- 'f rrf1' v Vinnie Barbarino takes up singing By Nick Suow Deseret. News music writer Tell the ghosts of David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman to move over, everyone. Here comes John Travolta, better known as Vinnie Barbarino " heard someone ask. Vinnie Barbarino, leader of the infamous Sweathogs remedial group in the popular televi sion series, Welcome Back, Hotter (seen locally Thursday at 7 p m. on KTVX Channel 4i. Vinnie Barbarino, the likeable young hnnd who has all the girls hearts beating twice as fast each time he walks into the room Vinnie Barbarino, the runaway star of Welcome girl Back, Hotter in the eyes of every 13 year-olWho? I d latest antics of the Sweathogs And since John Travolta, the young actor who plays Barbarino, has a fair singing voice, it was only a matter of time before a record company put two and two together, and came up with millions of dollars in record sales. Thats what Midland International records, distributed by RCA, is counting on as they release to With a very obvious tie-i- n John Travolta. Travoltas television role, of course. The songs on the album are formula pre-teenumbers designed to hit that segment of the record buying public which spends the most money girls 13 years old and younger. Mothers who may have forgotten that they too swooned to the songs of Johnny Ray and Frankie Avalon in the 1950s may look on John Travolta as a threat. But the only loss will be some neglected homework assignments by Vinnie Barbarino fans and some frayed nerves by their parents forced to endure repeated playings of the album. Travolta, at 22, is an experienced actor who has been working steadily since he was 16. Before playing Barbarino, he worked in the road company of Grease, a 19.50s nostalgia musical. Hes also been in more than 40 television commercials. And although his musical career is being promoted similarly to that of David Cassidy when Cassidy was doing The Partridge Family television series a few years back, Travolta could possibly resume his acting career once the Vinnie Barbarino croze dies down. My secret hope, however, is that all his fans dress up like Arnold liorshak, Barbarinos nutty sidekick who tur.es in each week to catch the room Fabric corating n m.r g the Fot To top off your John Travolta, Vinnie Barbarino of "Welcome Back, Kofter" fame. on Welcome Back, Hotter. Then, when Travolta starts making live appearances, hell be greeted hy an army of Horshaks, all raising their hands and shouting, Ooo! Ooo! It could happen Remember throw jellybeans at The Beatles? how they used to is a tool. de- It adds color, warmth and originality, especially when used on a ceiling. One designer covered a whole ceiling with a floral bed sheet. 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