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Alli«>n Brandin, Ztk~ Fishhnd. Jon Fooso. Carol Gniady, Tad Jonos. Jon Nowlin, Ric Oli•i~r. Diana R-nbcrg. Kalamu ya Salaam. Sh~pard Samu~ls. ~n~ Scaramuuo, Hammond Scott. Almost Slim. Ktith Twitcholl. W~ldon w -o N Nancy . Ln Whit~. William D. Whit~ . 0 •o- Wu•·tltn/lth is publis~ monthly in N~ Orleans. Tolopho~ (S04) 89$-2342. "''I Mail Back issu.. ar~ a•ailablo by writina 10 Back lssu... P.O. Box 1$667, N<-w Orloans. LA. 7017$. B«au"' or a l imit~ supply. back issu ------~No~v~•m~~r1~~~ aq~~th3 NOVEMBER NEWS Irma Thomas Signs With Rounder lnna Thomas, who for decades has been one of New Orleans' favorite entertainers, has signed a new recording pact with Rounder Records, of Cambridge, Massa chusetts. The 43-year-old song stress first recorded for the Ron label in 1959, and had a hit imme diately with "You Can Have My Husband,'' which reached the lower portion of the national R&B charts. A number of local hits followed in the early Sixties on the Minit label, including "It's Rain Ing," "I Did My Part," and "Ruler Of My Heart" among others. Recordwise, Ms. Thomas' biggest year was 1964, when four of her singles crashed the Billboard Hot 100, including "Wish Some one Would Care," which peaked at Number 17. Although she never repeated her chart success, she continued a string of excellent records which appeared on Chess, Canyon, Roker, RCS and Sansu. In signing with Rounder, Ms. Thomas will wax her first album since the Safe With Me effort, recorded in 1980. Preliminary plans call for the session to take place in February, With a possible release date as early as the 1985 Jazz and Heritage Festival. -Almost Slim Irma's up in the air over new EP. Ripping The Rock Dash Riprock was Ellie Mae Clampett's Hollywood stud boy friend on the Beverly Hillbillies. Dash Riprock is also a high energy rockabilly trio out of Baton Rouge who approach their work with youthful enthusiasm and an emphasis on having fun. Consider their version of Johnny Cash's "Get Rhythm," a study in garage dynamics: starts out fairly straight Cash-style, towards the middle they bring it way down low, real cool, and just when you expect a fade out, they're blasting at you full volume a Ia Jason and The Scorchers. Add a handful of re spectable originals and you just might find a prescription'for some serious post-adolescent rug cut ting. Keep an eye out for Clarke MarUy, Big Bill Davis and Hoaky Ned Hickel next time you're scan ning the club calendars ... tell 'em Jethro sent ya. -rico Double Treble Those eyeglasses! That baby face! That soon-to-be-distended upper lip! It's gotta be Wynton! NO! It's Marlon! AND Wynton! Marlon Jordan (Kent's little brother) joined the New Orleans . Symphony on Octoter 9 at the Theatre For The Performing Arts in one of a series of Young Peo ple's Concerts for area public school students. The World's Most Famous And Well-Publicized Jazz Musician, Wynton Marsalis, stopped by to wish his li'l buddy good luck and pose for a few quick photos. Marlon practically brought the house down with his inspired trum pet solo, as his fellow students caJJed him back onstage with deaf ening applause. Looks like the stage could be set for another world-class musician to emerge from the N.O.C.C.A. building ... all he needs now is some new glasses. -rico Marlon Jordan and Wynton Marsalis-N.O.C.C.A. grads are bad. The debut LP from llOilill/ Elllf liND 1Jil tREW he trumpet sound of Bobby Ellis has T been a part of Burning Spear's music for years. -F rom ska. to mento, to reggae, people "SHAKA" The debut LP from Bobby Elis who know the Jamaican sound know DA102 Bobby Ellis. Also avaolable on CHROME cassette (DA 102cs) ow hear "Shaka," "Pep-Up," "Cutlass," N"Three Rnger Jack," and more great songs written, produced, arranged and directed by Bobby Ellis. C 0 M N G S 0 0 N Burning Spear drummer Nelson Miller turns producer with The Two Ton Machine debut album " CHINATOWN." This great dance record features five new vocalists and a thunderous rhythm section. Enjoy the reggae versions of "Guitar Man, .. "Broken OIILY 011 Hearted Melody," and much more. DIStributed by IMPORTANT, CITY HAll and GREAT BAY RECORD DISTRIBUTORS Or order by maol from Oublab Rerords. 1537A 4th St .• San Rafael. CA 94901 • (415) 492·9733 RECORDS & TAPES GOLDEN MOMENTS ALMOST SLIM A Hit By Accident FALL 1970-King Floyd, an employee of the United States Postal Service, is stopped by THE FUTURECOPY PLACE WYLD deejay Harrison Verrett, on his way to work. Verrett Copies • Reductions • Enlargements informs Floyd that he intends to Photos • Binding • And much more! Passport play his new single, recorded two months previously in Jackson Mississippi, the very next day on the radio. (Floyd had had no luck leasing the single to a major company and finally the two sides were released on the tiny King Floyd. Chimneyville label, which was associated with the Jackson and crosses over on the New HOT Studio.) Floyd tunes in the next Orleans stations. Atlantic becomes morning but to his horror and interested in the single for the amazement, Verrett is airing the national market and it promptly PRICES wrong side of the single! He shoots to number one in the R&B immediately informs the deejay of charts and number six in the pop his error, but is told that the side charts, selling more than a million being played is the one everyone copies by Christmas. The record, goes for. As Verrett plays the B of course, is the funky "Groove side of his record, Floyd returns to Me," which has served as the high work, resigned to his song dying water mark for Floyd's colorful on the vine. But a strange thing career. happens. The record gathers steam - Almost Slim NEW BANDS ALLISON BRANDIN academic training. Says Scott, "We all speak the same Ballad language." Noting that' some of the best songwriters were Meets Funk untrained, he compares music to cooking, "Someone who learns cott Detweiler and his band, cooking at home learns the hard Organized Noise, appear on way, while someone who has gone S stage with a certain playful to chef school knows all the short defiance. This may be due to an cuts." It makes it easier to write anticipated animosity towards the and then communicate the sight of Detweiler's acoustic guitar complexities of his music when by those conditioned to the vapid everyone understands the jargon. clammering of Quiet Riot and Detweiler has studied jazz Ratt. Ironically, Detweiler and performance (under Bill Organized (Paul Clements on bass) Huntington) among other things at Noise (Billy Schell on drums) are Loyola Music School, had two more than capable of unleashing years of theory and composition at emotionally charged music, albeit University of New Orleans and is in a civilized manner. currently studying orchestration Admittedly an acoustic guitar is with Ellis Marsalis. His homework not unique and has seen a recent assignment is to orchestrate his rebirth of popularity due to bands song "Come to Me" for a full like Big Country and Aztec symphony. Accordingly, says Camera, but these groups Detweiler with a sigh, "It's a lot of Eighties pop meets early Sixties work." rock-are a far cry from Detweiler Clements (or Organized), a and O.N., who are more like recent graduate of Rummel High ballad meets funk. Inevitable School and now a psychology comparisons to the already famous major at U.N.O., has had a wealth will be made, though on any given of experience despite his tender WELCOME TO song this trio only faintly age. Some of his mentors include MILLER TIME resembles the likes of Crosby, Tim Aucorn and Gary Parker (of at the WORLD'S FAIR Stills, and Nash all the way to Don Boys Town/ Pop Combo) and a McLean. And since they do only stint of stage time with the band originals the band's favorite influ Mirrors. Incredibly deft at his CATCH THE SHEIKS ences are cleverly camouflaged. trade already, Clements was Detweiler, leader of the group, is skeptical at doing ballads feeling on Fulton Street not a dictator. All hold up their that his "heart is in Motown." But every Monday & Wednesday Nites corner of the triangle and there is he has managed a successful an inherent feeling of trust among marriage of the two styles, each everyone. Detweiler who has clearly identifiable. aucio·technica gauss QJ£, (MXR J played in several garage bands and Drummer Billy Schell seems the played solo during the past year, obvious source of energy on and feels the skillful interplay is due in off stage, his nuttiness nicely part to everyone's musical juxtaposed · with the quiet Midnight to 4 A.M. Luther Kent and Trick Bag Friday. Saturday and Sunday Midnight to 4 A.M. James Rivers Movement Scott Detweiler (left) with Organized Wednesday and Thursday (Paul Clements, right) Noise (Billy 4 A.M. to 7 A.M. Schell, center): What thoughts are Invitational lurking deep in their organized minds? Jam Session refinement of the others. ScheU is Instrumental dexterity. is only (Progressive Jazz with also a student at U.N.O. though one characteristic of their music. Blues Overtones) his musical education comes from Detweiler has a superbly powerful Friday. Saturday and Sunday two years of study with New voice, controlled and delicate at Orleans Symphony percussionist times. His lyrics are written in a David DeGroot, and the popular poetical Renaissance style, TRADITIONAL• though short-lived Moderns. absorbed with sad observances of Schell was also unsure about our world along with an occasional JAZZ playing Detweiler's music at first woeful love song. The tunes are Every night at 8 P.M. to Midnight because of the constant changes in not all serious-some of the lyrics rhythms and dynamics and the are absurdist or nonsensical - nor overall complexity of the music. is the delivery plaintive or preachy, "It's not all 1-2-3-4 count, it was a just speculative, making one FOOD challenge; but now that I know it wonder why such thoughts are Varied menu plus a good finger food works my attitude has definitely lurking deep in the mind of this selection. A great place for late changed." Though Scott is the candidate for school girl idol. 0 night or early morning breakfast. essential writer, Schell has a talent Try our house special. for arrangement and is particularly NOTE: Scott Detweiler and Bouillabaisse! fond of sharp endings and Organized Noise will be appearing beginnings so that if the middle is a as the opening oct for Arlo DANCING bit weak you nonetheless go out Guthrie at the Saenger, Thursday, One of the very few dance floors in with a bang." · November 15. the French Quarter. IN THE FRENCH QUARTER John Casablanca$, the man responsible for the careers of many of the World's Top Models is looking for new·faces - it could be you. Men or 1104 DECATUR STREET women experienced or not- Training Available. 525-8199 . on it for 15 or 20 minutes. While this is great for setting a mood (some, like Searching for my Love, are wonderful), it doesn't fit into the American preference for quick, instant gratification. The Island albums, on the contrary, Juju Music, Synchro System and now Aura, take musical ideas that encompass at least a dozen igerian albums and incorporate them irt short, excellent songs. · ~ian jtiju music is especially p easing,_ to the ears of New Oileanians because of the talking dtums which add 4percussive bass so o~ tpat giv the music that fu pass and urns punch that ra(:!_;rizes our ~n R&B/ funk lc;at)J.ngs. nd Sunny Ade in parij.~lar am,q g juju artists has incorpc;>.rated · ond-line bass lines and stQdio pr uction techniques -~!1!~~·~ "· _...... ,tba,_ t Vte *" even closer to ns ~ es. 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And now with a long overdue Number One LP and single, she has also gained mainstream acceptance as a solo artist who effortlessly straddles the worlds of R&B and rock and roll. Look ing suitably provocative in black leather, and greeted by an adoring sold-out house, Tina swept onto the stage of LA's Beverly Theater and proceeded to give an inspired, high-energy performance of her greatest hits that dispelled any lin gering suspicions that she might be Hottest Videos slowing down. With hardly a pause for air, she belted out such old favorites as New videos added to MTV: "River Deep, Mountain High" and "I'm Leaving You" Scorpions (Mercury) " Nutbush City Limits," sandwiched be "Who Wears the Shoes" Elton John tween newer cuts like " Private Dancer," (Geffen) the catchy "I Can't Stand the Rain," and "Out of Touch" Hall & Oates (RCA) her current mega-hit, "What's Love Got to do with lt." But while Tina was in top "Lap of Luxury" Jethro Tull (Chrysalis) form, her band and tacky s tage set were "Strung Out" Steve Perry (Columbia) strangely out of tune with her perform " No More Lonely Nights" Paul ance. Why she chose to appear alongSide McCartney (Columbia) some amateurish-looking pictures of "All I Want Is Everything" Aztec leopards with eyes that lit up is a Camera (Warner Bros.) mystery, and the band, while compe " Long_ Blond Animal" Golden Earring tent, was pedestrian and dull. Tina is still (Polygram) "Into the Fire" Dokken (Eiektra) " Eve of Destruction" Red Rockers (Columbia) "Kiss Me Red" Dreams (Columbia) "Once in a Lifetime" Talking Heads (Warner Bros.) On Tour ••. Heavy rotation on MTV: U2 was hailed as "The Next Who" in the wake of the 1982 album, War, and American tour. "Infatuation" Rod Stewart (Warner Now this Irish band has returned with a Brian Eno produced LP, Unforgettable Fire, and Bros.) extensive American roadwork. On record, U2's sound appears to have dropped a few dec " Drive" Cars (Elektra) ibels and become a bit spacier (due to Eno's influence, no doubt). But on stage, U2 con " Blue Jean" David Bowie (EMI) tinues to fuel their attack with aggressive guitaring and booming rhythm grooves . "Sexy Girl" Glenn Frey (MCA) at her explosive best when she has some one to play off, and the portly key "Missing You" John Waite (EMI) boardist was sadly no substitute for In the Studio . • . " You Better Be Good to Me" Tina either the famous lkettes or last year's Top of Thomas Dolby stopped by Criteria Turner (Capitol) long-legged back-up singers. But Tina Studios in Miami recently to add some " Going Insane" Lindsay Buckingham brought the show to a volcanic climax the Charts synthesizer tracks to George Ointon's (Elektra) with her own version of ZZ Top's No. Albums Singles upcoming Capitol Records LP. Engi " Lights Out" Peter Wolf (EMI) "Legs," and versions of two songs that neering the sessions were Richard Acror highlight both her R&B roots and rock 1 Tonight ''Let's Go Crazy .. and Stan Lambert ... At Control Center and roll instincts-a searing " Let's Stay Oawicl Bowie Prince in Hollywood, CA Naked Prey are at Critic's Choice Together" and equally ferocious "Proud (EMI) (Warner Bros.) work on a new mini album. The disc is to lain Blair Watches Tina Turner Mary." With a more stylish band and 2 Pllantoms .. Drive.. be released on Down There Records, a Strut Her Stuff stage design, this would have been one Flu Cars (MCA) (Eiektra) label which has been inactive since 1982 Simply put, Tina Turner is a phenome of the best gigs of the year- as it was, it but which is being reactivated by Steve non. At somewhere around the half cen was still a personal triumph for an artist 3 Born in the USA .. Hard Habit to Break.. Wynn of the Dream Syndicate. It will be tury mark, she looks better, moves better who, in her own words, "has only just Bruce Springsteen Cllicago (Columbia) (Columbia) distributed by another Los Angeles in and sings better than most kids half her started." die, Enigma Records. At work on the 4 Purple Rain .. I Just Called to Say Prince I Love You .. record is a virtual Who's Who of LA un (Warner Bros.) Stevie Wonder derground bands. Dan Stuart of Green (Motown) on Red is producing while Paul B. Cutler 5 Go Insane .. Lucky Star .. of 45 Grave is engineering ... Former Undsay Madonna Bow Wow Wow vocalist Anabella Lu Bucki:':,llam (Warner Bros.) win is at New York's Greene Street Re (Eiektra cording working on a solo album for 6 Edd.e & .. MISSIIlQ You .. RCA. John Robie is producing. Rod Hui The Cru1sers Jolin Waite is e ngineering, with assistance from Soundtract (EM I) (Scotti Bros ) Erika Klein. Greene Street also recently hosted producer Don Was, .. Shebop.. who cut an 7 Instincts album for EMl artis t David Basley. Rod Romeo VOid ~di Lauper (CBS! ( rtrart) Hui and Joe Arnold were at the board .. . Ardent Recording in Memphis, TN 8 No Breaks .. On the Dark Side .. John Waite John Callerty 6 was the scene of some sessions with Lou (EM I) Beaver Brown Rawls, w ho is at working on his new al (Scotti Bros.) bum. Joe Hardy engineered; Henry 9 Heartbeat C1ty .. Some Gr. Have Bush assisted ... Unique Recording in Cars all the Lu .. New York is hosting several major proj (Eiektra) Rod Stewart ects. Pop Svengali Malcolm Mclaren is (Warner Bros.) producing his Madam Butterfly LP for 10 R1ff Raff .. canbbean Queen .. Chrysalis Records. Co-producing with Dave Edmunds Billy Ocean McLaren is Robbie Kilgore. Michael iColumbia) (JIVe Ansta) Finlayson and Tom Lord are engineer Courtesy of The Gavm Report, a na/Jonal radiO ing, with assistance from Jeff Neiblum. muSIC trade JOUrnal Meanwhile, in another room at Unique, Fred Schneider of the B-52's is complet ing some recording for his Warner Bros. Personal Favorites solo album. Ted Currier is producing the Former Runaway Lita Ford picks her record. Steve Pecorella and Bob Rossa favorite LP's: 1. Balls to the Wall, Ac are engineering; Claudia Engelhart is as 17 mg. Ntar". cept; 2. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, sistant engineer ... Former Patti Smith Warn ing: The Surgeon General Has Determined 1.3 mg. nicotine AC/DC; 3. Never Mind the Bollocks, Band guitarist Lenny Kaye was at New That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. av. per cigarette Sex Pistols; 4. Heaven and Hell, Black York's Sorcerer Sound recently, working Sabbath; 5. Screaming for Vengeance, on a project with Go Agami for Nippon by FTC method. Judas Priest. Columbia. HOT VINYL BY RICO You're Gone" is more like Wild Kenny Rogen West be-bop and side one Vs. The Garage concludes with the hilarious "Var mint Dancing" that finds Too Slim Disease on all fours with his "sap rising., Side two is more, much more, of f last month's broadcast of the the same cowpunching insanity Country Music Awards televi from these brilliant nostalgists; I sion show is reflective of the and the crystal-clear production current condition of country only adds to the fun. Weird, but music, then country music needs a beautiful. priest, fast. Fifty-five minutes of Kenny . Rogers, Alabama, and Lionel Ritchie; five minutes of peaking of weirdos, those Bill Monroe, Aoyd Tillman, and great folks at Rhino Records Waylon Jennings. S (who gave us The Best Of Fortunately, there remains a Louie Louie and The World's growing number of large and small Worst Records) have come up with record companies that have another hot biscuit in the form of a continued to provide us with Sun's Greatest Hits picture disc. classic (and often downright weird) But it's not exactly a picture disc, releases in country and rockabilly. it's a 12-inch authentic reproduc Let's crank the quartz-locked Vic tion of the original yellow Sun trola and give 'em a spin ... Records label, artfully sandwiched First up is Rounder Records, between two sheets of clear vinyl. whose Special Series follows up Electromechanically etched onto their landmark Ernest Tubb the surface of said vinyl sandwich release Honky Tonk Classics are the hottest sides of Sun's (SS14) with another great collec hottest rock 'n rollers, minus Elvis tion of oldies called Burn The the P. Jerry Lee Lewis ("Great Honky Tonk Down (SS15) by Balls of Fire, .. "Whole Lotta George Jones. Jones• recording Shakin' Goin' On"), Carl Perkins career took him from Pappy ("Honey Don't," "Blue Suede Daily's Starday label in the mid Shoes"), Warren Smith ("Ubangi Fifties, on to Mercury, United Stomp"), Edwin Bruce ("Rock Artists, and then back to Daily's Boppin' Baby"), plus Junior Musicor label from 1965 to 1971. Parker, Roy Or bison, Sunny The songs on this reissue were Burgess, and Dickie Lee. Serious mostly rescued from the Musicor bop collectors will probably own vaults by way of a lawsuit that much of this material already, but Rounder won with MCA, I think, what a party record! Even if but that' s not really important. you've spun this stuff till you're What is important is that classic blue, you can do like famous music Electric Basses sides like "Feeling Single-Seeing writer Almost Slim and hang this Double" and "A Good Year for one on your wall! and Guitars at The Roses" have been given Doc and Merle Watson's new quarter with lesser known gems Sugar Hill release Down South all Werlein stores like the malevolent title waltz and (SH-3742) continues their tradition possibly the world's only musically of mountain folk tunes rearranged Hurry, while photographic study in pathos, by father and son. No drums or "Developing My Pictures., A string sections on this one, Bud, they're still knockout collection. lots of plaintive vocalizing by the In stocld Regular listeners of The Prairie Doctor and enough superb guitar/ Home Companion radio show will banjo/fiddle/bass interacting to want to scoop up on Riders In The satisfy the most demanding purist. Sky's new Live album (Rounder "Siidin' Delta," "Coal Miner's 0186). The Riders are a cracker Blues," and "Hesitation Blues" jack acoustic trio that sings some give side one a definite sardonic of the wackiest Western ditties in blue edge and it closes with Doc by three-part harmony, and enact his lonesome on "What A Friend some of the funniest cowboy skits We Have In Jesus." A sweet ever performed in the annals of album that points more to the recorded country music. Dr. mountains of Appalachia than to Woody Paul (a.k.a. "El Caballero the bright lights of Nashville and of the Lost Mind") is the main sports a nifty handcolored Jim instrumentalist on Bob Wills-type McGuire cover photo. swing fiddle. Ranger Doug ("The Idol Of American Youth") and PRICED Too Slim (who "rides drag in the o you really get off on that FROM roundup") fill out on rhythm fake-twang California style guitar and upright bass. Together Dphrasing of ex-Eagle Glenn they construct a relaxed, yet Frey? Love those textbook har precise reenactment of the old monies and cliched guitar licks of Twenties and Thirties style of Poco? Can you find real entertaining radio broadcasts that "meaning" in those insipid lyrics dominated the airwaves in pre by such schlockmeisters as Toto video days. "The Yodel Blues" and LeRoux? Then by all means e605 Canal •Lakeside •Oakwood features dead-on harmony yodel run out and buy the latest 524-7511 831-2621 362-3131 ing (easier said than done), "When Atchafalaya album, Defined. This ePiaza in Lake Forest- 246-6830 The Bloom Is On The Sage" shares Louisiana band defines themselves billing with "Cowboy Song" as as a "Cajun Country-Rock Band" epitomal cowboy music. "After according to the back cover. The 10 Wavelength/November 1984 - - - ., II II ., II ,, " ,, .• I/ II ,, •• •, ~ II \I }RESC.HEDI \\ ... - ~ II II II :; -::- 9 II I;// ~ II ~ ~ // 1\# ULED"f// ~. I; II ~ ~ ~ ""' I; = -::- ~ ~ II .. If '' II ~ '' '' "" .. II . II ,, . _., II . II ,, II II II • II II .-;. ~ •· II ;,. . II . ~ . ~ - .. II // 1\ II " " " 0: ~ h II ,;.·.,;, "" "" ,, ~ ~ II\\ " ;...... "'' 4-1! ~~ ~4 ~···~~---~I ~ Even if you've spun this stuff until you're blue, you can do like famous music writer Almost Slim and hang this one on your walll problem is that they aren't really this band (and this record) a notch any of the three, they just sort of or two above other bands in this homogenously skim over the genre is the quality and variety of surface of the genre and it all Mr. Black's original songs. "Ode comes out sounding real safe, To Billy Dye" is a horn loaded perfectly executed, with not a hair instrumental swimming in subtle out of place. Leon Medica has cer vibrato, "Like Wow!" is tainly achieved a "perfect" Nebraska boogie cha-cha rock production with this one, but I about going out in a car, and wouldn't touch it with Pere-Pere's "Mixed Up Dazed Confused" is ten-foot pirogue pole. I have rela sporty arpeggios "walking on tives who love this kind of stuff, quicksand." P.B. and the E.'s are though. available from Real Gone Records, Bad Records 2724 Sumner, Lincoln NE, 68502. Speaking of bad records, a lot of In the Last But Not Least By bad records pass through the Any Means Department we have Wavelength office and after Rockabilly Psychosis and The listening to enough of them you Garage Disease (WIK 18) a begin to get used to hearing certain compilation on the British label tendencies and trends in them. Big Beat, which is a subsidiary of And some of them aren't really British Ace. Swaggering, bad records at all; they just have demented, brutal, illogical Music one or two bad things about them. To Have A Nervous Breakdown One such trend is what I call the By, this LP combines a handful of "Vocalist Who Can't Sing Fifties and Sixties American garage Syndrome.'' De vii's Daughter rockers with a handful of British (King Pin 001) by Fast Floyd and and American latest-wave shocka The Famous Firebirds and Oogum billy, with a handful of. .. er, Boogum (Real Gone RGLP005) by "things." The "things" include Pinky Black and The Excessives "Paralysed" by The Legendary are two 12-inchers that succumb to Stardust Cowboy, who may have this particular malady. been dipping a little too often into The Famous Firebirds must be a the legendary stardust when he cut great bar band; gunshot backbeat, this one, and an unforgivable Bad funky bass, narcotic saxophone, Limey cover of "Folsom Prison etc., but that Floyd boy! Ugh! Blues" by The Geezers. Old Somebody tell this guy that the Yankee stuff includes the Trash melody is usually the part that the men's original "Surfin' Bird," vocalist is supposed to sing, unless Young Yankee stuff includes an you're Lydia Lunch ... and Floyd is excellent Gun Club cut, "Jack On much cuter than Lydia Lunch. Fire," and Panther Burn's Floyd and the boys choose a pretty "Dateless Night." My own good repertoire for this effort with permanently warped sensibilities two New Orleans classics: Huey are especially fond of The Sonics' Smith's " High Blood Pressure" "Psycho," The Meteor's "Radio and Joe Jones' hit "You Talk Too active Kid ," and an especially Much," two Dale Hawkins' hyperactive version of "Red numbers, and a damn good version Headed Woman" by Jim of "My Baby Like Ta." Aspiring Dickinson with The Cramps. vocalists can order this one and a Legend has it that they were locked nice gold vinyl zoological 45 of into Sam Phillips' studio all night "Tiger Man" b/w "Frog Legs by a time-lock device on the studio Man" from King Pin Records, door and this c ut is what emerged 1626 Wilcox, Suite 698, the next morning. If all that isn't Hollywood, CA 90028. enough to make you go out and Pinky Black displays only a tad spend ten dollars on an import more vocal prowess than Mr. Fast, record of important "bad" music, but he too is at the helm of a house take note/ it's pressed on pink rocking bar combo. What pulls vinyl! 0 November 1984/Wevelength 11 FLIP CITY CAROL GNIADY W hy the West Bank? Pete Riverboat explained that he's a native of Musical Harvey, has lived there all of his PRESIDENT life, likes Harvey and saw the need Migration for an establishment to serve that CONCERTS community. However, mutually n the neverending quest for live agreed, the GNO Mississippi River music, few stones remain un Bridge will not deter East Bankers I turned by music lovers and also from enjoying the new bands in New Orleans. The trend facility. setters have developed patterns Working in the organization are and tell-tale traces leading to the the talents of Sherman Bernard newest finds. The city's new consulting sound and lighting musical spots noted this month operations and the veteran Edgar indicate a certain amount of booking agent Ed White, handling migration, and we've followed the the promotion - but in this faithful to some new and instance not the booking - for the Winter promising locations. club. But The Arches is not Ole Privateers Lounge, located on Man River's; it's a brand, spank Franklin Avenue in the Gen ing new building. Barely a year Nov. 1 tilly / Lakefront area regularly old, the facility is very large, has draws the obvious crowd from the been renovated extensively 'frtd is UNO campus, but also lures acoustically compatible with a patrons who've been frequenting sloping cathedral ceiling. the Uptown music clubs. Right The Arches will draw upon around the corner it's not. The many national recording acts that music is composed of bands are suitable to its size, and will who!ve cut a niche in the Uptown afford local musicians opening Bonnie market and have ventured to band status. Already tapped for Privateers because it's been recep the first month is celebrated New tive to many different bands, and Orleanian Fats Domino for Raitt provides another financially bene November 17. The Sheiks may ficial outlet. Privateers used to be enjoy regular gigging status on The Loop. After a brief recess Wednesday nights, but at the time Nov. 4 period to renovate, it reopened of this writing their position and under new management and the confirmation of the proposal was new name in September. The local still tentative. Seeming to take the bands who were quick to jump on ball and run with it after The Beat The the wagon have gained more Palace dropped the pigskin, The exposure by playing to a new, Arches will fill the need of the lack more diverse crowd. New Orleans of a facility of its size and nature. Ramones bands carry with them fans from Other assets include a big, well-lit their particular neighborhoods. parking lot and plenty of open Thus, the parking lot in front of mindedness. The Arches will enter Nov. 7 the establishment generates an tain weekly on Wednesdays, exchange of different cultures; Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Uptowners, people from Metairie Last is a rejuvenation of an old John Cafferty & the and the Lakefront can be seen favorite that started the punk taking a breather and talking while movement rolling in New Orleans Beaver Brown Band - Nov. 10 leaning against the unlucky, - Andy Capp's. Andy Capp's has •BMPI conveniently parked cars. Certain been spruced up, semi-redecorated cross-cultured influence is bound and renamed The Pen Club, after to take place. For example, at the the first letter of the last names of Patrick Moraz & Bill Bruford end of an evening at Privateers, the three operators: Gary Perron, (Keyboard Player for Moody Blues (Drummer for King Crimson & traffic seemed to flow Uptown, Donald Ellis and Jimy Negrotto. & formerly of YES) formerly of Genesis & YES) instigated by "I'll see you at The The Pen Club idea came in an Escape." At that point, the effort to upgrade and attract more Acoustic Music for Piano curious and the familiar can be customers. It's a precarious situa & Drums - Nov. 13 seen leaving via caravan to make tion. Not much has been changed their way across the interstate. in the club's physical structure; however it has been cleaned top to bottom and new neon lighting has been installed at great expense. Producers ore exciting news is the Contrary to rumors that it had November 9 opening of a been turned into a dinner theatre, M new establishment on the The Pen Club still features some Nov. 21 West Bank called The Arches. The avant garde music, and still caters Arches music club is located at to a new wave crowd, however 7437 Lapalco in Harvey, and can toned down a bit. No live music, be spotted by its namesake red but a few more mainstream tunes brick architectural detail across the have been added to the musical KASHIF front of the building. It used to be repetoire, spurred by New Orleans' a bingo hall, but Harvey quintessential d .j., Wayne Landry, Nov. 23 businessman and owner Pete a long-standing fixture at Andy KAPPA AlPHA Vicari had the foresight and desire Capp' s, as many veterans stub PSI PRESENTS to convert the building to a 1,000 bornly still call the club. The peak-capacity concert hall. Upstairs is unchanged, save the For Further Information Phone Vicari's been in the nightclub erasure of chalked messages on the NEW ORLEANS STEAMBOAT COMPANY business for well over ten years, walls and ceiling. The Pen Club is providing the West Bank/ Harvey still a good place to dance; you just 524-SAll.. (concert line) 586-8777 (office) 587-0740 (wharf) area with clubs in the past like The may not recognize the new faces Big Apple and Gatsby's Disco. that it's attracting. 0 12 WavelengthiNovember 1984 RARE RECORD ALMOST SLIM Primo Prima J,J~J •) r Louis Prima . . . featuring Keely Smith with Sam Butera The Wildest! ~J!J!! Capitol EP-2-755 This is somewhat of a changeup IN CONCERT for this column but an enjoyable recess from the usual R&B and Smith trading barbs. I'm sure WITH VERY offerings. Louis was one of those that Prima's inspiration for the SPECIAL GUEST STARS "Eye-talian" boys from New song was one, or many, Orleans who had a lot of soul. trumpeters he encountered on On this four-song EP Prima Bourbon Street, when he was HONEYMOON really is at his wildest. He's pos coming up. This is one part of a itively in the Wynonie Harris three-part album and I sure wish I SUITE mood on "Jump, Jive and Wail," had the other two EPs that with another local boy Sam Butera comprised this "album." I'm sure blowing some knocked out sax. if I looked hard enough I could NOVEMBER Even the neopolitan "Buona probably find them on some three Sera" takes an unexpected shift in plays-for-a-quarter jukebox that 8th-7:30PM gear thanks to Butera's playing. still resides in Mid-City or the Irish "The Lip" offers a great male Channel. female vocal jousting with Prima -Almost Slim UNO REVIEWS LAKEFRONT ARENA The Dozen RESERVED SEAT TICKETS NOW ON SALE AT THE ARENA BOX OFFICE AND All Strut TICKETMASTER LOCATIONS. Their Stuff ANOTHER BEAVER PROOUCTlON. Dirty Dozen Brass Band My Feet Can't Fail Me Now Concord Jazz-The George Wein Collection-5005 What a superb release! It's so great to hear these guys doing so much more with the traditional strains of New Orleans jazz than recreating stuff from the turn-of In which the Dozen the-century, or watering it down so take tasty bites that it's palatable only for of the musical pie. tourists. Here we honestly have a group of young musicians who are carving out their own brand of Tree" and "St. James Infirmary," jazz. Of course it borrows from the but it fits so well that only die-hard styles of yesteryear, but on this jazz fans might find things object album they flaunt what a unique ionable. But the Dozen don't just prospect they really are. leave their mark on New Orleans, If you've not heard the Dozen in they also give an enjoyable kick action, or even if you're a regular in the pants to Ellington's Monday night second liner at The "Caravan," a natural tour-de Glasshouse, you won't be able to force, and even Charlie Parker's fault this release. Things kick off "Bongo Beep," and Thelonius on the A side with one of the Monk's "Blue Monk." I can think group's signatures "Blackbird of no other album that can take as Special," which is a great one song many bites of the musical pie as the sampler of the Dozen's style. Kirk Dozen do and not look bloated Joseph's tuba walks like an electric and awkward. funk bass, while the horn section Of course the Dozen's ace, builds to an early crescendo and "Feet," puts the cap on the album, then blows away everything in but at that point it wouldn't have sight. Each of the horns takes a surprised me if they'd have snuck brief solo before slipping back into in the "Star Spangled Banner" the rhythm section and constructs because I'd have dug that too. another series of extended Don't miss out on this, it truly crescendos (I think James Brown deserves a listen. Let's hope this would have called it "taking it to release adds more fuel to the city's the bridge"). jazz revival and that we don't have As suggested, funk comes into to wait so long for the next Dirty play, even on the traditional Dozen outing. numbers like "I Ate Up the Apple -Almost Slim bluesman Son Seals, some Blues In entertaining country blues by San Francisco-based harmonica blower Gayland J .C. Burris and the driving jump blues of Rod Piazza and the The 12th Annual Mighty Flyers from Los Angeles, San Francisco Blues Festival the festival focus returned to Louisiana and Texas with a September 7-8, 1984 stunning performance by Marcia The San Francisco Blues Festival Ball, who was making her second is the oldest annual blues event in Bay Area appearance. Sitting at an the United States. Louisiana electric piano with her right leg artists, including Clifton Chenier, crossed over the left, the tall, lean Irma Thomas, Queen Ida and Texan was in fine form as she Boogie Jake, have performed at played rollicking rhumba boogie the festival over the years but never piano and sang some blues, some in as heavy a concentration as was Crescent City R&B (including a presented on the second afternoon melancholy, heartfelt Irma of the 12th annual edition, thanks Thomas-styled original titled to Bon Ton West, a new Santa "How Long Does It Hurt?" ), and Cruz-based talent agency that two hard rocking Etta James specializes in performers from classics-"Touch Lover" and Louisiana and Texas. The Dirty "Tell Mama." Dozen Brass Band, Mason Ruffner Zydeco singer-accordionist and the Blues Rockers, Katie part of the federal government's few Charlie Parker bop lines into Buckwheat and his smoking lis Webster, Clarence Garlow, Golden Gate National the festive, syncopated number. Sont Partis Band were the clear hit Buckwheat and the Golden Eagles Recreational Area, the Dirty After this too-brief performance, of the day. Modeled· on Clifton comprised the first Bon Ton West Dozen kicked off the proceedings they exited and waited out the Chenier and His Red Hot tour, which began August 30 in by marching onto the field from afternQon to return seven hours Louisiana Band, though lacking Austin and ended September 17 in the parking lot. Blasting out Duke later to close the day with a longer, many of that group's subtleties, Santa Barbara. Joining them at the Ellington's "Caravan," they were yet still too-brief set. Buckwheat and crew were sloppy blues festival was Texas songbird followed by a small second line, Up next were Mason Ruffner and out of tune but made up for it Marcia Ball, who was not part of complete with parasols and Mardi and the Blues Rockers. The trio with the driving intensity of their the Bon Ton package but fit in Gras masks. After making their offered a set of crude, gutsy Texas music. Closing out his long, nicely nonetheless. way to the stage,. the octet played juke joint blues and boogie exciting set of blues and zydeco, As many of the 4,000 fans who the sprightly "My Feet Can't Fail shuffles. Using heavy reverb on his the shaggy-haired squeeze-boxer attended the Sunday show settled Me Now," the title cut of their guitar, the white-suited leader sang a medley of Z.Z. Hill's on the spacious, grassy lawn of Ft. debut album on the George Wein picked in a raw manner "Steppin' Out and Steppin' In" Mason's Great Meadow, which is Collection label, interpolating a reminiscent of Guitar Slim and and "Down Home Blues" and had sang in a gruff, scratchy voice that the crowd on its feet screaming, brought to mind George "We're gonna party." Thorogood, though he possessed The party mood continued, even none of Thorogood's abilities as as a chilly breeze blew in from the an entertainer. nearby Golden Gate, as the six A Great Name in The Blues Rockers came to life Golden Eagles hit the stage in full when joined by Katie Webster, the feathered Mardi Gras Indian New Orleans Seafood Lake Charles-based pianist w.ho plumage. Their hypnotic African has been living in Oakland part of rooted chants, led by the powerful the time for the past eight years but voice of Monk Boudreaux, is now ... Maple had never performed in the Bay included such second-line favorites Area before. Pumping strong as "Hey Pocky Way" and "Hold on ... Street. boogie piano, she generated the 'Em Joe." first real excitement of the after The Dirty Dozen returned, with noon as she sang Louis Jordan's the Eagles continuing to frolic in "Let the Good Times Roll" in her front of them, to close out the big vibrato-laced alto voice and show. After performing two invited the crowd to sing along on selections, which featured the dirty the chorus. After a romping muted trumpet of leader Gregory boogie woogie instrumental drawn Davis and the screaming tenor from the Pinetop Smith-Pete saxophone of Kevin Harris, the Johnson-Albert Ammons Dozen marched off the stage HOME OF THE tradition, she rose from behind the playing "Saints," the Eagles and ONE LB. MAINE keyboard and made her way to much of the audience following 795 center stage to bring the house behind. It was a fitting ending to a LOBSTER down with a soulful reading of great day of music, yet it was Gene Chandler's "Rainbow," unfortunate that the festival chose during which she performed a to utilize the Dozen as a novelty EVERYDAY 11-4 Mon.-Sat. 'til 2pm rather risque dance routine. act, rather than allowing them to Bloody Mary's Clarence Garlow was up next, fully showcase their magnificent FRESH, backed by Webster and Ruffner's and innovative fusion of RAW Martini's band. The legendary 73-year-old traditional jazz and bop. Old Fashioneds Lake Charles-born singer-guitar The previous day's line-up ist presented a mixed bag of spicy featured Little Milton, James OYSTERS or Wine Cajun-flavored tunes (including Cotton, Valerie Wellington and his classic "Bon Ton Roulet"), Eddy Clearwater (all from down home Texas blues and Chicago), the Nighthawks from UPTOWN OPEN DAILY METAIRIE Southwest Louisiana rock'n'roll, D.C., Robert Lowery from Santa 7605 Maple 2708 N. H ullen but his loose rhythms didn't mesh Cruz, Sonny Rhodes from Free Off-Street Parking Next to the Landmark well with the supporting musicians Oakland, Bob Hall and Dave and he failed to ignite the audience Peabody from England and Toru AL FARRELL AT THE KEYBOARD-lhurs., Fri., Sat. nttes as Webster had. Oki from Japan. After a fierce set by Chicago -Lee Hildebrand ·. : ~ . .- ~ I •' •; .-, .. . ·,.;"•·.' ~ .. : ' .:.;~ .. ,.- :~ ~ :· .. ·' ... . .·;· .· ~ ' .~ ... :- .... AWOPBOPALOOBOPAWOPBAMBOOMI IThe Big Bang from which everything since has emanated.' Little Richard-. Make A Joyful I BY RICK COLEMAN Charles White The Life and Times ofLittle Richard The Quasar of Rock Harmony Books. $15.95. picture shows the Beatles in 1962-mere "mediocre at best"). Little Richard's incredible berserk vinyl punks-huddled around Little Richard to The interviews would be enough in telegrams were the A-bombs that everyone was Abathe in his aura and touch his hands. themselves, but there is also a dream listing of waiting for in the Fifties-"A WOPBOPALOO Even without his crowning pompadour, King every Little Richard session and record BOPA WOPBAMBOOM!"-the Big Bang Richard's huge head dominates the scene. With compiled by Bob Hyde: And those photos! from which everything since has emanated. the slit eyes and grin of a Cheshire cat he The book has two major flaws-White's Everyone thought that he, like the movie for receives his rightful homage. almost total neglect of the influence of New which "Long Tall Sally" was originally named, Little Richard has always said he was the Orleans musicians on Richard's music and was The Thing (From Another World). The greatest-rather loudly. After reading this book career and White's bumbling narrative, which huge Fifties novelty hits "Flying Saucer" and you won't doubt it. strings together the interviews. "Purple People Eater" both have aliens arriving Charles "Dr. Rock" White has practiced White has curiously few dates for the events from outer space exclaiming "A WOPBOP his British restraint on Richard's evangelistic in Richard's life other than those researched by ALOOBOP-!" rhetoric and supplemented it with countless Hyde. I often found myself wondering what "Tutti Frutti" was somewhat more than a interviews with the people who knew him best to year he was talking about. He also gives little revelation. The hardest hitting songs on the tell an endlessly fascinating story. We learn background on those interviewed. The latter radio until that time (late 1955) were almost Richard's original name-"Ricardo" (Little part of the book is a virtual log of concerts and tame in comparison: Bill Haley's "Shake, Rattle Ricardo? Little Ricky??); his childhood orgies, though the sex is undoubtedly sensation and Roll," Fats Domino's "Ain't That a nicknames-"Bro," "War Hawk" (for his alized I. to sell books and 2. to make Shame," and Chuck Berry's "Maybelline." singing), and "Princess Lavonne" (!); how Richard's salvation seem an even greater Little Richard singlehandedly invented hard Peacock Record' owner Don Robey beat up miracle. rock 'n' roll. everybody except the late "Big Mama" White's insights on Little Richard are less At Richard's first New Orleans sessions Thornton of "Hound Dog" fame ("He was than scintillating. Would you trust your rock 'n' (September 13 & 14, 1955) he sang nothing but scared of her"); how a girl named Enortis roll to a man who calls Tom Jones "a rock gospel-blues ballads with an unusually high walked from Appaloosa, Mississippi, to New legend"? White collects dozens of "tribute" pitched voice. On "Chicken Little Baby" Orleans in her Sunday School dress to give Little quotes after a composite Little Richard sermon Richard grabbed the piano away from the Richard "Long Tall Sally"; how Sputnik led in a section ironically called "Testimonials." session player (Melvin Dowden or Huey Smith) Little Richard to quit at the absolute apex of The quotes range from cosmic ("Little Richard and injected some gospel shouting. But it was rock 'n' roll in 1957; how Richard forgave the is my favorite singer"-Muhammad Ali)-to the obscene novelty Richard claims producer man who shot his father dead; how Richard stupefying ("There would have been no Deep Bumps Blackwell heard him singing during a stole Jerry Lee Lewis' glory in headlining a show Purple if there had been no Little Richard" break at the Dew Drop Inn and had Richllrd over Richard by literally stealing his audience; Jon Lord). Most of White's analysis is of the sing and play during the last 15 minutes of 1e how near the end of Richard's rocking Larry "gee whiz" variety, as when he attributes Little session that provided the breakthrough: Williams gave him "the most fearful moment" Richard's yo-yoing between rock 'n' roll and the "I'd been singing 'Tutti Frutti' for years, but of his life when he pointed a gun at Richard and church as "the battle between the good and evil it never struck me as a song you'd record. I threatened to kill him over a cocaine deal; even that exists in all of us." But, to be fair, the didn't go to New Orleans to record no 'Tutti Richard's opinion of MTV (racist and interviews are the soul of this book. Frutti.' Sure, it used to crack the crowds up when I sang it in the clubs, with those risque the sheer intensity and humor of his music. The You shall be free lyrics: 'Tutti Frutti, good booty/If it don't fit, results of such relaxing of self-consciousness is a and he'd beat the thing, you know. I'd follow don't force it/You can grease it, make it communal feeling that is rock 'n' roll at its best him around, goin' 'Bam-a-lam-bam/You shall easy ... " Little Richard best expressed this feeling in an be free.' Then the vegetable man would come The significance of the change was that interview with David Dalton for Rolling Stone by. He would draw the people out and he would "Tutti Frutti," with its lyrics tamed by New in 1970 describing a childhood memory of a sing [sings in a high gospel voice): Orleans writer Dorothy LaBostrie, was now a man who sold vegetables: Blackeyed peas nonsensical novelty on which Rkhard could let "There used to be a man comin' around And a barrel ofbeans aU of his inhibitions go because he wasn't taking singin', beatin a washboard: Grocer man com in' with a cart ofg reens, it or himself seriously. He had always been an Bam~a-lam-bam Honey. exhibitionist and now he became the focal point You shall be free and people would all come to the door, and the for everyone to let their inhibitions out through In the mornin' man would be ridin' down the street with a horse, a wagon, and singin' and everybody would come to the door, and he'd keep singin' . . . It was really somethin'. Everybody be singin'. We would be washin' in the back yard, just singin' and we sound like a big choir, and we oever practiced: it was a big choir like fifty voices all over the neighborhood, and that's AWOPBOPALOOBOP what I came from ... " Another important part of Richard's child hood which he talked to Dalton about is strangely not mentioned in White's book at all. AWOPBAMBOOM! After being kicked out of his house by his father at age 13 for his bizarre lifestyle, Richard was taken in by Ann Johnson (of "Miss Ann" fame) I and her husband Johnny, a well-to-do white had heard that Richard,s stage act was rea~/~ couple who owned the Tick Tock club in Macon, Georgia, where Richard began to •ild but in the studio that day he was ve']; m perform: .b .t' d So here we go over to the Dew rop "So they adopted me and bought me a brand ' 1 new car, and I went to school, and she was just e . . . , like my mother for many years ... I think they n and, of course, Richard's like any other ·had a lot to do with me loving people today; I 'l,;, We walk into the place and, you kno;,;h,e know there is love in every race. That is very rls. are there and the ,boys .are ther; ~~:t's ~~ unreal in Georgia, it was real, though, because PI an audience. There s a pw~o, an h Lee they didn't get nothing out of it, period, and .-utch He's on stage reckonmg to s ow . · . . s ow' He gets to gomg. they didn't have to do it, and they did. They 1 really put me · · together in a big way, and I can't jle~ ~;s t;;:;~f~~~; d~d7didididididididididi. forget it, it's a beautiful thing··... :d ;tarts I think they to sing "A wop-~op-a-Loo-Mop:? had a lot to do with me being Little Richard." ood-Goddam - Tutti Fruttz, good booty... I Some . "Wow' That's what of the most insightful comments on I want from you, Richard in The ~~dh d Th~t's a hit'" I knew the lyrics were Quasar of Rock come from Bill House, his lead guitar player in the Seventies, ~~ ~;wd and sugg~tive tho r~cosrdo. /gt o7~~~~ who was awestruck by Richard's performing ot played on t e azr. tever h ave g . h h d come over to see energy: "Jf Dorothy Labostne, w o a . "He seemed extraordinarily together. Extra ~ow the recording of her song was 1 gomg. ordinarily moral. He really is a moral human rough/ her to the Dew Drop. d being, the most Christ-like character I ever met P So I said to her, "Look. You come a~ 1 by a long way. He just is what He is and nothing wrii~ sdme lyri~ to thhis,d'cos I :~=;~/b~! ~~:~; f, more. I've known him about ten years and he Richard's got. He a som · was always an incredibly kind human being, and there Well Richard was embarrassed to sm~ the and she that's pretty unusual for a person that s~ng was not certain that he wante .t important." hear it Time was running out, and I knew l So what was the result of Richard's maniacal hit. I TUTTI FR UTTI ~~uld be~ talked, using every a;gume';J ~ rocking? Saxophone player H.B. Barnum, who could think of. I asked him if he dhaf.a gfLuy g I Womp-Bomp-a-Loo-Momp Alop-Bomp-Bomp performed . t king money ... An zna ' with Richard in the Fifties: "Richard opened the door. Richard He brought the ~~~~7~ce:ft~em. turned to foe~ the wa~ Tutti Frutti, A w-Rootie (5 times) races together. and sang the song two or three tzmes an When I first went on the road Awop-Bop-a-Loo-Mop Alop-Bomp-Bomp there were many segregated audiences. With Dorothy listened. d 1 back to the Richard, although they still had the audiences Break time was over an we w~n 1 Got A Girl, Named Sue segregated in the building, they were there studio to finish the session, le<:vmg Db~~othythtoe She Knows Just What To Do together. And most times, before the end of the ~;rteen1 mmutes e;ore write the word s. · · J' · d puts 1 Got A Girl, Named Sue night, they would all be mixed together ... His session was to end, the chick comes m an. h d She Knows Just What To Do records weren't boy-meets-girl-girl-meets She -boy these little trite lyrics tn f.~~nt of .;Fe;,~~~:~ Rock To The East, She Rock To The West things, they werefun records, all fun. And says he ain't got they no vozce 1e;t. 1 saz ' ' But She's The Girl That I Love Best had a lot to say sociologically in our country and you've got to sing it." . the world. The shot was fired here and heard There had been no chance to wnte an ar~ange- Tutti Fruttz, A w-Rootie (5 times) 1 had to take the chance on Rzchard 'round the world." ment, so . ,r T'h ·td piano Awop-Bop-a-Loo-Mop Atop-Bam-Bam As Little Richard might say, the best way Ia 0 1 was to ing the piano hzmsel.J. wz get oil and vinegar together is to shake ~ss~ntial to the success of the song. It 'em up. wa~ I've Got A Gal, Named Daisy Although in his baptized state Richard talks impossible for the other piano play.ers t~ /e:;~~~ She Almost Drives Me Crazt about the homosexuality and drugs connected I've Got A Gal, Named Dazsy with rock and calls modern rock "voodoo" and ~~~~ s;r:~;:;~~e~~~~i~~~~a~:~c:::e~ti~~~z She Almost Drives Me Crazy d d h iano and we started to recor . . "demonic," he always talks about his old rock She Knows How To Love Me, Y~s In .e~ 'n' roll in one way: ~h~e: tak~s. and in fifteen minutes we had zt. Boy You Don't Know What Shes Dom To Me "Rock music may be just a bunch of noise to "Tutti-Frutti." _Bumps Blackwell some people, but to me it was the music of love. Tutti Frutti, A w-Rootie (5 times) My music brought togetherness, happiness. My from The Life and Times ofLittle Rich~rd A wop-Bop-a-Loo-Mop A lop-Bam-Boom by Charles Whtte. music broke barriers that had seemed un breakable. It drove tunnels through walls that no one had been able to get through. My music did that." 0 BY ALMOST SLIM Dorothy Labostrie The Woman Behind The Music uite often the forgotten spoke in the music industry's wheel is the songwriter. While a recording . artist is constantly in the spotlight, a songwriter often stays in the shadows, telephone directory and there hasn't been a new with little notoriety. But while a recording artist song credited to D. Labostrie in nearly two has to keep hustling gigs, keep a band together and decades. Well, who is D. Labostrie? From Johnny make ends meet, a songwriter-a good one any Adams we learn: "That's Dorothy. She lived in way-just has to sit home, write music, and wait the same building I did. She's the one who started for the postman to deliver the royalty checks. me singing R&B." Studio engineer Cosimo Ma That's oversimplifying things, but a talented song tassa adds, "She was always around the studio try writer will always be in demand, as long as there ing to get people to do her songs. Whenever so are people making music. meone came from out of town to do a session she A name that quite often appears on writing was there with an armful of songs." Irma Thomas credits on classic New Orleans R&B songs is D. offers, "Dorothy was a real character, really full Labostrie. Maybe not too many people notice, but of life. She wrote some beautiful songs that really D. Labostrie appears as writer or co-writer on such hit home, but I haven't seen or heard from her tunes as Little Richard's "Tutti-Fruitti," Johnny in at least fifteen years." Adams' "I Won't Cry," Irma Thomas' "Don't No one else around town knew of her where Mess With My Man," and Li'l Millet's "Rich abouts either. Unlike other New Orleans R&B Woman." legends, she didn't hang out in a coffee shop, live For the most part, D. Labostrie has been a in the projects, or drive a cab for a living. After mystery. There are no records by a D. Labostrie, calling every Labostrie in the phone book, the only there's no D. Labostrie in the New Orleans clue I had to her whereabouts was from a woman who was married to a Labostrie. She said Dorothy greeted by a spirited dark-skinned woman with would like to see the city. Well, I said, 'sure.' I Labostrie was her husband's niece, but had been Indian features, who was more than eager to tell told him my name and he looked surprised and in a serious car wreck and she thought she had her story. Not only was Ms. Labostrie waiting, but said, 'Do you know Amos Labostrie?' Well, when moved to Kansas City many years ago. so too was a woman introduced to me as her per I told him that was my father, I came to fmd out It seemed that D. Labostrie had disappeared in sonal secretary. So much for the poor-downtrod he was my stepbrother, Mark. From there I found the same fashion as a sheet of newspaper does, den songwriter theory! my father's sister and his cousins. I got to feel right twisting and blowing down a dark and windy Dorothy Labostrie was born May 18, 1928, in at home in New Orleans." street. But suddenly, long after I'd abandoned my the small mining town of Rayland, Kentucky. Her Labostrie took a series of jobs around town, in personal search, Dorothy Labostrie miraculously father, Amos Labostrie, came from a New Orleans cluding working as a domestic and as a bartender. reappeared. She was back in New Orleans and creole family, but moved north to find work not But she had higher ambitions for herself, although wanted to be interviewed by the city's community long after his second marriage. After a mining ac at the time, she didn't know exactly where to direct FM station, WWOZ. cident, the Labostries moved to Mobile, Alabama, them. "I went out to a lot of clubs to hear music," With the help of WWOZ's production manager while Dorothy was still a child. she continues. "The Dew Drop, the Tiajuana, the Jerry Brock, I was able to arrange an interview, Dorothy left Mobile in 1941 and headed for Robin Hood, the Blue Eagle-all up and down which if I'd had my way would have been as soon New Orleans for the first time to look for her Rampart Street. All your national celebrities as I could load my cassette with tape and get across father's relatives. "The first day I came to New stopped here like Amos Milburn, Bullmoose Jack town. After a quick chat with the woman over the Orleans I was out enjoying myself," she began. son and Louis Jordan. But of course, there was phone, it was arranged that we'd meet the next "I was sitting in a bar on Melpomene Street when a lot of great local musicians, too, like Paul day. this fellow came up and started to talk to me. I Gayten, Larry Darnell and Roy Brown. I got to I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I was told him my circumstances and he asked me if I know just about everyone who was someone in New Orleans. "Ever since I was in school I used to love to write poems and sing. I knew that I wanted to do something musically but I wasn't sure just what it was. I sang in church of course, but never with a band. Some people would think that's odd because I've been told that I have a beautiful voice.'' Labostrie's break came when Specialty Records, from Hollywood, California, brought Little Richard to Cosimo's Studio for his first session As soon as she heard Johnny Adams' voice, she knew her ~, Won't Cry' was for him. with that label. "I'll never forget the date," says Labostrie. "It was September 3, 1955. I was listen ing to the radio and an announcement came on that immediately caught my attention. It said that Bumps Blackwell [Specialty's producer] was look ing for songwriters. Well, as soon as I heard where he was gonna be, I decided I was gonna be a song writer. I was working as a cook for a lady and I told her that I had to quit because I was going to write a record. Well, she probably thought I was crazy, but that's exactly what I did. "I practically broke Cosimo's door down the next day. Little Richard was sitting at the piano and it was the first time I'd ever laid eyes on him. I just asked to hear his voice and I sat down and put 'Tutti Fruitti' down on paper in 15 minutes.'' Although Little Richard has continually stated MAIL ORDER INFORMATION: Please send $8 for he in fact wrote the infamous rock 'n' roll classic, each record or cassette plus $1 shipping/handling and has been bilked out of songwriter's royalties to: NmsHADE RECORDS · 9271f2 N. HAGAN all these years, Labostrie just laughs at his claim. "Little Richard didn't write none of 'Tutti Fruit NEW ORJ.!ANS. LOUISIANA 70119 ti,' " she says. "I'll tell you exactly how I came to write that. I used to live on Galvez Street and my girlfriend and I liked to go down to the drug store and buy ice cream. One day we went in and saw this new flavor, Tutti Fruitti. Right away I ALBUM RELEASE PARTY! thought, 'Boy, that's a great idea for a song.' So I kept it in the back of my mind until I got to the JOHN RANKIN WITH ALL STAR BAND studio that day. I also wrote the flip side of 'Tutti AT THE MAPLE LEAF Fruitti,' 'I'm Just a Lonely Guy,' and a spiritual, 'Blessed Mother,' aU in the same day.'' D Tuesday, November 13 - 10 p.m. D Chart placements and Billboard and Cashbox reviews aside, "Tutti Fruitti" hit the record in- dustry like an atomic bomb. Little Richard was songs just sitting on the bank fishing. I might hear Orleans sojourn. In fact she still writes " rock 'n' suddenly the hottest thing in show business and somebody say something in a conversation that roll" songs and reveals she's penned a song called took off on a torrid, but short lived, rock 'n' roll strikes me as interesting or I'll just see something "Outer Space Woman," that's just waiting to be career. Being the writer of such an influential song, that catches my eye. I don't play an instrument a hit. one would have expected Specialty to beat Labos so I just try to sing the lyrics for my songs. I always She seems to be living quite comfortably on her trie's door down to get new material. But except keep a pad and pencil with me so I don't miss any writing royalties, which come in every few months. for contributing the rousing "Rich Woman" for thing. I like to go out and listen to music, all types From the song "Tutti Fruitti" Labostrie claims she Li'l Millet, such was not the case. of music, and I get inspiration from that." receives on the average of $5,000 every three to "I wouldn't sell off the rights to my songs," The last record that D. Labostrie's name ap six months, although $30,000 was the size "of the points out Labostrie, explaining the situation. peared on was "Mickey Mo~ Boarding House," last big one." "Art Rupe was the owner of Specialty and he Walter Washington's first single recorded for Al "A lot of people thought I was dead," she wanted to control everything. They wanted more Scramuzza's Scram label in 1970. But a serious car laughs, "but as you can see, I'm not. I'm really songs, but they wanted to pay me a flat $500 for accident and the death of her mother temporarily interested in writing spirituals now and that's what them. I knew better because the first check from put her out of commission, and she eventually consumes most of my energy. I want to be a great BMI for 'Tutti Fruitti' was more than that. moved to New York where she lives today. evangelist and record gospel music. That's where "After that, the big companies like Chess, Although she is a devout member of the Church I'm at now." 0 Atlantic and Imperial didn't want to deal with me. Of God In Christ, she doesn't disdain secular WWOZ-FM, 90. 7, will air a show on Dorothy They knew I wouldn't sell out, so they didn't want music and even went club-hopping to see Johnny Labostrie, along with Louisiana writer Roy to bother with me. But I just piled up material un Adams and Tommy Ridgely during her New Hayes, on December 1, at 5:30p.m. til I had another chance." Her next opportunity, on a smaller scale, carne in the form of Joe Ruffino, who was looking for material for his local labels, Ric and Ron. "Ruf fino had a number of great local artists," explains Labostrie. "I wrote songs for Tommy Ridgely, Chris Kenner, Johnny Adams and Irma Thomas. I'm proud to think that most of these great peo ple are still performing today. "The first time I had success with Ruffino was 'I Won't Cry' for Johnny Adams. At the time I was going out with a guy that l really liked, but he wanted to break up. I remember like it was just yesterday, we were sitting under a tree and I said, 'I know you're going to leave me, but I won't cry and I won't shed a tear.' Those words stuck in my mind and I used them in the song. "I was living in an apartment at the time at 3418 South Robertson. I was waiting to get in the bath room and I was in a hurry because I had to go to work. There was this guy from down the hall in there singing 'Precious Lord' and he was really something. It was Johnny Adams. He was work ing as a roofer at the time and singing in spiritual groups at nights. I asked him if he wanted to sing rock 'n' roll, but he said he couldn't because all his friends would get mad at him. "Eventually I got him to sing a couple of lines from 'I Won't Cry,' and I knew it was just for him. I finally got him to come and talk to Ruf fino and we talked him into doing the song. It came out great." Labostrie was also responsible for supplying Irma Thomas' first hit, the bawdy "Don't Mess With My Man" in 1959. "That was kind-of a bold song,'' she explains, "especially for 1959. I was looking for a young girl with a lot of spirit to sing it and when Irma carne along she was just perfect. Irma was just 16 or 11 at the time, but believe me she had a voice." Labostrie explained that the Ric and Ron ses sions generally employed Edgar Blanchard's Gon doliers, with Lee Allen and Eddie Bo helping out on occasion. "Edgar was real talented and a guy that I don't think got enough credit. He was a great guitar player and real professional around the studio. He always was coming up with little ideas that were useful." GERMAN BEER GARDEN Eventually the relationship between Labostrie ------WE'LL BE THERE and Ruffino soured. Labostrie says that she was being cheated by Ruffmo over writing royalties AFTER THE FAIR! and claims that to this day she hasn't been paid a cent for "I Won't Cry" and "Don't Mess With ------My Man." CONTINUOUS LIVE Labostrie continued to write material in the Six ENTERTAINMENT ties, eventually signing an agreement to write material for Cosimo Matassa's White Cliffs Pub ------lishing Company. 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" Richard's just a spiritual person. Even when was my tenor sax player-he, too, is the greatest When I first met Richard I used to go around he was out here performing he was a and they both have influenced so many to the Tiajuana when they came in with the goodhearted person. In spite of what I've heard musicians." Tempo Toppers. They also brought a band with him say, he was just a true person to the art and That is how Little Richard describes his them-most acts around there used to come he was sincere. He's one of my favorites. association with New Orleans in The Life and play with the house band. After leaving New Orleans in 1953 Little Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock. I think that's where he met Wilbert [Smith, Richard again met up with Wilbert Smith (Lee The session listing at the back shows just how a.k.a. Lee Diamond, later the bandleader for Diamond) from the Tiajuana in Nashville where great Richard's debt to New Orleans is. "Tutti Richard's road group, the Upsetters), 'cause Smith and drummer Chuck Connors (the only Frutti," "Slippin' and Slidin'," "Long Tall Wilbert was the saxophone player there with New Orleans musician interviewed by White!) Sally," "Rip It Up," "Ready Teddy," "Jenny Robert Parker and Billy Tate on guitar, Charlie were backing up Shirley & Lee in 1954. Smith Jenny," "Good Golly Miss Molly," "The Girl Williams on drums, and Eddie Bo on piano. and Connors formed the nucleus of Richard's Can't Help It," "Send Me Some Lovin'," They used to give talent shows around there and new band, the Upsetters. etc.-all rock 'n' roll standards-were recorded we used to go, quite naturally,-me, Chris in New Orleans with New Orleans musicians. Kenner, and K-Doe. Lloyd Price All have the "New Orleans sound," established He had this guy, Joe Bell, he played accordion A major star since the number one R&B hit of by Dave Bartholomew-basically riffing and guitar- fantastic guy. He had an organ 1952 and New Orleans classic, "Lawdy Miss saxophones, a rock-hard backbeat, and a player and a piano player, a guy from Nashville Clawdy," Lloyd wheeled his black-and-gold wailing tenor solo- along with Memphis' "Sun named Bernard. And he had another guy on Cadillac into Little Richard's hometown in early Records' sound," the most powerful regional organ called "Baby Face," everybody called 1955. creation in Fifties rock 'n' roll. As Earl King him "Face." He was a real articulate piano I was in Macon, Georgia, performing at a says, "When they say 'Little Richard' they got player. little theatre on Ninth Street and I didn't know to think about Earl Palmer, Frank Fields, Lee The Tiajuana was the only black club in town who this was. Back during that time when you Allen, and Red Tyler. That's got to come to that would run every night. The Dew Drop was seen guys with all the hair Little Richard had on mind." more or less a weekend club. So when the his head, well! And being from New Orleans Unfortunately, the book's author Charles Tempo Toppers played there, man, they would that sort of scared me, you know. Here's a six White seems determined to ignore New Orleans' pack the house. Every night in the week you foot dude with-"Hi!"-one of those little light contribution to Little Richard's success. He could not get in there. voices. So he told me he was a singer and he didn't interview any of the musicians who Richard did all these beautiful ballads that played piano. I asked him to come up and play played on Richard's classics, and it's not as if was in his repetoire. He did all the kind of things some and he did. I called Art Rupe out in they're inaccessible-almost all are still that Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn- he did California-Specialty Records. Of course he performing and Earl Palmer is the secretary all this high powered stuff. So when I heard him had all his own natural stuff-"Good Golly treasurer of the Los Angeles musicians' union! on the road with "Tutti Frutti," I didn't even Miss Molly," "Tutti Frutti," and all that stuff. In order to partially aright White's injustice recognize the vocal. He was a shouter in the And my brother Leo and I wrote "Send Me to New Orleans music, here are New Orleans early days, but it was just in a different context. Some Lovin' " and that was the song that got musicians talking about Little Richard and his Ironically enough, Richard didn't play piano Little Richard off. New Orleans connection. then. And I was shocked when I saw Richard On February 17, 1955, Specialty Records in playing piano. Richard would maintain his act Los Angeles received a crude audition tape from Robert Parker more on a vocal level in performing. He used to Little Richard. Specialty owner Art Rupe dance with the group and Richard was a explained the reason for recording Richard in Famed for his 1966 smash "Barefootin'," wildman. New Orleans: "Richard had told me he liked Robert Parker was bandleader and tenor Richard believed in all the performers wearing Fats Domino's sound [Richard recorded a half saxophone player at the Club Tiajuana in late makeup. That was his own creation with the dozen Domino songs in his career], and I 1952 when Little Richard first arrived in New Tempo Toppers and typical show business thought maybe lightning would strike twice if Orleans. thing. we recorded Richard at J&M Studios in New I can remember the day when Little Richard Richard and them used to work real hard, Orleans, like we did Lloyd Price." came through town with his convertible old man. I mean, real hard. I used to wonder how Buick and pulling a wagon behind it. Oscar sometimes they could keep up their pace every Alvin "Red,, Tyler Bolden owned the Tiajuana. He told me, night, 'cause it was a little more vicious then Saxophone player Red Tyler played on Fats "Robert, they got a new group in town." I'd with entertainers because they had a lot of Domino's " The Fat Man" in 1949 seen the wagon outside- "Tempo Toppers" and in on entertainers and they used to work so hard to try countless sessions since, including every one of it. They was asleep upstairs in the hotel. And I to maintain-outdo the other performers. And, Little Richard's New Orleans dates. He is very used to be around there and eat my lunch. He man, it was just rough. You had to be jus active today with his own modern jazz group. said, "We got a group upstairs t - Little Richard fantastic. And that's what Richard was. They brought in a guy named Little Richard & the Tempo Toppers. You ever heard of He brought a whole show when he came. and [Bumps Blackwell said], "I want you guys them?" I said, "No, but they gotta be good, That's what made James [Brown], I think, get to record with him." When he brought Little they got a group; I see the name on the van and the idea for using the Flames, 'cause when Richard in at that time Richard wore his everything." He said, "Well, hair up in they gonna play Richard had the Tempo Toppers the air and a lot of mascara with you tonight." he created that and stuff and we kind of stage imagery. Today when we look at thought he was, you know, quite funny. And we So my boss hired him as an artist-the whole the Boy Georges and the people come out with smiled and laughed, but then we got to know group, man. I think he had a lady playing the certain kind of gimmick or style thing to Richard and respect him as a fine performer. timbales or something. And Billy Brooks was attract public attention, you know, that's the Actually in truth we didn't know what to with him-singin' too. And, man, they had one way they were thinkin', along those lines. expect and, vice versa, he didn't know what to of the best shows you ever wanna see. I mean it We used to talk in depth expect from us. was great. sometimes long into I think once we got into the the hours about performing and the music groove with "Tutti Frutti" it was almost like a during that time he knew me. Richard did a happy marriage between song, the artist, and Earl King couple of songs, they wasn't my songs, but they the group. One of New Orleans greatest bluesmen and was kinda reminiscent of some of the things I With the frenzy and everything in that walking archive of New Orleans R&B, Earl got did, like the "Lonely, Lonely Nights" thing. He arrangement, I distinctly remember him saying, Continued on page 28. November 1984/Wevele th 23 W CAN YO MISS IF WE DON'T GO AWAY? Lookout for Jed's Lookout. The Fair may be over but the party at Jed's Lookout is just getting started. Seven Nights a week. 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S.t.3 me, I don't want to meet 'em. Information 15: Charge. Fri.16-Sun.18: Windsor. Arlo Guthrie; Dawld Bromberg, Ellen DeOenerea performing comedy at from Mrs. Hope McLelland, P.O.B. 457, Tues.20: Ivory White. Wed.21 -Sun.25: Pen Saenger Performing Arts Center. Le Petit Theatre (why not Le Petit Salon?), Basile 70515, 318-432-6454. ny Lane. Tues.27: Faze Band. Wed.28: Nov.18 8 p .m., with Barbara Menendez and Ray Touch. Thurs.29: Force of Habit. Upstage: Ganucheau preceding her and Vance Nov.3·4 Fri.2..Sun.4: The Klik. Fri.9-Sun.11 : Cross Grower Waahlngton, Jr., Saenger Per DeGeneres as M.C. Information at Vermilion Pariah Pair and Peatlwal, town Traffic. Fri.16-Sun.18, and Wed.21 and forming Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. 522-2081; first Quentin Crisp and now this! Kaplan Fairgrounds, Mill Street; information Fri.23·Sun.25: Rare Blend. from Freddie LeMaire, Jr., P.O.B. 55, Nov.18·Dec.4 ...u G ..te, 7011 Read Blvd., 242-9710. Sat.10 Kaplan 70548, 318-643-6640. Fridays and Saturdays, 10-3: Spice of Life. Johnnr Deamond, Blue Room, Fairmont Workahop In Sound Recording Blue Room, in the Fairmont Hotel, Hotel, 9 and 11 nightly. Technique• for Pllm and VIdeo Pro Nov.4 529-7111 . Through Tues.6: Jose Feliciano. duction, at NOVAC, 2010 Magazine; infor Peatlwal de Grend Cot-u, Information Wed.7 through Sat.17: Doug Kershaw. Nov.21 mation at 524-8626. from Karen W. Bernard, Route 3, Box 332, From Tues.19: Johnny Desmond. Reserva The Producera, Steamer President. Arnaudville 70512, 318-231 -6491 . tions, dining, new decor... Sun.11 Nov.23 Bronco'•• 1409 Romain, Gretna, Computer Editing Workahop, at OUT OF 368-1000. Mondays and Wednesdays Joenne Brackeen, Contemporary Arts Teleproductions, the c ity's most sophisti Saturdays, Mississippi South. Center. cated and newest post-production facility, TOWN CaJun Cou~ , 327 Bourbon, 523-8630. 4140 Canal Street; information from Thursday through Sunday, the Gela Kaye Nov.24 NOVAC at the above number. CONCERTS Band at 8. Mondays through Wednesdays: Flore Purim, Patrice Plaher; Contem Horn laland: A Dealgnated Wilder· Mike Casico. porary Arts Center. nee• Area, a lecture and slide show at the 5th Annuel Blue• Mualc Award• Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow. Live Playhouse at Longue Vue Gardens, which Show, Orpheum Theatre, Memphis, music Saturdays. Sun.18 at 7:30, co-hosted by B.B. King and Nov.27 is not yet designated a wilderness area. In The Caweln the WI~, Fulton at Julia, The Klnka, UNO Lakefront Arena; led by formation at 488-5488. Charlie Rich. Information from the Friends World's Fair, 569-5071 . Thurs. 1-Sat.3: Good the Noel Coward of rock 'n' roll, Ray of the Blues Support Program, P.O.B. Wave. Thurs.4-Sat.6: recording artist John Davies, also the father of Chrissie Hynde's Tues.13·Frl.1 8 161272, Memphis TN 38186-1272; 901-332· Rankin. Fri.8-Sun.10: Cruisers. After t he child, which is no less an achievement, one Not Bloodr Ukelr, Tulane Blood Center 6459. close of the LWE, call the club for informa supposes. "hosts" (an unfortunate verb choice in the tion. Plano recital br Loula ..rnhard, circumstances) its second University VIDEO Chinatown, 1717 Canal St., 525-7937. Rogers Memorial Chapel, Tulane campus, Center Blood Drive. In the Pedersen Lounge C.A.C. Wed.14: Japanese animation by Nightly (?): Voi nhung chuong trinh dac sac 12 noon. of the U.C. Information at 865-5708. Kihachiro Kawamoto who will be present. do cac nghe si thoi danh tu San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Houston... ve tnnh Bourre. Fri.2: Rockin' Dopsie and the Cajun Fri.16: Lady Rae. Sat.17: John Fred and the darling old Jane Marken, Gaston Modot, dien. Voi cac loai thuc pham kho dac sac. Twisters. Sat.3: The Radiators~"! trust, Playboys. Sun.18: Tim. Shaw. Mon.1 9: The Pierre Renoir; the great sets are by Alex ·eo ban va cho muon bang nhac, video tape, young man, that neither idleness nor licen· Sheiks. Tues.20: Tim. Shaw. Wed.21 : andre Trauner, Leon Barsacq and Raymond cassette. tious pleasure-the chief baits with which Deacon John and the Ivories. Thurs.22: Tim GabuttL Mon.19: Some Uke It Hot. the Bilty Columna Hotel, 3811 St. Charles, the great Fisher of souls conceals his Shaw. Fri.23: The Newsboys. Sat.24: Hoo Wilder farce about gangsters, two musi 899-9308. Wednesdays: Andrew Hall's hooks, are the causes of your declining the Roo Guru (Australian new wave). Sun. .25 : cians in drag, Addison Mizner's Florida land Society Jazz Band from 8 (hom charts by career to which I would incite you," as one Tim Shaw and Lady BJ. Mon.26: The boom, and an aiL-girl orchestta, is virtually Nell Nolan). . of Sir Walter Scott's characters put it. Fri.9: Sheiks. Tues. .27 : Tim Shaw. Wed.28: The a perfect thing of Its kind;. wrth Jack Lem Doroth~·· Medallion, 3232 Orleans. U'l Queenie and the Skin Twins. Sat10: Neville Brothers. Thurs.29: Tim Shaw. mon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, George Snake-dancing, examples of adiposa dolo. BeausoleiL Fri.16: Exuma. Sat.17: Alison Fri.30: Ivy. Raft as Spats Columbo, Joe E. Brcwn, Joan rosa in motion for Botero-eyed girl wat and the Dsitractions. Sat.24: The File Cajun ...... Harbor, 626 Frenchmen, 949-0696. Shawlee as SWeet Sue, Pat O'Brien, chers, and Fridays and Saturdays, Johnny Band. Fri.30: Anson Funclerburgh and the Frf.2: Donald Harrison. Sat.3: Jasmine. George E. Stone as Toothpick Charlie. Adams and Walter Washington with the Rockets. Mon.S: Walter Washington, subject of a Fri.28: Idiot's Dellg/lt, 1939 Metro-i2:ation.of House Band. New ~le Club, 1100 Decatur St., story by Count Stenbock, and Johnny the Robert E. Sherwood alregory of The Dream Pal.ce, 534 Frenchmen. Fri.2: 525-8199. Mon. Teddy Riley and the Jazz Adams, not the subject of the remark made World On The Brink Of War, originally done The Radiators. Sat.3: Black Flag, Saccha Masters. Tues: PlacideAdarns. Original Dix to Li2abeth Scott io some old picture, "Why, by the Lunt~ Sherwood did the screenplay rine Trust and Tom Trickoli's Dog. Sat.10: ieland Hall Jazz Band. Wed.: Chris BUfke you cheap little cl~joint canary!" Fri.9: Les but the result despite the startling appari Uncle Stan and Auntie Vera. Fri.16: The and his New Orlear:JS Music from. 8-12; the Soeurs Pfister, subjects of scrapbooks by tion of Norma Shearer ir:1 an Egyptian-lined Radiators. Sat. 24: The Radiators. James Rivers Movement from 12 'til. Thurs.: David McCain and gowns by Vera West. blonde wig is like champagne diluted with 1801 Club,1801 Stumpf Blvd., 367-9670. The Camellia Jazz Band from 8-12; Luther Sat.10: The Ellis Marsalis Ensemble. soda With crark Gat>te, darling, jowty old Wednesdays through Saturdays: Janet Kent and Trick Bag '84, from 12 'tit Fridays: Mon.12: Earl King and the Blues Prophets, Charles Coburn, Edward Arnoldl Laura Lynn and Ya Ya. Placide Adams until midnight, followed by not without honor we hope, like some others Hope Crews fluttering al11over the place, P.-. 1100 s. Ctearview Pkwy., 734-0590. Luther Kent. Saturday: The Camellia Jazz gifted with second sight we could but won't Burgess Meredith. Joseph Scnildkraut, Live music Mondays, but you can do the BanQ ootil mic:tlight, followed by Luther Kent name. Thurs.15: Paula and the Pontiacs, Skeets Gallagher and the always,-agonized cotton-eyed-joe almost any time here. and Trick Bag '84.. SUndays: Luther Kent courtesy of Trader Joe Paretti.. Fri.16: Fritz Feld, directed by Clarence Brown. Palnnont Court, in the Fairmont Hotel, and Trick Bag '84 at 3:30; the James Rivers Wayne Bennett's Golden Contrasts. Sat.17: Films are shown in Bobet Hall, on the third 529-7111. Tuesdays to Saturdays, Judy Movement from the witching hour. Johnny Adams and Germaine Bazzle. floor; admission by season subscription Duggan occupies the piano bench from 9 lllemo'.. 2001 Lake Shore Dr., Mandeville, Mon.19: John Mooney. Fri.23: The Sounds ($15) or $1 .50 at the door. to 1. Sundays and Mondays: Pat Mitchell 626-8273. Heavy Metal Oust li.ke that of Brazil with a lew cangaceiro congas. ()rpM..... Nov. .14, 7:3()( The Joy Tlraf at the same hours, and again during the building across from MOMA on West 53rd Sat.24: Five Steps To Heaven. Mon. .26 : Kills. an hour-long film. about an invalid week from 5 to 7. in N.Y.); call for info. Snooks Eaglio. Thurs.29: J.D. and the Jam· woman whose husband's accidental death Fat Cab, 505 Gretna Blvd., Gretna, Nell-. 6200 Etysian Ftelds, 288-3440. mers. 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New Wave S25 hr. S ISO day wdcomed!!! S23-81A8. 34S St. Joseph - Studio Musidans Available The Exposed Flea Market. Open Monday Thursday 10-3. Friday-Saturday 10-6. 488-3976 Offer expires November 22. TUESDAYS: LADIES NIGHT 8:00-12:00 PM Two Free WEDNESDAY: DRAFT BEER NIGHT 25• A GLASS $2.00 PITCHERS TIIURSDAY: 50" OLD STYLE LONGNECKS Hundreds of dollars 9 PM- 12 AM FRIDAYS: FREE OYSTERS & 25" DRAFT BEER for good collections: SPM-8PM SANDWICH SHOP =~Beam, ALL NEW PATIO NOW OPEN RBCDRD 4801 MAGAZINE 899-9228 YOU EACH FOR RECEIVE $3 cas h LP'S & UPTO_ TAPES (CASSETTES) Friday, November 23 - Saturday, December 1 I 11 am-7pm 482-6431 282-3322 POPEYE'S FRIED CHICKEN COUPONS!!! 3129 Gentilly Blvd. 3627 S. Carrollton Ave. We,_,. the right to rwfuse any record or tape. No 78's please! ' LAST PAGE '' Hoy, Hoy, I'm the boy!" from Cleveland . . . Willie Dixon once Multiple Places has been wrote, and had he been working in the studio lately. Their writing around Christmas time he " first wax effort" is a pair of may have followed that line with orange vampire teeth, er, an EP, as something like " Joy, Joy, when I yet untitled with instantly play with my toys!" instead of the memorable tunes such as " After by-now-legendary ode to The Fall" and " Keep In Time." pulchritude, "Three Hundred The latter single will be leased to Pounds Of Joy." area drummers on a pro rata basis. As Christmas draws near it's not Two of the hottest bands on the surprising to find 300 pounds of local scene are The Models and mail falling out of the box. From Johnny J. and The Hitmen. Turns the far corners of the globe, out both bands have a lot in Poland, Australia, Vacherie, come common with new members (a the cards, letters, cherished press Hit man drummer, a Model key releases and glossy 8 by tO's. Often boardist) and recent successful this mass correspondence serves to Allen Toussaint at the Fairmont Hotel. trips to New York City. Also, the spring some new, hot goodie upon Models have promised to never a hungry, but unsuspecting public. drums, and Ben Waugh on guitar diamond rings, and oversized again tear down the Hitmen's Wby just the other day we tore and compositions. These nature pendants. His two sleds, er, cars Metairie handbills if the Hitmen open yet another 8 Yl by 11 manilla loving progeny reportedly display are shown parked outside the will set aside one dozen of their and discovered the "Satchmo" a "highly unified group sound'' for Fairmont Hotel in this rare upcoming "Hair Pie" doll from the Effanbee Doll having been together only two photograph by noted British promotional panties for dis Corporation of Somewhere, USA! months. Another up and coming celebrity photographer Irving creationary Model usage. Of course, all we got in the mail young act who cites Black Flag and Watt-Second. (3) Nothing The Waitresses "know what was the glossy 8 by 10 of "Okula Liberace as its two major in Personal (former members of No boys like" and by this time you Lakole, • • as Louis was known fluences is Indoor Offspring. Offense, Ma'am) has "tapped" should too. Little boys like little throughout Africa, so, by law, As Billy Preston once (isn't that what they do to maple cheap toys and big boys like big we're not allowed to give out the prophesized: "Nothing from trees up north this time of year?) a expensive toys like the X800 Effanbee Doll Company's address nothing leaves nothing" and you new lead vocalist, Brian "Rail" bass guitar from Westone. or phone number or any other gotta have something if you wanna Berthuieme, who does an The Rail looks like a Steinberger leads as to where you can get your get on the last page, which reminds admirable job of imitating Billy with handlebars. Instead of having hands on this little beauty. We us of three "things," (1) Raw Idol and Bryan Ferry." Imagine separate front and back pickups, can't even put it on the turntable Magazine, (2) Allen Toussaint, the tricky costume changes that the Rail has one pickup that slides and give it a fair listen until the real and (3) a local band. (1) The new must require .. . back and forth on the handlebars. tiling, the "1 5 Yl inch tall superbly Raw No. 6 is on your local stand Remember the old mustard Why make something simple and detailed likeness" of Satchmovic, and opens with a Mark "I Never plasters that grandmaw used to logical when you can make some as Louis was known throughout Took A Drawing Class In My mail order for her chest cold this thing complex and ridiculous? An Yugoslavia, arrives at Wavelength, Life" Beyer horror tale of urban time of year? Remember how added benefit is that there's more Box 15667, NOLA, 70175 in time alienation entitled "Nothing." grandad would stuff half a jar of parts to break and the instrument for the Christmas rush. You Also highly recommended: Charles Vick's salve down his wheezing doubles as a chin-up bar for wouldn't expect us to review a Burns' staggeringly stylish ' ' A pipe every New Year's? You musicians on the road who want to record on the basis of what's Marriage Made in Hell," his best don't? Well that's no reason to keep those biceps pumped. No written in a press release, and, work yet. Sidney's on Decatur St. forget that The Cold and the colds longer will an insecure macho consequently, we are regretfully can usually get you a copy. (2) will be around this winter boys and heavy metal bassist have to merely unable to review a doll on such Allen Toussaint has a couple of girls, so line up for your flu shots. feign an attitude of formidable bases. But when the real doll gets real groovy toys that any boy The Cold, capital "C," was phallic prowess! Now he can show here, you'll be the first to know. would enjoy, a Bentley and a Rolls! "almost 990/o promised" to open those squealing teenies exactly how What do you g~t when you cross Now that's something! Allen for Culture (as in "penicillin") a real man "plays," back and XTC with The Doors? Ecstatic would make a great Santa Claus if Club until it was discovered that forth, back and forth, right in the Entrances? Happy Traps? No, you he'd hitch up a dozen reindeer to no "girls" are allowed to open for middle of his favorite song! aet Outside CbUdren, a new local each of those shiny suckers and fly Boy "Yes The Beard Is Real And Imagine the video potential! Yea! rock trio with Lenny Jorns on around New Orleans delivering No You Can't Touch My Christmas All Year! Toys For bass, Carlo "Who Dat" Nuccio on gold-sequined jump suits, Kimono" George. He must be Everybody!!! 0 Reran By Bill Plympton · ~ICENTREICNJ . .ALL 1UEIR NEW · .)OUR PRQ;AAMs ~ · 111SERY Will : . HELP 1HE RICI-I. CAlSE A Rf,.SURG-ft«t , sur·~r .AtnJr TN -THE BLUE.S 11JSIC ..·. : · lHE A:X:JR: r- INDUSTRY. . / .· · . ' NOVEMBER RELEASES FROM WARNER/ELEKTRA/A1l.ANTIC ' R · Too Tough To Die RAMONES • ~- SIRE ·· JULIAN LENNON I Feel For You VALOTTE Jesse Too l..ale For Goodbyes 80184 4-25162 GROVER WASHINGTON JR INSIDE MOVES CASSEm ' l 1017 Pleasant Street at Magazine Street arrangements. Every now and then Richard told an identical story of the song's piano. There wasn't no gimmicks to his piano they might have somebody come in with an origin to Rolling Stone in 1970. playing or nothing like that. You just had to arrangement written out, but we would go into Lee Diamond was Richard's bandmaster and follow him and he'd tell you when it was okay the studio cold and say, "Hey, this is the way my close friend. Lee Diamond said, " I have a and when it wasn't okay. With that type of the tune goes." We'd listen to it once. The tune for you Richard that's bad." And when he music you didn't have to read any music, all you rhythm section got the changes down and played it for Richard, Richard just changed it had to do was try to get through to the decided what kind of rhythm they was gonna around and put his name on it. But I had the public-be yourself, you know. That's the only play. And then horns-and there was only two tune out first and I was young so they gave me a way I looked upon him as being-himself. He horns, Lee Allen and myself. We'd have things little money on the side, which was big money to was real. that we thought were good and we discarded me. When you go up to $14-15,000, the kid shut They tell me he's a minister now. To me he and come up with something better. It was just up and be quiet! was acting like, we say, a self-made country that way-it was hit and miss, really. preacher. It looked like he would enjoy what he From the very first record he was hit after hit Frank Fields was doing more than his audience would enjoy after hit, but it's strange-we never did travel Fields has perhaps played more New Orleans it. His music looked like it just went through with him. Years later, after he had given up sessions (including Lillie Richard's) than any of him-he was just a part of it. And he done rock-rhythm & blues and had gone back to the the famed studio clique, largely because few everything he could to get that enjoyment out of church, I had gone up there [Los Angeles] with could compete with him on his instrument-the it. the AFO [Combo] and then I carne back to New upright bass. That's why he was down here-he wanted the Orleans. WeU, I had been here about a month When he went into the studio he worked. He New Orleans sound along with his. I think it was and a half when I got a call from [New Orleans was a workaholic. He just believed in getting about 7511Jo or more of his success. 0