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Show Fine programs offered at Valley Music Hall Liberace known in show business bus-iness circles as 'Mr. Showmanship" Showman-ship" will appear in concert at Valley Music Hall, April 7, 8, 9. He has been in show business busin-ess for twenty-five years and this is his all-new Silver Anniversary Anni-versary Show. Liberace has been greeted throughout his world-w i d e tours by sellout audiences and honored by a Royal Command Performance before Queen Elizabeth. The pianist presents a brightly varied evening of entertainment in which he sings, dances, jokes, and demonstrates dem-onstrates a full range of piano moods. Tennessee Ernie Ford, who populariz e d religious music, will bring his show to Valley Music Hall April 11 through 16, with a special matinee performance per-formance on Saturday April 16 at 2:15 p.m. Against all odds Ern fought the battle for the placement of hymns and spirituals on television. tel-evision. When he first made the decision to accept an offer of-fer to do network television, Ern told the executives that he would have to be allowed to sing a religious song, at the close of each program. Because the networks regulated regu-lated this type of .music to churches there was plenty of negative talk, and Ern almost lost his show, but he stuck to his principles and finally won his point. I As a result of this fight you hear hymn and spiritual music on many, many shows presently, present-ly, and these songs, along with eveiy other type he sings, havej made Ernie Ford a household word today. By way of proving how right he was when he insisted that religious music was music to be enjoyed no matter where or when,. Mr. Ford is listed as; the biggest seller of this type of music in the world today. The opening night performance perform-ance is completely sold out. |