, will eappear^ ea 10 Pf4 tn Beatles' newly- mission will hashr.Arithebe $3.00 in in concert in the summer. forme addition to the ^Tell Carter, Leslie Uggams, Etc. By Sasso won't use she wants left off the record. f Joey anything telescope 60 years of black history in America. make it." I don't she answers "Oh, care," cheerfully. 4working anti-poverty pro- . In "Private soon to enter its third NBC publishers, producer Alvin Cooperman and one of the hasn't seen lean Benjamin," lucky few, many Uggams, gram in Columbus, Ohio," says Williams, now one seasc Williams Ted Ross. He and Eileen me. One senses immediately this won't be any times in her career, which at age 6, >n, plays Sgt. 33-year began of the stars of CBS' "Private Benjamin." Williams, Brei who is were both in the businesslike interview. And one findsrun-ofthe-millout when she played Ethel Waters' niece in the old inan, Capt. Lewis, who plays the sergeant caught between Pvt. Judy movi le with Goldie Hawn. He the role in the right away that Nell is big on teasing. 44Beulah" series. Then there was a Columbia got Benjamin and Capt. Doreen Lewis, felt he had reach- movi e when he answered a call and She pores over a set of taken in casting photographs Records contract, and at 17, stardom, singing old ed the end of his 441 was divorced and I ed fc with her NBC June 21 "Ain't rope. recently it. He says, "Goldie was there and sheaudition>rasked conjunctionreliables for three years on Mitch Miller's 44Sing was " becoming more frustrated with my job," he me t<3 demonstrate how I was to lift her off the special, making comments such as, Misbehavin'"Well, With Mitch." Then and, in 1967, going Along nightclubs says. "I sat down and said, 'What is the one thing I'd ground when she was She was they all look nice, except my butt looks big. Which There also was a award for her doing pushups. Broadway. Tony enjoy doing?' Everybody has a secret 'I wont to work with. She set the tone for it's not. I'm very small. I weigh 110, you know...Is debut in thing. Spy' ierful the impressive "Hallelujah, Baby!,"exuberant,was a hit and Bill Cosby was one of the stars. I told whole film. You'd never know that stie was also the that recorder on? I don't trust you. Geesh!" I says I the Arthur Laurents-Jule musical that tried to Styne my parents it looks like black actors might be able to execijtive producer." i Pnpfir /)i»ttensions What's in this circus? WHAT'S YOUR your purpose And I'll gladly point the way, , Enj >oy now from the "Big Apple" of New York... Won't you inform us, please? Cause I ain't got time to figure your part PURPOSE? In another play. By Furman D. Richardson FEELING LOVE Standing there looking foolish By Toye Kim Pevnberton What's your purpose in this circus? AZZIE Sho' ain't no way for you to be, What act are you in? fld Cause we've got work to do, and Won't you please tell us, WAGNER Hoin' vonrc fr»r Love is freedom So we can begin? 4JF of the mind Expressed through Tell us what act you're performing, and emotions "Are you performing with the clowns? Cause we got work to do . ^Where you want to go, And I must be They're standing over there. Right up to our knees. Cause you're holding up progress, and in love 'cause Won't you please inform us? I sho'nuff Cause we're to go somewhere. Tell me where you want to go One monkey don't stop no show. trying t feel free.

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