NEIN MlskAl. rxr a On sale, Friday, week ending August 9, 1969 Enistutiv• Dirac-tor: MAURICE KINN ZEPPELIN ALBUM Editor, STONES, ANDY GRAY New WINS GOLD DISC Foundations are planning - LM oF 6 RANADA TV'S FI Assistant Editor. ED ZEPPELIN has been PARK IS TO BE NATIoNi JOHN WELLS Li awarded a Gold Disc for sales In excess of one million BEEN EDITED INTO AN HoUl Musical AT 10.30 pm. News Edition dollars on its debut album. DEREK JOHNSON The presentation was made b) THE TV SPECIAL .A01-11 Atlantic vice-president Jerry Advairtisom—ent- rock-musical pantomime SCHEDULED FOR TRANsmISS Express Wexler at a special lunch eon Measerihn but he added that, if this yeur prayed imprac- PONED — HAS NOW BEEN SE A ROCK-STYLE muswal pantomime based upon In New York last week. The PERCY C. MCKIM; TEMBER 9 (10.30 pm). "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs" is ticable, it would definitely be staged the following group's second LP is nearing completion, and already has planned by the Foundations — who would take Christmas. The NME understands that the group n2 SIRAND, fatilrIn W.C.2 advance orders in America . of the roles of the dwarfs in the production. The envisages the pantomime in the style of the tribal Pkee• (lei al lion) tali Wales over 200,000 — thus setting 61.1112MA (III Merl lansmos6 Leaden show would have an entirely new musical score musical "Hair." it well on the way to another The idea has already been discussed with a written by the group, with a coloured actress play- Gold Disc. MEW bes *erns IMPU M1101. i.e lame ing the. role of Snow White. The Foundations are major film company, which has expressed interest Zeppelin has now completed 115 el Sha Meet Ise rol e/• law few IMIII R O M currently working on the music for the show, in in producing a movie adaptation if the project the first leg of its seven.week It NM Ammo. leslemed. Cilherie Davy Jon the hope that it can he completed in time for proves successful. The Foundations are tentatively U S. tour, which will earn it Phan Pit BIN W WI Pam Maymed 7.3111 presentation this Christmas. booked for an Australian tour at Christmas, but a 'minimum 350,000 dollars, It r. iPC Miniknos Ltd Reproduction of any matenal As we closed for press, a spokesman told the the pantomime would take precedence over this, has already broken the ONKEE DAVY JONES W A! ing box-office record at asthma posmission is strictly lorbrdden NME that much depended upon whether a suit- if it is completed in time — in this case the M HIS WIFE AND BABY. T Chicago Kinetic Playground, able theatre could be found for the project — Australian visit wntild he put hack to the spring. GUEST IN THE TENNESSEE E and played to capacity houses T1SH AND AMERICAN s(REEls at the C'eveland M usic TAKE OTHER TV DATFS Another Elvis BUT ARE DROPPING BRITISH TOUR Ca en is at. TV show set after Berry ban and Creedence refusal -FINIS Presley is to star in another hour- "[HE Foundations have cancelled their autumn concert tour of Great Britain, due to have Now Jack Bruce .-- long special for America's NBC-TV — begun on September 27. Chuck Berry was to have co-starred with the group and — as it will be filmed towards the end of the previously reported — it was hoped to secure Creedence Clearwater Revival as an additional year. and M ak be screened in the States at attraction. But although a complete itinerary had already been set, the entire protect has Christmas. Presley's first NBC spectacular now been scrapped. The Foundations now plan to tour Britain early next year, providing was networked in America on December 3 this does not clash with their panto plan. Reason for the cancellation is that the promoters in his own TV shi and is being repeated there on Sunday, decided to drop Berry from the tour, Clearwater proved to be unavailable, and no other suit- F O R MER Crea m bassist Jack Bruce is to star in his own August 17. But there is still no firm news to be directed and produced by Tony Palmer, famed on it being transmitted in this country, al- able big-name acts could he booked at such comparatively short notice. A spokesman for the Pounda- " All My Loving." Bruce's first solo LP " Songs For A Tan a though a BBC-TV spokesman told the NME tions explained: "After London's that "negotiations are progressing satis- Royal Albert Hall banned Chuck August 29, and the TV show will be based on this albums. factorily." Berry, several other theatres stated The film is being made by During his current season at Las Vegas In- their disapproval. This, coupled Robert Stigwood's own company— ternational Hotel — expected to be the first NEW SEEKERS' DEBUT Tv with the fact that he was a rather which is also filming the Bee Gees' of several similar U.S. engagements in the , uneconomic proposition, prompted special "Cucumber Castle." Bruce coming months — Elvis is drawing from a re- us to abandon our plan to sign is also writing the script for the pertoire of 80 songs and is changing his act him for the tour film, which revolves around his nightly. He continues at this venue until August Gene Pitney solo special " Soon afterwards we learned 25. when he is followed there by Nancy Sinatra. that. In view of its heavy U.S. own life story, and much of the com mitments. the Clearwater Re- action will be shot on location in • Elvis has recorded the Beatles' " Hey Jude" G Pitney is the star of BBC-2's "Colour Me Pop " tomorrow ENE vival is not interested in tour.ng his native Scotland. for inclusion on his next album. This is one (Saturday); he is accompanied by the Mike Cotton Sound in Britain for the time being. It of the numbers he is featuring periodically in Tony Palmer — who also direc- a show which was recorded during his last British visit. The For- therefore seemed logical to post- ted the TV coverage of the Cream's his act — as is the new song "Suspicious tunes are showcased in the following week's edition of this pone the tour unto' a more con- farewell concert — is expected to /ffind," which is expected to be issued shortly venient time." series (16 ). include filmed sequences of the as his latest single. Abbe Lane is the guest in the first of four Mantovani shows, The Foundations will now shond Cream in action. It is not yet which occupies BBC-2's "Show Of The Week" spot on Sunday. the first ten days of October filming August 17. Moira Anderson is booked for the " Morecambe And their musical contribution to the new known whether the other ex-merri- Colu mbia film " Takes A Girl Like hers of Cream, Eric Clanton and Wise Show" the following week (24), and Bruce Forsyth and Terri You." Marring Ilay ley Mills and Ginger Baker, will participate in Stevens are set for the "Harry Secombe Show " on August 31. Oliver Reed — plans for which were YOUR POP LINE-UP the Bruce special — although it Harry Secombe also appears in BBC-I's final "Roy Castle revealed in the NME Iwo seas ago. Show" tomorrow (Saturday), when he joins Francoise Hardy. The remainder of the period tel is considered probable they will do The same channel covers the Miss United Kingdom contest on Fri- aside for Ihr pacitag, tour sill now so if they are in Britain at the be occupied by a Scandinavian tour. time of shooting. COMING ON RADIO 1 day, August IS, when the cabaret spots are filled by Mark Murphy and Alan Randall, JIM MY YOUNG SHO W Status Quo. L•nda Kendrrck. Alan Price is resident in a new children's series on BBC-I, to Mud. Wayne Fontana and the Pantomime. Cat's be screened from mid.October. Title has not yet been finalised, but Ey.. Tomebox. Two Of Eac h. Creme Caramel and it will feature a weekly folk spot and will introduce up-and-com- the Terry Lightfoot Band (all neat week. August ENGELBERT —Xmas in 11.15), Vanity Fare. Searchers, Jackie Trent and ing groups. Tony Hatch, Marty Wilde and the Weather. Selena Jones Johnstone. Freshman. Orange Bicycle and the Johnny Arthay Orchestra (August 16-22) Georgie Fame cabaret showcase PETE S SATURDAY PEOPLE - Harmony Grass. Acker Vegas; Dee TV tomorrow Birk Band and Mao Hams and the Anucing Dancing Georgie Fame is the star of BBC-2's " International Cat...et " Band itomorrow. 9), Anda Hams with the Johnny on Saturday, August 16. Also on BBC-2, Oscar Peterson and Robert Howard Orchestra, Fortunes and the Danny Moss Farnon are to co-siar in a "Show Of The Week" presentation, to IS almost certain that Lngelbert Humperdinck Greek Theatre. He then returns to London to film Quartet (August 16) p be filmed in October for subsequent transmission. DAVE CASH PROGRA M ME Grapefruit. Sw•r•ging Blue will spend Christmas in New York, starring the first edition of his previously-reported Anglo. Yorkshire-TV begins screening a second series of six "See J.ns, Unit Four Pl. Two. Sight And Sound, In his second month-long cabaret season at the American TV series, after which he flies back to the Freshmen. A mboy Dukes. Gentle Influence the Les" shows on Wednesday.