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Show Monday, May 8, 1978, THE HERALD, Provo, Mac Davis Heats Up Television Thursday By JOAN GEOGHEGAN The man who composed the hit singles "I Believe country and western anymore than Donna Summer or KC and the in and Sunshine Band ; they're Music" Burning" both pop acts." What "Something's will heat up national he'll do for the May 11 television with a May 11 special is "A good ole Davis Show." special r on NBC. Mac The May 11 special will Mac Composer-singeDavis will team up with be "loosely" about Mac, songstress Donna Sum- Donna Summer and KC mer, KC and the Sunshine and the Sunshine Band Band and comedian Art getting together to put on Carney for an hour of the Claremont Concert. music on NBC. According to Davis, "Art Mac Davis, Ms. Sum- Carney is the nemesis of mer and KC and the every entertainer. He Sunshine Band rehearsed wants autographs for his their musical numbers n wife, his kids. He'll tie Las Vegas before arriv- the show together." Davis started writing ing in Los Angeles for the April 22 taping date. Part at 15, recorded his first of the special was done in hit at 27 and claims, "that overthe studio ; the rest was makes me a taped at a concert at night success." Although Claremont College in this songwriter composes both lyrics and melodies, California. Mac Davis was rehers-in- g he concedes "I'm forthespecial and per- probably a better lyric forming his night club act writer than melody at the MGM-Gran- d Hotel writer," because of his in Las Vegas. But, on lack of formal musical April 19, he closed in Las education. Mac Davis was born in Vegas and traveled to Los Angeles to wrap up work Lubbock, Texas, and on his special. raised in Atlanta, Since he will be play- Georgia. His musical ing, in part, fur an out- orientation grew from the door audience, Davis country and western says, "We'll use part of roots of his youth and my Las Vegas act. We branched into pop music. won't use 35 musicians, Mac says "you can't put a but will tone it down. I label on my music. It have three different ver- may get called country sions. One act for Las and western because I'm and have a Vegas, one for theaters in from Texas the round and one for con- southern accent. I do my many certs." country and western fans, tailored to please any but you can't really clasaudience. When asked sify 'Something's Burnabout the generic clasing' as country and sification of his music, he western." He continues, "You comments, "You can't see me as pop audiences, old, classify straight Mac Davis has an act DAYTIME MOVIE 2:00 O "Love Is A Many Splendorcd Thing" (1955) William Holden. Jennifer Jones. A Eurasian doctor and an American reporter fall in love in Hong W O MOVIE ONCE UPON A CLASSIC O MOVIE OO 8:30 0:00 6:00 NEWS OOO MASTERPIECE 8REPORT O 6:30 REPORT O O 7:30 WHAT'S HAPPENING!! MACNEIL LEHRER & KBYU-FM'- s hour long radio documentary series "Excursions" examines the roles played by Mormons in the media, Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. at 88.9 on the FM dial". Dr. Monte Burr McLaws, author of "Spokesman for the Kingdom" introduces the hour-londocumentary which features interviews with Edwin Butterworth, former public relations director of Brigham Young University; Earl J. Glade Jr., broadcast exg ecutive and whose father founded the Mormon Church's first radio station; and Henry A. Smith, former press T ! secretary to the LDS First Presidency and managing editor of the Church News section of the Deseret News. KBYU-Fproducer Gerry Pond who put together the program for many interviews with the three retired Mormon media specialists, and others, says the program deals with a number of ethical questions which face members of the Mormon Church who make their living in either the print or broadcast media. 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I find myself hitting notes that I didn't think 1 could reach, and I open up and move more on stage. I used to sit glued to a stool and just sit an' talk. I still do I like to talk that with the audience but at the same time I like to get up now and boogie." Although Mac Davis lives in L.A., he has "travelled extensively in the last eight years." In the last year, he has tried "to cut down (on travelMAC DAVIS will be joined by guest star disco queen Donna Summer in his special show Thursday at 9 p.m. on Channel ing) to get back to 2. Miss Summer has five gold albums and two gold writing." He has six new singles to her credit. songs on his new album "Fantasies," which is due to be released this Still, he does find fault spring. This summer, however, with doing a weekly TV it will be back on the road series: "When you do a for troubador Davis. TV series every week, you He'll be "touring this lose your creativity. Two summer in the East, do- specials a year are ing the theaters in the enough for me. You get round.. .then at the State predictable with a weekly Fairs at summer's end." show, there's not enough Once the special is time to do a clever finished, he's looking into variety show each week." With a night club act, doing a movie. He is Mac says, "You however, to for the script waiting be rewritten before giv- get plenty of time to do a ing it a final OK. It's not a stage act and can keep leading role, but a good changing it." part, and it will entail going to Rio de Janiero and Winnipeg Ballet a well with working NEW YORK (UPI) -known producer. Davis did a TV series The Royal Winnipeg Bal"The Mac Davis Show" let will make its first in 1974 on NBC. He Manhattan appearance 2 at City doesn't think he suffered March from over TV exposure, Center. Canada's oldest however. Instead, he ballet company will preclaims, "my album sales sent five New York quadrupled during this premieres in two separate programs. time." 10:30 NEWS FAMILY FEUD 0O CHIPS To MAC DAVIS THE ADVOCATES Q) MASTERPIECE THEATRE MACNEIL CROSS-WIT- 'Excursions' 10:00 EVENING O O O O Vl5 O O Kong in 1949 OOQ0D O ZOOM(R) Utah-T- 358 South 100 West 1600 S. SANDHILL OREM, UTAH RD. Provo, Utah 84601 Phone 375 - 0576 FINANCING AVAILABLE |
