SPOTLIGHT ON YOUR TOWN 2 RECORD MIRROR, April 17,1971 Give rock ahand IN SEPTEMBER 1969 I visited Toronto, Canada, MALCOLM ROBERTS andwhilethere I witnessedwhat I guitarist andohn he goes and edition of 'Junior Choice' Star consider to be the makesrecordslike'It's is mainly just that. greatest music Only MakeBelieve'and Obeying yourin the morerecently'Dream instructionslikea good presentation ever. Baby'. The latter is a note boy,I have sent in many Itcateredforevery fornotecopyofRoy requests for music by such cold taste and so presented the Orbison'soriginalhitof non -current hit paraders as WHAT ishappeningto bestof vintage rock'n' the early sixtiesand HelenShapiroorVince roll(JerryLee Lewis, althoughRoy'sversion Hill, but always in vain. MalcolmRobertsthese days? His last three singles Little Richard,Chuck made number two in the Ahwell,perhapsI'll Berry, Bo Diddley, Gene chartsitwas hardly one play it safe this week andhavebeenchartworthy material, and his phrasing Vincent and Lord Sutch) of his most notable efforts askfor`Grandad'! - andalsopresentedthe - so whyhasGlen HARRY MORRISON, 131and delivery are excellent. bestofmodernrock recorded it? Salisbury Avenue, Barking,So why is he out in the (Plastic Ono Band, Doors, Theremustbe Essex. cold at present? Chicago, Tony Joe White). thousands of good songs VAL:Butitis Surelyhisrecent There was a film made knocking around on LPs supposedtobe'Juniorappearance on 'Top of the Pops' has convinced even ofthisshow,entitled and Bsideswhichare Choice',Harry,andI `SweetToronto'which lightyearsaheadof doubt if too many juniorsthe hardest synics that he through royalty Dream Baby. I know that know of Helen and Vince!is a talent to be reckoned difficulties wasnever ifI were in Glen's shoes with. Let's see more pies WELL done Dave Eager inyour magazine, more screened. I feelthatif I'd be digging around in fordoingsuchagreatTV and radio appearances John Lennon was to offer myrecordcollection show.Itisbetterthan hisroyaltiestogood and more of his discs in tryingtofind some of Tony's because you playthe top ten. - DONALD charitiesmany ofthe thoseunheardofsbut more records and do notDARROCH, 4 Cupar artistsmightdecideto goodies! - JIM DANDY, spend a long time talking. followsuit.Hencetwo 94 Stonor Road, Drive,Greenock, Well done to Dave LeeRenfrewshire. birdskilledwithone Travis also for taking the stone, or should we say JOHN ROCK IN' ON WHILST admittingtoa showoverforaweek oneBeatle.- grudgingadmirationfor while Tony Blackburn was Where's I WAS interested to readFairport Convention, Mott SCREAMIN' BRIAN, EdStewart'sbenevolent ill. - PHILIP BENDALL, yourarticleontheHoople,Lindisfarne, church institute which has (BrianT. Simmons),4 mannertowardspop's 89SevingtonRoad, Dusty? 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Week after providingan invaluable over six months ago and University and the Trentprogressivesceneclub farworse.- ROBERT nothingatallfortheir week you earnestly beg us servicetothevarious her last LP 'From Dusty Polytechnic. whichrecentlymanaged SHEARER, 5 Little reputation.TakeGlen all to send in requests for communities.Butthose WithLove' was released Recent groups tovisit toaccommodateLed Meadow Cotgrave, Campbell for instance. other than the current top whowereexpectingnearly a year ago. Sureley here include T. Rex, Free, Zeppelin.Aswellasa Nottingham. A finesinger, a great twenty, yet edition after all -day pop stations weresomething could be done cruellydeceived,for to improve matters. althoughstationowners There was some talk at Who picked Cleo Laine,then? andtheiradvertisersthe end of 1970 of a new I WOULD liketo know giventoanestablished withtheSeasons,Neil talentwhoneedthe would want this in orderalbumbeingmadebut who was responsiblefor group who can sell LPs by Diamond, and groups who exposure,not singers who nothing seemstohave giving the LP spot to that toattract the maximum the thousand, or to one of arewhat'Pop' is all havebeenaroundfor audiences,the MU willcome from this. old never was, Cleo Laine themanydeserving, about. years.-STEVE fight to limit needle -time, In the States, Atlantic on 'Top of the Pops', and talented bands, ignored by I wonder how many of DALTON, 9 Freshfield and will probably set uphave released a new single howthedecision was the all too powerful BBC. theyoungergeneration Gardens,Allerton, regional recording studios 'WhatGoodIs/I Love reached. - JOHN LEYTON, 48 enjoyed Cleo Laine? Don't Bradford, BD15 7PP. toprovidethestationsYou'/'What Do You Do I doubtverymuch NolanRoad,Blackburn, getme wrong, I think with 'live band' tapes. WhenLoveDies'.Why whetheranyofthe MICK Jagger might not be Lancs. Cleo is one of the best in the greatest actor - but Those who exclaimcan't that be released here thousandorso people her field of music. But she in More who will buy the record AFTER watching Top of hehasjustmade "sounds just like the BBC Britain? stuckoutlike asore with commercials wouldn'timportantthough,let's would have been the Pops tonightImust `Performance' the film of voice my opinion on the thumb on the high spot of theyear. - CHRISTINE be far wrong!" -have a new LP. - DAVID watching TOTP anyway, the programme. STEPHEN ROBINSON, 45,GRIFFITHS, 17 so neitherviewersnor LP spot. WHITEHEAD, Flat 3, 180 Come on 'Beeb', give FranciscanRd.,Tooting Charminster Road,Heol-y-Gors,Whitchurch, Cleo benefitted. Inrecentweekswe Cardiff. The LP spot should be havehadFrankieValli ussomenewexciting Broadway, S.W.17. Worcester Park, Surrey. MAVE...the droopy groupie WHATWOULD you LIKE HOW A6OuT AN ACTON THAT WAS FAB, RT0 To DO NOw? POSE-4- el REPLAy SUsT EA C3 itorLE.. 3 RECORD MIRROR, April 17, 1971 ONCE upon a time she was because Motown was just always reading and trying to learn. justanotherskinnylittle beginning in Detroit, so there was "I can tell you - everything in tomboy in Detroit. She alwayssomewheretogoand my life has been worthwhile. All played baseball, climbed audition. Therewasthisguy ofithas taught me something, trees and had to force herself named Paul, and his friend Eddie, even mymistakes. Even the to take an interest in sewing andtheyhad asinging group mistakes of other people. And I'm and suchlike. called the Primes. They wanted to learning right this minute - I'm Now, in quicksuccession, form a girl's group to go on gigs learning about the business end of Diana Ross has been voted: 'Top with them. entertainment and oftelevision FemaleSingerOfTheYear', "That'showthePrimettes production from Berry Gordy. 'World'sMostPopularSinger', started off." 'Female Entertainer Of the Year', There was Mary Wilson, and and listed among the 'Top Ten FloBallardand a girlnamed Opportunity Best Dressed Women In America'. Betty.Itdidn't stay that way. Betty got married and Flo was pulled out so she could devote "This show gives me an TV Special more time to her studies. There opportunitytodo a lotof was little money about - Diana comedy and acting,aswellas designed and made stage clothes singing and dancing. So you're Which is quite a learning. Right? As to movies, and transformation. so the girls could work without straining theirfamilies'tight Broadway, I hope to do both Just to set the sealon how when the stories and the time are Diana has managed to get along budgets. right" without the Supremes very well - "I worked on at a department The brown -eyed 5ft 2in girlis showingherfirst -ever store,it was Hudson's, and that they're obviously impressed at the way television special across the U.S. was just to earn enough to pay her "discoveries", the Jackson 5, network on Sunday. Guest stars my bus fares to rehearsals and have dominated the charts. "But are the Jackson 5, Bill Cosby and jobs. what's more impressive is the way Danny Thomas. Good these kids have remained totally So Diana was rehearsing for the unspoiled.I have them over to my her "Anyway, our guitar player, show, which includes house for dinner and believe me, impressions of comics like W. C. MarvinTamplin, went tojoin theyallpitchin and wash the Fields, Charlie Chaplin and Harpo Smokey Robinson and the dishes. Marx,and shewastaking 'a Miracles - you know,itwas nostalgic look back at how hard Smokey who told us that we were she had to fight in the early days prettygood,but suggested we Kick to get any kind of acceptance at stayed on working hard until we all. got older. "I get such a kick out of all of "Those Motown offices - just it. But youstillhaveto go forward. Because I'm interested in three small houses with lots of Nostalgia making a dollar earn a dollar, it's funny little rooms - well, we beensaidthatI'llsoon be a just couldn't stay away. We background executive. Not true. I Nostalgia comes easier when got an audition and this you're sitting in a plush armchair have no plans to quit performing. little guy passed through in the star dressing room. She Being in front of the footlights is the room while we were still where it's really at for me. said, first: "If I'm going to do singing 'There Goes My something, then it's going to "Really it's a matter of keeping Baby' and later we your sense of balance. As a kid, be the right thing because found out it was the money I saved by making my I'm going to work with Berry Gordy." everythingI've got to own pleated skirts enabled me to make it right.'' They sang away spendon bobby -sox,sweaters, in the background dresses and gowns.