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Talent From The Talent In Action ] Music Capitals clean bars of "You Ain't Goin' • Continued from page 16 keeping the audience's attention . truly synthetic, incorporating every This was not because of their hard phase of his stylistic progress from of the World fessionally together on both vocal rock music, which the audience and instrumental levels. Traffic on, and the audience Steve Marriott, lead singer and liked and moved with, but because squealed happily in appreciation. DOMESTIC the audience was blatantly impa­ J. F. Murphy & Salt opened the guitarist, might seem like a boyish tient to see Humble Pie. • Continued from page 16 of Peter, Paul & Mary fame starts Mick Jagger. But when he breaks evening with the i r customary into hot Pickett-like shreaks, you Black Oak Arkansas, a carnally power. Now recording for Elektra solo touring with an April 15 Car­ indulgent group of seven, outma­ Records, this band is extraordi­ Beach on March 18. . . . Jazz negie Hall concert know he knows you know he ain't pianist Eddie Heywood will per­ Lettermen to play IBM's Puerto no boy. neuvered the Academy audience's narily disciplined, drawing from impatience. Their fearless leader r 'n' b, Gaelic folk music, and form at Barney Josephson's Cook-' Rico convention, the only act per­ Humble Pie played with slick, had a running monolog string ery Restaurant in Greenwich Vil­ forming. . . . Ashton, Gardner & hard rock and sensual blues from rock. Murphy himself is source one song to another. In a low, point for that energy, but Ron lage from April 10 through June Dyke at the Whisky April 19-23. their latest A & M recording "Per­ 8. . . . Singer Harlene Winston NAT FREEDLAND formance: Rockin' the Fillmore" deep, sinister voice he would build Allard's reeds (and bagpipes) and a tension that culminated in such Joe Parrino's guitar also demand makes her cafe debut at Rodney and other albums in their past. Dangerfield's on March 27 for one Sweathog, the first group to likely numbers as "White Haired attention. Hopefully, their new Woman" and "Hot and Nasty" or allegiance will permit the exposure week. . . . Joey Dee & the Star­ MEMPHIS grace the Academy's stage on the lighters move into Danny Mazur's eve of March 17, had difficulty such unlikely ones as "Dixie" or they richly deserve. Isaac Hayes keeps busy. Just "Silent Night." The I a t t e r, of SAM SUTHERLAND Supper Club in Huntington, N.Y., back from London w her e he course, were performed in their on March 27 for a two-week gig. guested with Rex Harrison in a unscrupUlous, exhibitionist manner. ABC radio and TV sportscaster Burt Bacharach special to be aired CAROL SEILER JONI MITCHELL Howard Cosell will be the guest over ABC-TV Apr. 23, he found JACKSON BROWNE of honor at the 24th Anniversary time to complete a new single, Ball of The Bedside Network of "Let's Stay Together." And it's BYRDS Los Angeles Music Center the Veterans Hospital Radio and different. Isaac doesn't sing; he DAVE MASON Even though she was handi­ Television Guild. The ball will be plays the saxophone on this instru­ capped slightly by an approaching held in the Grand Ballroom of the mental number. It's on the Enter­ J. F. MURPHY & SALT cold that took some of the edge New York Hilton Hotel, Friday prise label. Hayes also is ready to Academy of Music, New York off her vocal volume and range, night, April 21. . . . Bobby Jones start scoring the Shaft sequel, "Big and Friends will play weekly at When the most recent config­ J oni Mitchell proved to her youth­ Bamboo." In between, the Black ful sold-out audience that at this Fiddlestix in Manhattan. Reedman Moses of Soul will join the case uration of the Byrds began tour­ J ones will provide musical direc­ ing three years ago, their act was stage of her career she is a far of "An Evening of Soul," a troupe more vibrant and outgoing per­ tion for guest jazz musicians. of b I a c k student-performers at tight and very polished. The band DAN BOTTSTEIN would walk onstage briskly, al­ former than ever. She also plays Memphis State University. Hayes ready tuned and ready to plug in her accompaniment instruments, will appear in four of the six per­ and sweeten the air with the first guitar, piano and dulcimer more 105 ANGELES formances in May. . . . Stax also clean bars of "You Ain't Goin' fluently than ever. has released albums by Rufus Nowhere." Garbed in a gray '30s pantsuit Carol King and Chase have Thomas and O.B. McClinton. Sadly, the March 10 perform­ with Joan Crawford padded shoul­ switched to ASCAP .... A&N re­ Thomas is on the Stax label, Mc­ ance suggested that the Byrds ders, she perked up her familiar corded Joe Cocker's new tour de­ Clinton on Enterprise .... Singles aren't really going anywhere. What songs by genuinely funny intros but at Madison Square Garden.... released by Stax are by Hot Sauce had been a highly-evolved and very about the odd circumstances of her San Diego's Funky Quarters, only on Volt; Johnny Taylor on Stax; personal style of music, highlighted life which inspired them. And she 18 months old, has doubled in Songs of Slum on Stax, and Albert by Clarence White's economical brought in much new material size and switched from a musical King, also on Stax. yet always lyrical guitar and Mc­ which displayed her at top form. beer bar to a musical theater with Working at the Stax studio are Guinn's classic vocals, was sur­ An added encore of "Circle Game" top artists. Merry Clayton kicked David Porter, Eddie Floyd and the vived by a grim parody of itself featuring the Geffen-Roberts male off the room's weekly live broad­ Bar-Kays. . . . American studio has that was no longer fresh or precise. choir provided additional comic casts over KDEO. released a first LP by Billy Bur­ Perhaps this act, one of Colum­ relief. Elton John had Princess Mar­ nette on Entrance, distributed by bia Records' most venerable bands, Jackson Browne, the songwriting garet boogieing at one of his three Columbia. The album, called "Billy was simply tired. Perhaps the legend from Orange County now free concerts for England's Na­ Burnette," was three months in chronic P .-A. problems blunted finally emerging as an artist, didn't tional Youth Theater.... Day­ production by Chips Moman. Bur­ their fire. Or, and this seems to be act nervous as he began his set, break Records moves to larger nette wrote eight of the songs and more likely, the performance's but somehow the more he sang, quarters at 6725 Sunset Blvd. . . . combined with Johnny Christopher LITHOGRAPHED ON HEAVY KROMEKOTE the more his voice opened up. The Chicago has sold out a week of as co-writer for the other two. . .. ennui was evidence of creative Browne songs are outstanding and BLACK & WHITE PRINTS menopause within one of the most Carnegie H all concerts two years Trans-Maximum has released sin­ he is a highly likeable if somewhat in a row. gles by Roy Head, Ronnie Stoots, 500 -- $20.75 1000 -- $31.75 distinctive and certainly influential undisciplined performer, given to bands of the last decade. The Noel Bridges VW Union Reni Crook, St. Andrews Fairway, COLOR PRINTS excessive tuning and idle rapping Sid Herring and Watch Pocket. Preceding the Byrds was special between songs. Promising is the got socko response at the Gregar 1000 - $200.00 guest Dave Mason, a consummate Club. Bridges is an unusually Ronnie Capone is producing the apt descriptive word. Warner Brothers group, Tower of musician whose three Blue Thumb NAT FREEDI,AND fluent-styled pop vocalist. . . . Send for a sample ax 10 color albums have testified to his crafts­ Daddy Cool back from Australia Power, and Steve Cropper is pro­ print and black & white aX10 manship. Mason's performance was to tour 35 college dates in five ducing Columbia's Diane Colby plus prices for other sizes in a joy, offering moments of pure, BONNIE KOLOC weeks. . . . NRBQ, new Buddah at Trans-Maximum. black & white and full details incendiary brilliance b a I a n c e d Bitter End, New York group, debuted on the West Coast Capitol's group Goose Creek on ordering. against gentle, acoustic versions of at the Whisky Wednesday (29). Symphony, which has the hit sin­ his mellower songs. His current Bonnie Koloc, a singer from Bob Alcivar to score "Butter­ gle, "Mercedes-Benz," was in Mem­ band is a triumph of supple Waterloo, Iowa, is possessed of flies Are Free" . . . . Steve Miller phis to record an album with strength, with every element mesh­ truly stunning talent. Her voice is down with hepatitis and had to Terry Manning engineering at Ar­ ifu~~~g piercingly clear, and her range is SPRINGFIELD, MO. 65803 ing nicely behind Mason's concise cancel current dates. . . . Pianist dent Studio. Freddy King also is guitars and vocals. His music is sweeping. She has firm control of Roger Kellaway sings for first time working on an LP at Ardent for dynamic shadings, and she is on his new album, "Center of the Shelter Records, produced by Leon equally at home in gentle melodic Circle." . . . Freddy Hart had an Russell and Denny Cordell. . . . material and rough-edged blues. autograph party at Bakersfield's Charlie Freeman is working on a BLACK LITE Miss Koloc also knows how to Singer Co. broadcast by KUZZ. single at Sam Phillips Studio, with interpret a song. Her affection for Dallas declared a "Bread Day" Knox Phillips producing. At the (Continued on page 41) after the group performed at a same studio, Atlantic's Jackie De­ POSTERS benefit for Southern Methodist Shannon has put vocal overdubs • University Medical Center. on previous recordings. Mike Belkin Productions has ac­ Cymmarron has a new single re­ BLACK LITE quired a 1,500-seat Cleveland night corded at American for Entrance. Says Audiences, club, to be renamed the Threshold. and Gerald Hooker is working at FIXTURES Low-admission weekend shows will American on a blues album for 77 be the policy. Already booked are records. . . . A new single ready • Lighthouse, Malo, S w eat hog, Are More Hip for release from Sounds of Mem­ FLICKER Cheech & Chong and Canned Heat. phis is by The Minites, "Still a LOS ANGELES - American The Guess Who raised $20,000 Part of Me." JAMES CORTESE concert audiences are getting much at a Winnipeg benefit to build a BULBS more musically aware, according local Indian recreation center.... INCENSE & INCENSE to Jon Mark, the vocalist-guitarist­ G ram m y nominees John Van • writer of Mark-Almond. "On our Hamersveld and Norman Seef to Puerto Rico Fest BURNERS STROBE recent tours, we've found that U.S. design cover for Michael Jarrett's audiences are able to get behind a Playboy album . Readies Pop Acts • scope of all kinds of music styles," John Denver to tape an English STROBE LIGHTS CANDLES said Mark. "Labels aren't nearly as television special. . . . Debbie NEW YORK-Mar Y Sol, the • important anymore." Reynolds will speak and sing the first International Puerto Rico Pop • Mark credits the change to FM's lead role as a friendly spider in Festival has been set for April 1-3 . CELESTIAL opening up of radio formats and the Hanna-Barbara animated film, Mar Y Sol is being produced by COLORED BLACK LITE introducing the mass audience to "Charlotte's Web." . . . Elmer Island Ventures, Inc., an Atlanta­ LIGHTS a wide variety of music. "There's Bernstein to score "In Search of based organization headed by Alex SPRAY PAINT no comparison between U.S. con­ the Lost World." Cooley. • certs and European concerts," he Bill Cowsill sat in on the new Lined up for the Festival are: Send For Free Wholesale said. "Over there the promoter just Ike & Tina Turner single, "Right Faces, featuring Rod Stewart; Ron 8-TRACK TAPES publicizes the act by putting their On." ... Van Morrison playing Wood; Ronnie Lone; Ian McLagan Price Sheet name on the hall the night of the Santa Monica Civic April 27-28. and Kenny Jones; Emerson, Lake show and collecting the ticket . . . Shanti, Atlantic's raga-rock & Palmer; Alice Cooper; Black money in the boxoffice. Also, none band featuring Assish Khan, at Sabbath; J. Geils Band, Roberta Lakeview Novelties of the halls seat more than three UCLA Friday (31). . . . The Flack; the Allman Bros. Band; to five thousand." Rhodes Kids, new Oak act, at Las Bloodrock, Dave Brubeck Quartet 7307 N. RIDGEWAY AVENUE Mark-Almond is cutting a third Vegas Hilton lounge for eight with Gerry Mulligan; Her b i e SKOKIE, ILLINOIS 60076 Blue Thumb album live at the weeks. Mann; Goose Creek Symphony; Troubadour on its current tour as Richard Harris starts a week's B.B. King; Fleetwood Mac; Dr. PHONES: (312) 679-6262 OR (312) 679-6263 well as making a live broadcast stand at the Huntington Hartford John; Malo; Osibisa; and Pot Li­ over KDAY from the club. Theater April 11. ... Mary Travers quor, among others. 18 APRIL 1, 1972, BILLBOARD