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MUSIC WEEK MAY 19, 1984 tern rulings outside Top 20 end Top 50:- •• good, ••loir -poor soles predicted in oivn specialist market. Star rating under General■ heading indicates sales potential in general pop rock market, mlh • • •rating indicating onny Into lite lonicr hall ■ of chart only. High Road To China is the new film starring Tom "Magnum" Solleck and the music has been composed by that well- TOP 50 known film score veteran, John Barry. Nostalgia That's Entertainment Records has proved BRUCE FOXTON the sales potential in this area of the Touch Sensitive. Arista 206251. music market and A&R plans to release NOEL COWARD Producers: Stan Shaw/Steve Lilly- both new scores and re-issues of classic The Revues. World Records SHB 44. white. Mild-mannered rock from the film music. VARIOUS former Jam bassist. It's pleasant enough Film Themes of the 40's and 50's. SH in a conventional format, but lacks CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 384. dynamism — even on those tracks with Salute The General. HDH/Demon LOUIS ARMSTRONG production supremo Lillywhite at the Records LP 001. Distribution: Rough The Legend 1925-26. SH 404. controls. Ultimately a little disappointing, Trade and the Cartel. Recordings JOE LOSS but will chart, as his singles have, on the originally released on the Holland-Dozier- Party Dance Time, SH 1078251. strength of the Jam connection. Holland label Invictus now making their FELIX MENDELSSOHN FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI reappearance on vinyl via the HDH label Serenade to Hawaii, SH 1078261. Live In Amsterdam. EMI FELA 24 0129 deal with Demon. Includes of course their SEMPRINI 3. Producer: artist Lavish gatefold 2-LP big UK hits. Give Me Just A Little More Concert Hour. SH 1078281. from one of the big three African names Time and (You've Got Me) Dangling On A selection from the excellent Retrospect (along with King Sunny Ade and Chief i A String. Also re-issued on HDH is Freda series on World Records which EMI is Ebenezer Obey), this combines all PSYCHEDELIC FURS (above) Payne's Of Gold (LP 002). Both now marketing strongly. excitement of one of the Black Mirror Moves. CBS 25950. releases will be welcomed by fans who The Coward is a mono 2LP, and is a President's gigs without all the intermin- Producer: Koith Forsoy. remember the recordings first time cherishable collection which features the able waiting around that he often inflicts TOP 20 BOB MARLEY and the WAILERS around — and maybe the newer master himself on most tracks and the on his audience. An impressive blend of Legend. The Best Of. Island BMW 1. generation of record buyers too. titles of the other LPs all speak for them- jazz and African music with sweet HUMAN LEAGUE •• (both ) selves quite eloquently. Excellent backing vocals from four of the artist's Hysteria. Virgin V2315. JERMAINE JACKSON nostalgia stock. wives. Well-timed for the summer and Dynamite. Arista 206 317. VARIOUS after Fela's UK tour not long ago. this Phil Guy. Bad Luck Boy. JSP Records should chart. HANOI ROCKS JOE "KING" CARRASCO & 1061 (direct from 112 Sunny Gardens Ail Those Wasted Years. Johanna THE CROWNS Road, NW4). VARIOUS HANOI DLP 1 (import-available through Tales From The Crypt. ROIR A A-128. Lightnin' Hopkins. Electric Lightnin', Judy Garland At The Grove. Capitoi Jungle Records). Two-album live set Producer Joe Nick Patoskl. Summer's JSP 1067. CAPS 26 00071. that includes Mental Beat, Malibu Beach here and the time is right for dancing to Various. Downhome Blues. JSP 1068. Dinah Shore and Andre Previn. Songs Indies Nightmare, 11th Street Kids and Train the happy sounds of the Southern states Louis Jordan. Jump 'n' Jive. JSP In A Midnight Mood. Capitol CAPS 26 Kept A Rolling, plus other in concert of America. JKC will be familiar to a 1069. 00081. VARIOUS favourites. broader circle than just Tex-Mex Walter Horton. The Deep Blues Dakota Staton. The Late Late Show. Auftakt. East-West Records EWLP 1. enthusiasts after his Stiff tour of a few Harmonica. JSP 1071. Capitol CAPS 26 00101. Distribution: Pinnacle. Compilation years back. And of belter sound quality More collectable titles from the specialist This Is June Christy. Capitol CAPS 26 album to introduce ' TIM STORY than the average from this tape-only blues label, JSP, which is run by John 0051 1. new East West Trading Company label Untitled. Unitorn U 024. Distribution: outfit. Tales could do well with the onset Stedman in North London. The main More worthwhile releases from the .which specialises in non-UK product. The Pinnacle. If any of the tracks on this LP of summer and the renewed interest in point of interest is that the albums are not Capitol Records archives that will delight acts featured here are mainly German — were taken up as the theme tune to some ethnic American music. archive material but recent recordings. record collectors throughout the country. Alvi & The Alviettes, Die Zwei, Strafe Fur TV drama (and many are eminently suit- The Horton record was made in a Garland At The Grove includes Zingl Rebellion and Camp Sophisto. A good able), this LP could be a sort of Chicago club in the late Sixties and has Went The Strings Of My Heart, and You taster of things to come. Norwegian Tubular Bells. As it is, unless VARIOUS never been previously issued while the Made Me Love You Medley and, of some enterprising producer picks up on 50 Classic Pub Songs. A&R Records Lightnin' Hopkins set, also unissued course. Over The Rainbow. Garland was it, it will fade into obscurity. A one-man PUB 50. Distribution: Spartan. before, is a Sixties studio session. The one of the few artists who always came Earthed To The Ground. Flicknife production, right down to the cover illus- Following the old Stars & Garters style, name of Louis Jordan was brought to a over better live than in the studio SHARP 018. Distribution; Pinnacle. tration, Untitled is a gentle keyboards this LP features various medleys of all- new generation of fans via Joe Jackson's Dinah Sings — Previn Plays includes More a fifth-form imagery from Hawk- dominated-LP, which could potentially time family favourites (Roll Out The Jumpin' Jive LP, and this JSP album, standards like That Old Feeling, The Man wind mainman Brock. With track titles have across the board appeal. A little too Barrel, Auld Lang Syne, etc) and it recorded in 1974, features one of the late I Love and Melancholy Baby — great late- like Oscillations, Green Finned Demon drowsy at times, the inclusion of the best sounds like a good time was had by all. legend's last live dates. The compilation night music, as is the Dakota Staton LP, and Machine Dream it seems (and track, the strangely clerical Seventh album, Downhome Blues, includes originally released in 1957. This Is June sounds) like only yesterday since Silver Chance, on Uniton's forthcoming OST material by Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Christy features more Fifties recordings sampler should introduce Story to the High Road To China. A&R Records Hooker and Louisiana Red — all tracks by a singer whose catalogue has been Machine. fans are loyal FILM 001. Distribution: Spartan. A new again previously unissued. much neglected in recent years. enough to give this one reasonable sales. UK. label specialising in the OST market — •• (each album) " * * (each album) Edited by BARRY LAZELL

RADIO Product Pointing the way news BREAK MACHINE: Break SOME NEW imports worth watching out Dance Party Record Shack" for include several releases by familiar : THE BANK holiday had the sound, to the extent that the newie chart into something of a family dancefloor names. On the 12-inch front, Each And Every characteristic braking effect on chart has taken the pop chart by storm affair, with Bobby's brother Cecil the currently-charted SOS Band have a One bianco y negro movements, with a lower than usual almost before the club DJs and the sitting strongly at five with their US newie with For Your Love (Tabu); the EDDY GRANT: Romancing turnout of new entries. However, dance audience discovered it. Still, once-again-hot Love Wars package. Trammps return on a Dutch label there are still notable moves with the its entry on the singles chart at Both albums, of course, are also (Injection) with Move; Herbie Hancock The Stone Ice 34 is almost certain to herald another showing strongly on the pop album has a new Mega-Mix (by Grandmaster LOOSE ENDS: Emergency Pointer Sisters stealing the top slot DST) which bears little relation to the (Dial 999) Virgin from on the singles top 10 place next week, and possibly chart. British mix released last year (US THE O'JAYS: Extraordinary chart at the same time as their Break a second chart-topper. Love Wars has already produced a Columbia); the O'Jays offer Extraordinary Girl Philadelphia International Out album crashes the LP list at Among the other new entries, fast-rising hit single with its title Girl (Philadelphia Int); and Evelyn King POINTER SISTERS: number three. Elbow Bones also returns with his tracks, but it is still not clear yet has a remixed Shake Down (RCA). Automatic Planet The Pointers tend to hit rather follow-up — again getting less radio when (or if) a single will be extracted The biggest recent import album is intermittently in Britain (Slow Hand push (so far) than its predecessor, from The Poet II. If dancefloor Rose Royce's Music Magic (Montage), DENIECE WILLIAMS; Let's while the Detroit Spinners have the reaction alone is the gauge which which has already made an LP chart entry Hear It For Thfe Boy CBS and Fire were three and five years highest new entry at 29 with Right at number 19 this week, and is outselling TERRI WELLS: I'll Be Around ago respectively), but when they are Motown will use, then Tell Me Why the 12-inch-extracted New Love. Philly World/London hot they are hot, and this current Or Wrong/I'll Be Around. There is now the clear floor fillin' favourite. WOMACK & WOMACK: British single and album are already seems little doubt that the latter Love Wars Elektra their two all-time biggest UK sellers. track is selling this, finally getting its YARBROUGH & PEOPLES: The biggest challenge for the top just British desserts more than a Don't Waste Your Time comes from Deniece Williams, decade after its US success. UK Club Play Chart Total Experience/RCA whose Let's Hear It For The Boy Meanwhile, Terri Wells' (from Footloose) storms upwards interpretation of I'll Be Around, 1 1 JOCELYN BROWN: Somebody Else's Guy Fourth & Broadway CLIMBERS from 20 to five. Despite Deniece's which sparked the revival, edges 2 5 POINTER SISTERS: Automatic Planet BLOODSTONE: Instant Love intermittent UK chart record, it has closer to the top at number four and 3 12 CHANGE: Change Of Heart WEA LP (US Import-TNECK) also found equal favour in the overall of course has now cracked the pop 4 8 TERRI WELLS: I'll Be Around Philly World/London JIMMY CLIFF: Reggae Nights top 30 as well. 5 2 RUFUS & CHAKA KHAN; Ain't Nobody Warner Brothers CBS pop field, where it is currently Herbie Hancock's imported 6 3 CAMEO: She's Strange Club/Phonogram : Doin' It In A chasing Kenny Loggins' Footloose 7 13 BOBBY KING; Lovequake Motown towards the top. megamix (mentioned elsewhere) is 8 10 REAL TO REEL: Love Me Like This Arista Haunted House (US Import- Oddly, Shalamar's single from the firmly in at 41, and proving so 9 9 PAUL HARDCASTLE; You're The One For Me — Daybreak — Chycago International) same movie. Dancing In The popular that CBS will probably find A.M. Total Control BARBARA MASON: Don't I Sheets, was a very middling seller by it prudent to give this an early UK 10 11 HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES: Don't Give Me Up Ever Cross Your Mind Sometime this group's standards, in both the release despite the fact that there Philly World/ London (US Import-West End) dance and pop fields. Conceivably it has already been a (different) 11 7 DETROIT SPINNERS: Love Is In Season/Two Of A Kind GEORGE McCRAE: Listen To Hancock megamix commercially Atlantic LP Your Heart President was released too far ahead of the 12 (New) GEORGE HOWARD: Steppin' Out US TBA LP movie to have benefited from the available here on 12-inch just a few 13 4 KENNY G: Hi, How Ya Doin? Arista PEOPLES CHOICE: Can't Get media push as the two later-comers months back. 14 20 LOOSE ENDS: Emergency (Dial 999) Virgin Enough Of Your Love have, and it was also in competition On the album chart, Bobby 15 6 DENNIS EDWARDS: Don't Look Any Further Gordy (US Import-Mercury) with MCA's Shalamar single from Womack's The Poet II, currently 16 (New) FUNK DELUXE: This Time Dutch Rams Horn SMOKEY ROBINSON: And I the DC Cab film. The odds should winning critical praise everywhere, 17 (New) THE S.O.S. BAND; Just Be Good To Me Tabu Don't Love Ya have been for it making a much as well as its dancefloor success, 18 17 : Break Atlantic LP (US Import-Tamla) stronger impact. hits the top spot — another winner 19 (New) BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS: One Love/ PATRICE RUSHEN: Feels So The odds on Break Machine for Motown, and all the justification People Get Ready island Real (Won't Let Go) Elektra the label needed for troubling to pick 20 (New) YARBROUGH & PEOPLES: Don't Waste Your Time SISTER SLEDGE: Thinking following their Street Dance almost Total Experience/RCA as successfully with the new Break up the rights once again to an Compiled from nationwide DJ returns by Alan Jones Of You Cotillion/Atlantic Dance Party are in no question. This ostensibly specialist item from the for Music Week Research. Unless otherwise stated, all THE SYSTEM: I Wanna Make outfit has plugged straight into a small Beverly Glen label. records are 12" singles released in the UK. You Feel Good Polydor currently red-hot style of dance and The Womacks have turned the LP PAGE 31