MUSIC WEEK NOVEMBER 12, 1977 (Mudii Mmm

MUSIC WEEK NOVEMBER 12, 1977

(MUDii mmm% FILM SOUNDTRACK BRIAN MAXINE You're The Cream In My Coffee of Anniversary Song, But mainly I'm Your Man. DJM 22077. and stretches to the Gay Gordons this is standard fare and though Exorcist II - The Heretic. Warner Producer: John Edraed and Brian [FilPMi and even Stop Your Tickling Jock Connie Francis is not Jewish, no-one Brothers K 56397. This follow-up to Maxinc. Rather better known for his will snap this up. Those who expect would guess listening to this set. the first Exorcist movie has been a wrestling talents, Maxinc has also SYREKTA & G. C. CAMERON a string of attractive themes like the Unlikely to appeal to oldie collectors box office disaster in the US, and Rich Love, Poor Love. Motown Rabinowitz title theme will be or new tv-gencrated fans, this one is there is no reason to believe that UK turned his attention to songwriting STML 12073. Producer: Michael disappointed. The words "as best stocked in m-o-r and specialist audiences will buck the trend. Ennio and singing, and made his debut Smith. This new Motown pairing of featured on tv" still hold some racks. Morricone's score is the usual mix of album for DJM. The LP makes Syreeta (a couple of UK hits in 1975) magic, and as the series wears on atmospheric orchestrations, with pleasant enough listening, but is the and Cameron (none) yields a there as arc bound to be some dashes of demonic choral work and record market really ready for a pleasant album, but hardly one in interested buyers. Could be DON ESTELLE AND WINDSOR Eastern mysticism. Tracks include singing wrestler — and with the the classic Marvin Gave & Tammi profitably slocked in nostalgia as DA VIES Regan's Theme, Rite Of Magic, amount of good recording talent Sing Lofty. MFP 50342. Producer: around at the moment, Maxine is Terrell/Diana Ross mould. Both well as tv music racks. Walter J. Ridley. After the runaway Magic And Ecstasy and the main singers are good on solo and *♦ success of Whispering Grass, the motif, Pazuzu. The film opens here going to find it difficult obtaining harmony work, and the backup is this month, but stock with devilish the right media exposure for this. VARIOUS Estelle and Davics team have failed ♦ rich, but the union lacks any real fire Sound For Christinas. Decca MOR to follow up with other hit singles care. on everything but Let's Make A 18. One of more than a dozen in this but their albums have fared better. BUDDY EMMONS Deal, Love To The Rescue and I'll new Decca series, this set is a little This is a reissue of an LP originally DANNY DOYLE Sings Bob Willis. Sonet SNTF 706. Try Love Again. Dealers: for the early for the season — though released only two years ago and Galaxy GAL 6014. Producer. John Producer: Michael Mclford. This is soul browsers, this, if that's where judging by some High Street stores, includes Three Coins In A Fountain, Fiddy. An Irish entertainer of one of several albums to be released your business is. October isn't early enough. As well and other old standards. growing reputation, Doyle delivers recently featuring Western Swing, a as the expected set of carols there are ♦» an unassuming album which is not mix of country 'n' jazz, so there JOHN DAVIS AND THE titles such as White Christmas by the lacking in honest appeal. Neither is must be a following of sorts out MONSTER ORCHESTRA Mantovani Orchestra, and Avc FRANKIE LAINE it lacking in variety, with Doyle there for the style. Bob Willis was Up Jumped The Devil. Polydor 2383 Maria sung by Moira Anderson. It is 20 Memories In Gold. Polydor sounding earthy and enthusiastic on the chief exponent of the music, and 455. Producen John Davis. Disco unusual to mix performers on carol Super 2383 457. Producer, Ken boisterous songs like Down Our this set by a band led by steel music at its most uninspired. It LPs, and here Kenneth McKellar Barnes. Because these recordings Street and German Clockwinder, guitarist Buddy Emmons sets out to comes out as though the component and the London Festival Brass have all been recently done by Laine, but adopting a purer ballad style of recapture the joyous music of Willis. cliches had been fed into a computer Ensemble follow on to the Coventry it is actually the first time that an considerable charm on the more And very nicely he succeeds too, — the end product is soulless, Cathedral Boys Choir and the Eric album has been issued which restrained items, particularly the nothing loo forced or adventurous, repetitive, bland and anonymous. Rogers Chorale. This makes it more features every major hit that he delightful Suzanne Don't Leave Me. just easy-swinging tunes tackled at Okay for dancefloor groovers, but of a saleable package than the made during the Forties, Fifties and not music for listening to. He could venture with some success an hurried gait, with Johnny * straight one-choice sets that are early-Sixties. His catalogue has into Gordon Lightfoot territory one Gimble's fiddling as important a always available. always been spread amongst several day, but for the moment demand contribution as Emmons slide work. LITTLE RICHARD record companies. Ken Barnes has will only come in those UK shops Little Richard Now. Creole CRLP managed to retain the essential with an Irish clientele., 510. Little Richard now has a ROD McKUEN Frankie Laine Magic, and the STOMU YAMASHTA lot less to offer than Little Richard Rod McKuen '77. DJM DJF musical arrangements fortunately Go Too. Arista Sparty 1011. then, and why anyone but the 20521. Production McKuen/ don't stray too far from the ALBERT SANDLER Producers: Dennis Mackay and devoted or the uninitiated should Alexander. Hard to believe originals. The only new song is the Albert Sandler's Serenades. World Stomu Yamashta. Yamashta's talent want these newly-recorded and that this poet/singer/songwriter has title track composed by Barnes and Records SH 255. Early Columbia seems to be in pulling together inferior versions of Good Golly Miss been recording for 20 years, as it is musical director Pete Moore — the recordings from Sandier and his disparate forces in the rock and jazz Molly, Ooh My Soul. Bama Lama only during the early-Seventies that remaining 19 numbers are all classics Palm Court Orchestra, and an fields to perform giant concept Bama Loo, Lucille, Tutti Frulti, Rip his reputation spread and his arrival like You Gave Me A Mountain, album which comes into the strict works. Here he extends the Go It Up and more is surely beyond as a record seller really happened. Jealousy, Moonlight Gambler and nostalgia-only bracket. The 16 format begun on Island 18 months comprehension. But the worst sin is His books of poems (remember We'll Be Together Again. recordings date from between 1929 ago with A1 Dimeolo, Klaus Schulze Listening To The Warm?) became »♦ and 1944, and Michael Shrievc. the way that Richard's piano playing standard Christmas gifts and has been mixed down to near- required reading for those who SPOKEN WORD inaudibility. The man is a legend and couldn't quite work him out. On this My Favourite Fairy Stories. Music deserves better than this. Dealers: set, released to coincide with this For Pleasure MFP 50349. Producer: Warwick has a tv-promotcd package year's McKuen concerts, he once Gil King. DJ Peter Murray and U.S. Top 30 of original recordings, so this release again provides a mixed bag of songs actress Judi Dench relate the stories is redundant. and poems, varying from ballads to of Sleeping Beauty, The Hare And social commentary to reworking of The Hedgehog, Dick Whittington SINGLES his love songs to revived oldies to and Jack And The Beanstalk, A timely release for Christmas. 1 (1) YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE. 1 (1) RUMOURS, Fleetwood sattire and includes excerpts from his ** Debby Boone Mac fantasy opera The Black Eagle, not 2 (3) BOOGIE NIGHTS. 2 (2) SIMPLE DREAMS, Linda LIZA MINELLI released here before. His breathy VARIOUS Heatwave Ronstadt Tropical Nights. CBS 83386. voice and throaty singing are as Impact. Music For Pleasure MFP 3 (2) NOBODY DOES IT 3 (3) AJA, Steely Dan Production: Pekkonen/March. distinctive as ever; but throughout, 50341. Easy listening orchestral BETTER, Carly Simon 4 (4) FOREIGNER, Foreigner Charts entry means little to artists of one can't help feeling he is laughing recording by such names as Joe 4 (6) IT'S ECSTASY WHEN 5 (5) LOVE YOU LIVE. Rolling Minelli's stature, who make quite amiably at himself and, Loss, David Rose, Norrie Paramor, YOU LAY DOWN, Barry Stones enough money being movie, tv or occasionally, at the listener. His Acker Bilk, Ron Goodwin and White 6 (7) CHICAGO XI, Chicago cabaret stars. This is her first studio accumulated sales are staggering — Norman Newell. The music is 5 (8) DONT IT MAKE MY 7 (9) ELVIS IN CONCERT, LP for three years and coincides his songs have appeared on 100 familiar too — The Stripper, Legend BROWN EYES BLUE. Elvis Presley with what might be termed her million records, his books have sold Of The Glass Mountain, Love Is Crystal Gayle 8 (10) SONGS FOR SOMEONE follow-up to Cabaret, New York, 16 million (and there is a new set of Blue, Stranger On The Shore and 6 (7) I FEEL LOVE, Donna YOU LOVE, Barry White New York (this is not the cast poems due this week) and his LPs Soal Coaxing are included. Summer 9 (6) ANYTIME . . . have sold more than three million. ** 7 (9) BABY WHAT A BIG ANYWHERE, Rita album, of course). Fans who liked SURPRISE, Chicago Coolidge her as a singcr/dancer/actress are For all that, he has not the pull he 8 (10) HEAVEN ON THE 7TH relieved that the new movie lives up once had, so dealers should stock TONY BEARD 10 (22) POINT OF NO RETURN, with care. Galaxy. GAL 6013. Producer Dick FLOOR, Paul Nicholas Kansas to the Minelli they all knew and Rowe. The Wag From Widecombe, 9 (11) HOW DEEP IS YOUR 11 (12) IN FULL BLOOM, Rose loved. A couple of indifferent films it says on the sleeve, recorded live at LOVE, Bee Gees Royce will not have marred her reputation VARIOUS the Royal Seven Stars Hotel Totnes. 10 113) WE'RE ALL ALONE, Rita 12 (14) TOO HOT TO HANDLE, with such staunch fans, and hers is Sounds Silky. Decca MOR 17. Decca Coolidge Heatwave an across-the-board talent that will Which just about sums up what the 11 (16) BLUE BAYOU, Linda 13 (13) I ROBOT, Alan Parsons continue to win new admirers. So has always produced excellent m-o-r album is about — rustic Devon Ronstadt Project how does this affect record sales? To big band Phase 4 stereo albums humour, jokes to match, nothing too 12 (14) JUST REMEMBER I 14 (16) LET'S GET SMALL, Steve older, cinema-going buyers, it will that have a steady market. This set is naughty and nothing too new, LOVE YOU, Firefall Martin affect them a great deal. To rock a selection of titles from the best- cither, with songs which suggest a 13 (4) THAT'S ROCK 'N' ROLL, 15 (8) SHAUN CASSIDY, buyers this set, despite it's attempt at known bands in the catalogue — West Country George Formby. Shaun Cassidy Shaun Cassidy a disco sound, comes out more as Frank Chacksfield, Ronnie Aldrich, Probably hilarious if heard live 14 (5) BRICKHOUSE, Commo- 16 (11) LIVE, Foghat big band rock, and though she can Mike Lcander and Cyril Staplcton, after a couple of pints of scrumpy, dores 17 (15) MOODY BLUE, Elvis boogie if she wants, Minelli is still a plus Johnny Keating and one or two but only mildly amusing on record. 15 (12) STAR WARS TITLE Presley ballad singer, even if that includes not-so-well-knowns, such as ♦ THEME, Meco 18 (20) BRICK. Brick Botticelli and his orchestra and the 16 (18) HELP IS ON THE WAY. 19 (23) YOU LIGHT UP MY up-tcmpo ballads with a rocky Max Harris piano band. As well as ADRISSI BROTHERS Little River Band LIGHT, Soundtrack backing. (The producer has worked producing a nice mixed platter for Adrissi Brothers. Pyc BDLP 4047. 17 (30) YOU MAKE LOVIN' FUN, 20 (24) WE MUST BELIEVE IN with Booker T. and Minnie Riperton those who like a variety of styles in Producer: Norbcrt Putnam. Side Fleetwood Mac MUSIC, Crystal Gayle — touches of these styles are their musical diets, this of course one of this album begins, so the 18 (19) DO YOU WANNA GET 21 (19) STAR WARS/SOUND- scattered throughout). The dealer also serves as a sampler to the Decca sleeve note says, with a song entitled FUNKY WITH ME, Peter TRACK will know from his market how range of instrumental after-hours Docs She Do It Like She Dances? Brown 22 (17) LIVIN' ON THE FAULT ««•many of this to stock. music. and side two ends with a reprise of 19 (21) DUSIC, Brick LINE, Doobie Brothers the same number. Unfortunately, 20 (22) WE JUST DISAGREE. 23 (27) BOSTON, Boston VARIOUS the songs that come in between are Dave Mason 24 (28) BABY IT'S ME. Diana Love For Lydia. Weekend DJF CONNIE FRANCIS usually such that only the gap before 21 (17) COLD AS ICE, Foreigner Ross 20514. Producer Skip Humphries. Jewish Favourites. Polydor 2392 and after serves to differentiate them 22 (29) IT'S SO EASY, Linda 25 (75) YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE. Love I*or Lydia, now livening up 301. The recent Number One all- from the rest. It's that same old Ronstadt Debby Boone time greats LP from Connie Francis disco rhythm, the thumping, 23 (25) SEND IN THE CLOWNS, 26 (29) GREATEST HITS VOLUME on London Weekend Tele- was bound to result in some hurried Judy Collins II, Elton John vision, is a series which teeters pinched bass going up the scale only 24 (28) DAYBREAK, Barry between fascination and total re-issues. This one is a bit of a to come down in reverse order, 27 (47) FRENCH KISS. Bob boredom, a sort of beiwecn-the-wars surprise, as Miss Francis is mostly vocals somewhere in the depths of Manilow Welch remembered for her full-voiced pop an echo chamber, and lyrics 25 (26) ISNT ITTIME, Babys 28 (32) IN CITY DREAMS, Robin Bouquet Of Barbed Wire. The ballads with a sob in the throat. Her 26 (32) COME SAIL AWAY, Styx Trower music, when it is used, livens things voice adapts perfectly to Yiddishe remarkable only for their banality. 27 (15) KEEP IT COMIN' LOVE, 29 (41) MOONFLOWER, Santana up enormously, as it is a mixture of The tracks mentioned above consist K.C. & The Sunshine 30 (35) JT, James Taylor ragtime, tango, waltz, schmaltz and favounies such as Hava Nagilah, of that one phrase repeated again My Yiddishe Momma, O Mcin Papa and again and . . . again. Disco Band romantic mood pieces. Those who and Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler On 28 (23) SHE DID IT, Eric Carmen cannot resist a set which includes The Roof. An odd inclusion is a action might stimulate sales, but 29 (33) MY FAIR SHARE. Seals Bye Bye Blackbird, My Blue recent live cut of Those Were The with so much better product about, & Croft Heaven. A Room With a View or it's doubtful. 30 (35) SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY, Courtesy of Billboard Days; another is a Yiddishe version * Paul Simon week-ending November 12. PAGE 64