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Show -TwnUamS I I RayConniff I 033 1 1 PETER NERO 1 I JOHNNY MlCiyVVlUW" IntlTlieSilwSA The S,nge, Company present THE FIRST TIME EVER MATHIS I JteU'TheGodfa.her concert television SONG flV 1 WWWW! ,ncld,ng ncert for television Love Theme From "The Godfather" 9TTNG 1 V J&aW ' fT WherelsTheLoveDaddyDontYoi.WalkSoFasl . ., . i'??..,. . , BabylmAWantYoulHurtingEachOther rT1 I l-' DayByDayBrandyAloneAqninlN.-lurallyl LIZA MINNELLI Never Can Say Goodbye! Brians Song BLUt. IAI 2ss-i 1x4 i r$L i v-wi ass n f -t - f J Y 14 V SonOIAPreocherMan - 0 J V He s My Brother W&V X I l 1 ByeByeBbclb.d I" f S Sl Make It Easy I , I I V 2 j 1 rV 1 HfWmr" L I I -At-""rtm I .. rf. . bi.h. KC 31626' I 30ft Mi Barbra Streisand Percy Faith KC 31629' THE-MIDDLE-OF-WHOSE ROAD? On Sunday, September 10th, Liza Minnelli's own special "Special" was aired on NBC. Directed with enormous skill and polish by Bob Fosse and with a score--including special materialtailored mater-ialtailored to Liza by John Kander and Fred Ebb ("Cabaret" composer and lyricist) Miss Min-nelli Min-nelli let the world know that whoever her mother was (Judy Who?) or her father (which Min- nelli?) she is a child who has her own. One of those that God, or somebody anyway, seems to have blessed. The show was all about Liza. A patter song on how to spell her name. "My Marrmy" recalling Miss Garland. The opener, "Say Yes!" is a great song from an Ebb and Kander flop, "Seventy. Girls, Seventy." The show may have died aborning, but that song became a standard that Sunday night. "Say Yes!" seems to be what Liza Minnelli is all about- -affirmation and energy. Okay, maybe she can't look I for silver linings while washmj dishes like her old lady used to Ho and mavbe her dancing isn t KC dlOZ- CONTEMPORARY ROOTS The move forward musically is a constant. Contemporary groups that were once locked into the limitations of rock are now spreading out' their vistas, leaving choruses and bars for jamming, for improvisation, improvi-sation, for ad libs, for freedom free-dom of expression. We are all better off for it. The walls around Columbia are bouncing happily these days. The acknowledged in- I novators are walking across the welcome mat in greater numbers. The creative talents are finding cheering crowds in coffee houses and campus concerts. There is a sense of excitement. New music is happening. hap-pening. Nobody is asking questions about whether anyone any-one is a jazz artist or not. The criterion is the talent. The music they make. Great music. Music that makes you feel great. Miles Davis has been an exciting ex-citing new direction in music Country Music People Country music is a national staple, attracting an ever-widening ever-widening audience, spreading its base from the south-central states, from Nashville, the second largest recording center in the nation. Home for Columbia's Co-lumbia's Country Music People, Peo-ple, for the great sounds of Johnny Cash, Tammy Wyn-ette, Wyn-ette, Lynn Anderson, Earl Scruggs, Ray Price, Marty Robbins, Carl Smith, The Chuck Wagon Gang and so many other great country stars. Country's Greatest Hits 20 Great Stars-20 Great Hit At A Special Low Pnce - ; : - rpianenn i walk The Line JOHNNY CASH El Paso MARTY ROBBINS ji J Release Me ,1" RAY PRICE lf',-2 ManWithAPIan "'-i t CARL SMITH ' "41 North To Alaska f . y JOHNNY HORTON fir i Little Black Book .." JIMMY DEAN But it's all quite logical. It'i THE I "SC'EECC-QD It's Twice As Good The best way to introduce yourself to the sound of the future is to walk into your favorite record store and ask to hear the new Columbia "SQ" demonstration disc an especially-designed quad record rec-ord that takes a variety of sounds and sources and puts you, the listener, in the middle mid-dle of its natural environment. Country Music People (Continued) Rosemary Clooney and Jo Stafford sang country hits. Patti Page made them. And Nashville grew. And grew. And grew. Country music had great appeal. ap-peal. The directness. The simplicity. sim-plicity. The down-to-earth quality of the lyrics. It still has. The influence keeps spreading. spread-ing. To rock groups like The i Byrds and Poco. Nashville attracts at-tracts the sophisticated singer, fountry ' Tammy Wynette Boots Randolph his i tr j Tony Bennett Jerry Vale M Lf Liza Minnelli yet quite up to her father's standards stan-dards for big-budget musicals, but she put a brand on every song she sang. Even James Thurber's old favorite sweet tune, "Bye Bye Blackbird," seemed to belong be-long to her. And that's what Middle-of-the-Road is all about. Sure, sing other people's songs in a clear true voice that delivers the lyric. Put a well-arranged orchestra behind you. Just be sure that after you've taken everybody down that long, long road they know who was doing all the power driving. Our local hip gypsy (she reads only flow-through tea bags) promises pro-mises this Special will be repeated repeat-ed If so, catch it, before they rename the Mean Highway after Liza with a Z. RECORD BUFFS Minneapolis. The Electric Fetus, a shop near the University of Minnesota, Minne-sota, has been evicted forstaging a nude record sale. Customers were offered a free $4 record of their choice if they disrobed in the rear of the shop and walked to the front to make their selection. Co-owner Dan Foley, 26, said: "It was just a lark. ..How did we know 40 people would show up and qualify for a free record?" for a generation. Extraordinary. Extraordi-nary. A catalyst. Bellweather. And a magnet for enough renowned re-nowned musicians to fill a "Who's Who." Charlie Byrd graces the halls with his presence. And Bill Evans. And Ramsey Lewis. So does the legendary Charles Mingus and the searching, unconventional Or-nette Or-nette Coleman. John McLaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra is another an-other of the creative groups who has found a home here. They and all of the above and others headed in similar directions di-rections are turning the world of -music around, pointing ahead, riding the welcome wagon across the trails they are blazing. It is almost sacrilegious to calk about these creative, contemporary con-temporary groups and not mention each and every player. They all. contribute so much to the innovations. We apologize. apol-ogize. Rather than just complain you can change the country vote been coming to uns mi Look at what country music is. It's grown out of centuries-old centuries-old Scottish, Irish and English songs that were brought to the hills of Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and the Carolinas by early settlers. The songs were blended with Negro musical mu-sical influences (the blues, the guitar) and took on religious and inspirational colorings. Pioneer recording men used to take portable equipment into the hill country in the 1920's to record the hoe-downs, the sacred songs, the "heart" songs. Recording grew more sophisticated in the next decade. dec-ade. But not much. Country music had a very limited audience. audi-ence. Then, came World War II when non-Southerners (and upper-class Southerners who had looked down their noses at this music) found themselves in army barracks scattered around the South. They listened lis-tened to radios. Heard mostly country music. Developed a taste for the simple melody, the lively novelty. And carried the interest back home. Country Coun-try and traditional music kind 0r joined hands in the 50's. ( Continued) tTT7n i appeals to such stars as Bob Dylan. Say "Nashville" and it's synonymous with country music. mu-sic. It grows more sophisticated every day. Urbanized. But the growth also underscores the split in the country music scene -the difference between blue-grass blue-grass and old-time music on one hand, "modern country" on the other. ' But "modern country" is becoming the dominant sound. A few years ago nearly every city in the South and Middle West had something like the Big D Jamboree in Dallas or the Chicago Barn Dance. But tastes have changed. They are nearly all gone now. The Wheeling Jamboree still runs. So does the fabled Crand Ole Opry in Nashville. Maybe barn dances are dying dy-ing out. Certainly there is a change in "country music." But the change is attracting more people than ever. Young. Old. City folks. Farm hands. Somehow, Some-how, these days, it almost all comes out of Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee. That's where Columbia's Country Music People are. TOHNNY I I ill Ray Price WT Carl Smith n.i. ii - " ' David Houston f , , ' II FlFK D.nullhusumllUuhmaMamncu f, PAYCHECK . Alldcisoil AmrS? i';WK APerjeclMcilch ; somebody f jV jcanl -Wmr- ) DcSieilipie f "W- f V ITTAKf.S Wl CounlryHols 3 m -1 ,T, ir. W-7,;, I . I I AWOMANSI.OVK ,'' ? '' S,?l,J, Thais Wh.ll . t iff 3 iTIwIlltsO) l(Hltl I y ; ff t& t j c SOMr.BOMY , ' 9 ff' L Y, M,.,s IW!1 SomosNov,os I J-3 I if ff y 1 LK - Mito.kfo 4 it WT", lltslmpossiblei l S l?i J t : f I'- ' im Famous . 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