SAT JULY THE FIZZLE FAMILY rj 26, 1980 THE CAROLINA TIMES 13 r 7 SOS Band I BUI TOJ,..w.1 I WEU....HC TC 1iKS'MflTTEt? "V X XM! IMULTEO4 USTEW....VrfnH "THE WHO MUKE ONE.1REN I HONCV?OU T X HAD AN OC . cxued p pce OF PORK SO I Is At It SVrX Q LIFT ME R TIP LSEEM UPSET' ARGUMENT A 9GiMrf l HIGH-.N- OU DOWT I VIITH A BS 1"" TO FEEL SO V a ftflT V TO MVSELF fJ WAITER Again rfcii?QJ r sv ii TDDHy' y "Take Your" Time (Do It Right) Part 1," the first single from TabuCBS recording ar- tists the SOS Band has been certified gold by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000. "Take Your Time" is bulleted on the Pop Charts in all three music trades for the week of July with the following posi- tions: 23 Billboard, 29 Cash Box and 30 Record World. On the Soul charts the single has been holding the Number The Human Face of Ch ina One position across the coun- try and is rapidly being added For more than 30 years, Shanghai, the second largest approximately two years of The Human Face Of China to more and more stations .much of China has been closed city m the world; and a follow- training, can attend to most of was produced by Suzanne throughout the U. S. Their to foreigners. But after four ing of two of China's many the basic health care needs of Baker and directed by Bob fast-selli- self-title-d debut LP years of negotiations- - with "barefoot doctors" who, with the people. Kingsbury. has so far reached bulleting Peking, an Australian film chart positions of 60 crew did receive permission Billboard, 42 Cash Box and 34 from China's Ministry of Record World, and was also Culture to produce a series of Following First Major Outing "Salesmaker of the Week" in five programs that look at the the July 5 issue of Record people and culture of today's World. China. The resulting series, SOS Band is currently in the The Human Face of China, midst of a successful national will air on ,UNC-T- V each Fri- Is Man tour with fellow CBS artists day at 9:30 p.m. on Channel 4 Clarence Burke Happy The Isley's, performing for beginning August 1. audiences in 10,000-20,00- 0 Each half-ho- ur segment seat arenas and coliseums. focuses on a different aspect Clarence Burke's new didn't think it would be possi- "The feelings of the guy in the Receiving strong, positive of daily life in China, dispell- album, The Invisible Man's ble to find that same family song parallel mine. He's notices on their performances, ing some of the mysteries long Band (Mango) has made him a feeling (the Five Stairsteps afraid of committing himself the Atlanta-base-d held by Westerners. In the happy man, indeed. The consisted of Clarence, his to his woman, I was afraid of SOS Band has accomplished, premiere show, "One Hun- album and the single, "All sister and three brothers). It committing myself to music. quite a feat for a debut band dred Entertainments," the Night Thing," have been ris- took a long time for me to In 'Nine Times Out Of Ten,' and LP. The band's previous Shensi Provincial Acrobatic ing steadily on the pop and trust anyone enough to work the same guy thinks he's performing history included Troupe is followed on tour R&B charts, but more impor- with them." beaten the odds and found playing mostly club dates, the and behind the scenes. The tant for Clarence, their success The Invisible Man's Band love and passion with the same first concert appearance being troupe is famous for a favorite represents the resolution of has reconciled Burke's yearn- person. It didn't work out for thi SRf" Tun fk Hat, afci.. with Chinese audiences, the personal conflicts he has strug- ing for a normal family life him, little things got in the Madison Square Garden kick- "100 entertainments" per- gled with all his life. with his passion for music. A way. But I think I've finally ' ing off the 20-pl- us city tour formed by acrobats. The Invisible Man's Band, tune like "Love Can't Come," beaten the odds... I've still got with The Isley's. Based in Sian, the group is Burke's first major outing in ostensibly about a man wrestl- a great family life and my regularly takes its shows the music industry since he left ing with his desire for a career has never been better." Cubie, with his own LP. througout the Shensi Pro- the Five Stairsteps. The Five woman and with his fear of Clarence Burke's success Clarence feels that The In- vince, sometimes spending as Stairsteps disbanded in the late commitment, is really a deeper has affected not only his wife visible Man 's Band "answered much as eight months ontour, sixties after recording their reflection of Burke's feelings and five children, but his a lot of questions," but may playing at mines, factories, ar- number one hit, "Ooh toward his art. "During the brothers, too. Kenneth, Den- have left several problems un- my camps and people's com- Child." Burke explains: past few years I've been strug- nis and James Burke are part solved. "I still have a few munes. "After the Stairsteps split up, gling with the notion that a of the Invisible Man's Band, things to work out... that's The film shows acts in the I developed a real fear of go- family life and a career in and their next project is help- what my second album will be troupe's repertoire, including ing back into the business. I music don't mix," he says. ing their younger brother, all about." such classical Chinese skills as juggling jars and plates and pyramide balancing tricks, as well as conjuring and comic acts like the popular lion dance. Friday Evening The is troupe always 1980 guaranteed a large audience. August 2, And while they do work on developing new acts, it's the WFMY WPTF WTVD WUNC WTTG WRAL WTBS WGHP traditional "100 enter- CH. 2 CH. 28 CH. 11 CH. 4 CH. 5 CH. 5 CH. 17 CH. 8 tainments" that come I people Cable 2 Cable 3 Cable 6 Cable 9 Cable 10 Cable 1? Cable 13 to see. Other shows in the series in-- 00 Face The Newlywed Joker's International Happy Days Happy Da tlanta Joker's ( Braves Wild elude look at a people's com- - Music Game Wild Kitchen Again Again mune team and the 715 P.M. Carol Tic Tac MacNeil M.A.S.H. Countdown vs. Tic Tac production " " Montreal working of a typical com-- i 45 Magazine Burnett Dough Lehrer Dough mune; a reiverboat journey 00 Incredible Diff'rent Incredible Washington Starsky Benson Expos Benson along one of the grandest links Q 15 Hulk Strokes Hulk Week & Hutch in China's network of water- O 30 " Facts Of " Wall Street " Goodtimc " Goodtime ways, the Yangtze River; a 45 Life " Week " Girls " Girls portrait of the day-to-d- ay life 00 Dukes Of Jack Johnson Dukes Of N. Carolina Merv Griffin ABC Movie: ABC Movie: of the Sun at work Family, Q 15 Hazzard " Hazzard People and at leisure in a suburb of C7 30 " " " Human Race 45 " I Of China " " " " ' ' git no 00 Dallas NBC Pro Dallas Free To News TBS News " 1 fl 15 " Boxing Choose fr&SC3CE!AK?S I U 30 45 " " " " " " 00 News News News Dick Cavett Prisoner: News Last Of News " 1 1 15 " " " CellBIkH The Wild 30 The Mary Tyler Captioned Odd Couple Dance Fever Late Movie: Fridays I Tonight " 45 Avengers " Moore ABC News "The " 00 Return Of " Late Movie: Perry Mason Fridays H Man" IS 7 Q 15 The Saint "A Case moitamn I CL 30 " Of Rape" 45 " I " I I Benny Hill.