flasby. tunes. "You Make Feel Like roducer Farrar, who is "Concerto for Classic GuUar and Jazz Dancing," with its engaging falsetto responsible for at least half of Olivia's Piano" - Claude Bolling and Alexandre refrain, is already climbing the charts. successful careet,-is in his prime on this Lagoya (RCA Red Seal) •~'When I Need You" is a tune by Albert album. About a year ago French composer­ Hammond, and it's by far the album's Nowhere do Farrar's talents glow arranger Claude Bolling delighted best cut. Sayer is all over the place with brighter than on the title track, "Dont music fans with his jazz-classical harmonies, exuding a new confidence Stop Believin'," which he wrote as well collaboration with plautist Jean-Pierre in his elastic voice. Another highlight is as arranged, produced, and played Rampa!. His latest work is much in the Sayer's rendition, of "Magdalena," a guitar on. Farrar has always had a same vein, only this time Bolling has tune penned by Dapny O'Keefe. The superb talent for writing beautifully decided to engage a classic guitar in song is unique enough that it would constructed, instantly aPDealinJ;( pop musical conversation. indeed be hard to ruin, but Sayer does a songs, like his exquisite "Hav.e You Lagoya is a skilled classical guitarist most pleasant version. "How Much Never Been Mellow" "Don't Stop who met Bolling in the music con­ Love" is the, second of two Believin'" has a hauntingly beautiful servatory where they both teach. It was collaborations between Leo Sayer and midtempo melody, with a hook in the at Lagoya's request that Bolling veteran songwriter Barry Mann (of chorus that you can't help falling in love composed this concerto. In actuality, Carole King, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil with, every time you hear it. Olivia is at Leo Sayer , it's only Bolling's piano figures which fame.) Its rollicking piano line sets the her best, her smooth and soft vocal lyric that Olivia gives an appropriately ' lend a jazz coloring from time to time. tone from the first measures. "Endless perfectly capturing the mood of the spunky interpretation to. Also excellent Lagoya maintains a classical attitude Flight," the title track, was written by lyric. She is backed by a full but is "Compassionate Man," a perky throughout as the piece explores a multi-instrumentalist Andrew Gold, unobtrusive accoustic arrangement ballad in which Olivia shows what a variety of international rhythms and who of late has been lending his talents that compliments her singing perfectly. creative, imaginative singer she can folk melodies. Though not the tour-de­ to Linda Ronstadt. The production on I think it's the best single record she's be. When she hits those high notes, it's force that the Bolling-Rampal album this cut, along 'with Gold's melody and ever made. pure delight. "The Last Time You was, this latest marriage of classical Sayer's voice are such that if you close Surprisingly, this song, which was the Loved" is the heaviest song on the form with jazz sensibilties makes for your eyes and ignoe the album cover, first single from the album, didn't do album, and she handles it very well. quite rewarding listening. you 'd swear that it's Elton John him­ too well in the Top 40. However. it made Also fine are "A Thousand Con­ "In Concert- The Best Of Jimmy Cliff" - self.. .shades of "Rocket Man." versations" and "Hey Mr. Dream­ number one on the Easy Listening maker," both co-written by Cliff Jimmy Cliff (Warner Bros.) Leo Sayer has turned out an charts, which supposedly measures the If there is one person who suc­ Days," "Run To Me," "I've Got To Get unusually pleasing album. He's makinJ;( Richard's producer and Olivia's former "Bee Gees Gold - Vol. 1'; - The Bee Gees adult, 28 to 40 audience It would be a co-producer Bruce Welch. cessfully bridges the gap between (RSO Records) A Message To You," "My World," "I Warner Brothers' promotional efforts·· shame if Olivia lost her younger reggae music as a cult phenomenon and Can't See Nobody," "I Started A Joke" that much easier. The proof is in the This is Olivia's finest album. And You can really tell the gift-giving audience now, because she's beginning there's evidence she can do even better. reggae music as fine pop music, that season is sneakin' round the bend by the and "New York Mining Disaster 1941." vinyl. person is undeniably Jimmy Cliff. His spate of "best of" albums being No disco, no funk. Just the Bee Gees the songwriting and singing abilities s,et released. Record companies plow way they used ~o be ~hen ~ople were Primative Art Forms Unveiled by Dale Diventi 30,000 years ago, during the last great and more complex. The whole bark The primitive art forms of the ice age, a people migrated from may be covered with figures or ab­ Olivia is Australian Aborigines were unveiled Southern ' Asia to the Australian con­ stract designs or geometric November 7, 1976 at the Eisenhower tinent. Their descendants are the decorations. Borders are painted to beginning to Library on the Johns Hopkins Campus. Aborigines of Australia. When the white frame the area or to subdivide it into sections. Myths are usually depicted. The paintings were from the collection colonists first arrived in 1788, there show some of Dr. Salvatore Raiti, a native were an estimated 250,000 Aborigines The figures are crude, but the Australian. In order to understand and on the continent. Their numbers soon background or abstract design shows appreciate these primitive art forms, declined, partly due to killing and minute detail with dotted areas, cross­ real talent you first must know something of the par,tly to the na tural c,iecline in birth hatching or fine bars. a rate. Today there are 50,000 natives of pure blood. Another abstract style shows single Art was an important and integral figures or small groups against a plain part of aboriginal culture. Engravings black or yellow background. ' The figures are often outlined in yellow and were made on rocks and occasionally in their bodies are filled with a con­ totally dark caves. The pigments used trasting color. The area is often for the "paints" were from clays ,and covered by small broken lines of color rocks; white from pipeclay or gypsin, rather than dots or cross-hatching. yellow from limonite oxide from ant Over the past quarter of a century, nests, black from charcoal and red from clays or rocks. large changes in aboriginal life have The Australian Aborigine paintings blurred I the distinction between are done in several different styles, all regional styles. Some European in­ of which are represented in the exhibit. fluences are seen. Occasionally a The so-called x-ray style portrays landscape is painted with hills and external features of the animal, human rocks and trees to simulate a per­ or spirit as well as the spinal cord, spective that is quite foreign to heart and lungs. It shows that there is aboriginal types of art. The influence of more to a living creature than external mission settlements is shown in the appearance. Several colors are used on appearance of Christian subjects. a plain red background. Only one or two However, in sacred paintings there is figures are included. still fierce adherence by the tribal A second style related to the above elders to the hereditary beliefs, styles depicts animated spirit, people hunting, and designs. dancing, or running. They are often A truly remarkable exibit of a painted in a single color' (white or primitive people and their customs, yellow) . Other colors are added beliefs, a.Jd their art forms, the exibit sparingly. , will continue until November 26 at the Gallery of the Milton S. Eisenhower Olivia Newton-John Several other styles are more ab­ Library on Johns Hopkins Homewood stract. Usually these are more colorful Campus. " .