MUSIC WEEK, SEPTEMBER 2, 1978 D © n 0 C c DAVID DUNDAS VARIOUS Reggae Dance Party. RCA PL 25 Short takes Vertical Hold. Air. CHR 1197. 162. If reggae/disco fusion were not Producers: Dundas, Jon Kelly, such a pretentious term for such a MISCELLANEOUS Graham PreskeK. A medium-strong lightweight, mindlessly jolly sound Original London Cast Records — cocktail of 50 percent proof as this, it would apply here. A 16- The Student Prince/IVifdflower. ingredients which goes down easily track collection of nice little World Records SH 279. Sales without touching the sides but is numbers, including reggae versions appeal must be very restricted. unlikely to knock anyone out. of Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Both recordings are 52 years old Dundas. a competem songwriter and feature names long forgotten. with a pleasant voice, is still having Blue, I Love To Love and even trouble finding a style of his own Gershwin's Summertime, which fits Maybe someone, somewhere has strong enough make people forget comfortably into the pop reggae been waiting half a century though Jeans On. Worth slocking a few just section of the market where identity to be able to obtain them again! to see how it goes, because the past matters less than predictability of single hit means the name is not sound.** VARIOUS unknown. Sun Sound Special — Raunchy BARKY DRANFIELD Rockabilly. Charly Records. CR NYCC Bowin' and Scrapin'. Topic I2TS 30147. Continuing with its major Make Every Day Count. RCA PL 386. Producer: Nic Kinscy. rockabilly promotion, Charly has 12782. Producer Warren Schatz. BOSTON Accepting that everyone comes in issued this 16-track collection First album released in UK by the Don't Look Back. Epic EPC 86057. Producer. TomScholz. Good strong some distance behind the virtuoso which features Sun masters that New York Community Choir, commercial rock, forgivably pop here and there, from a CBS promo Swarbrick in the folk fiddlers' were not issued at the time of their though previous album and singles project of the moment. First 2LP in 1976 eventually sold over six million stakes, Dransficld still rates as good recording in the Fifties. They have have filtered through on import. A worldwide, and this neatly produced and packaged offering has the rather than great. His playing is neat recently become available to Charly suggestion of gospel message with record company's large calibre guns behind it. Dealers should prepare for and careful rather than inspired, but in the UK and the company claims titles like A Song Can Reach Your possible take-of but avoid panicking. this LP is a very pleasant sub-hour's that they represent some of the best Heart and Rejoice, Rejoice and the worth of beloved traditional pieces Memphis rockabilly music. Artists massed voices enhance that effect like Fiddlers Progress, Rattling include Hayden Thompson, Don but the beat is more up tempo than, TUFF DARTS Phone Booth Man, though Roaring Willie, Bushes and Briars Hosea, Junior Thompson and Tuff Darts. Sire SPK 6048. presumably songs with titles such as Sonny Burgess. say, the Edwin Hawkins Singers. Producers: Tony Bongiovi, Lance (Your Love Is Like) Nuclear Waste and the lilting, evergreen ** Tracks like the World Is Waiting For Quinn, and Bob Clearmountain. no longer shock people. Tommy O'Carolan's Concerto. Artist is well A Change will go down well in the New York new wave band who Frenzy has a strong individual voice known and much liked on folk JEANNIE C. RILEY discos but the album will need a played a lot at CBGB's. There is but the band will need to gig here to scene, should notch up fair sales in The Best Of. Charly CR 30146. single success to help it to cross over. originality in tracks like Rats and really break. *» that specialist market. Which of course has to include Miss Riley's only major British hit, DEAD BOYS Harper Valley PTA. The 16 tracks SERGIO MENDES Laws reading his own poems about We Have Come For Your Children. here are the results of the singer's Brasil 88. Elektra K52074. FOR MOR love's pleasures and work with producer Shelby Producer Sergio Mendes. Mendcs disappointments. The poetry Sire SRK 6054. Producer: Felix Singleton, and also include Am I has journeyed through Brasil 66 doesn't bring any new insights or Pappalardi. More product through That Easy To Forget, There Never and 77 already in nomenclature for FliS angles to the relationship of man this American label's deal with Was A Time and The Girl Most his band, and is now looking a and woman, but Laws, who has an WEA. A bunch of new wave Likely. long way ahead with this album. ***both mor and disco browsers. interesting, lived-in face in his strummers who would need to gig ** The music is very much '78 sleeve photograph, has a rather here extensively to build up a however, with a strong disco HENRY MANC1N1 naive simplicity which is quite following. ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK influence well spiced by his Latin Just You And Me Together Love. endearing, and Mancini's music is «* The Swarm. Warner Brothers percussion team and the customary RCA PL 12362. Producer. Joe as distinguished and melodic as DMZ K56541. The film is one of (he excellent lady lead voices (Marietta Reisman. An interesting and one expects from him. A mor DMZ. Sire Records. SRK 6051. latest disaster movies to emerge Waters and Carol Rogers). unusual project, with Mancini stocking proposition, but unlikely Producers: Flo and Eddie. With from the US, and is currently Standout track is Milton conducting his own music between to sell heavily without airplay Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, showing around the UK. The music Nascimento's song Bridges, and and behind narration by assistance which will be difficult to former vocalists with both Zappa has been composed and arranged the LP is a good proposition for Australian TV personality John obtain. ** and The Turtles, taking the by Jerry Goldsmith. This album production credits on this album it's will probably appeal to some of not too surprising to find the music those who have actually seen The of DMZ a little difficult to Swarm but, as with most other categorize. Side one is straight original soundtrack LPs, sales must powerhouse rock with the band be very restricted. sounding like a cross between Led Zeppelin and early Stooges. Turning CHAS & DAVE the album over, however, reveals far more closely where DMZ are coming from with the accent on updated MASS PRODUCTION Sixties r&b. Although the material Three Miles High. Atlantic K 50510. Fantastic New Album Producers: Ed A Eilerbe and Artists. here cannot be faulted it remains to An undistinguished soft funk sound be seen whether WEA can break this from this ten-piece outfit who haul band on the British rock/heavy from Richmond, Virginia. One metal market, and with no live track, the silky smooth Slow Bump, appearances scheduled the prospects saves the album and could well don't look too hopeful. attract attention if released as a single. Nevertheless, with two TERRY CALLIER previous albums and no chart Fire On Ice. Elektra K52096. Pro- success to date, it seems unlikely that ducer: Richard Evans. Jazz/rock Mass Production will be making and quite a lot of soul from artist much impact with this album. who is little known in UK, but who is an experienced pro and has, among others, Eddie Harris on sax MICHAEL WHITE and Sonny Burke on piano as back- The X Factor. Elektra Kk2095. up. Nice classy stuff for fusion fans. Producer: George Duke. An unsatisfying marriage of jazz, funk, soul, rock, avant-garde material in 3S LARRY GATLIN which While's occasionally brilliant Oh! Brother. Monument MNT electric fiddle playing fights for a ,= vv T-'Xi 82984. Producers: Fred Foster and hearing over a fine but under- m fe Artist. Fourth album from this exploited rhythm section — and American singer/songwriter who under layers of treacly, cliched disco has had his songs recorded by vocals which deserve to be backing Johnny Cash and Kristofferson someone (well to the back). among others. Gatlin's reputation in Someone should have decided what his field has been steadily growing, White was going to do, and then let with his last LP including a Cashbox him do it properly. rated top country single. >i> Appearances at the last two Country NEW OVATION EOCKNEY Music Festivals in Britain can only New Ovation. Neptune NA 110. help sales of this album which shows Producer: Black Gold Production Gatlin as an artist who can write and Co Ltd. New Ovation play easy DEALER £2.60 handle material not exclusively listening m-o-r pop with a country. predilection for c/w arrangements and this album is a pleasant enough R.R.P. £4.40 AMERICAN RAM JAM example of their style. On the other Porlrail Of The Arlisl As A Younj; hand most of these songs, with the Ram. Epic EPC 82628, Produced by exception of the odd traditional Kasencu-Kaiz. American Ram Jam standard such as Old Kentucky have chan successes with Black Betty Home, are not particularly and also with the album from which memorable and one can't really to it was taken. Now a five piece, they imagine them standing up to the test 841 Harrow Road London NW10 produce powerful but discordant of time. Difficult to envisage any lusi^ Tel- 01-969 7155/5255 Orders 969 8344 sounds that seem to lack any great sales without some fairly hefty Telex. 927813 LARREC direction. promotional back-up.