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Show ' i 4A 5 lue ball Ijiie inuune, Show Biz-Wh- Miiiday, March Else? ere Music Makes Merry c neously working as singers, producers and writers. They believe there will be endless new careers for them if any of the current ones fizzle. Maybe well go into acting and TV appearances, says EDITORS NOTE Ah, to b one end elready e militon-eirend twenty now filled wim Hollywood with metyre voutnfgi tucce&Mft benk eecoonfe whj hev turned their own specie sound of music Into the sound of pnonev. But the young music moguls all are bothered by the frlghienlne thought: will they be h beens at 30? Hart. "I just might open the biggest beauty parlor in Beverly Hills someday," says the shaggy haired Boyce, quite seriously. If young people can control things, says Hart, the world will progress faster. Yourg people have new ideas and are more open to change. By Linda Deutsch Associated Press Writer - HOLLYWOOD The music Ls loud. It is encased in glass cubicles in huge glass and monuconcrete buildings ments to success and power end money. Inside, directing the decibels of deafening sound, sits the music worlds new aristocra- cy Beat!?-haire- Hes young men some so young its scary. Cal them or teenage tycoons, they are definitely taking control. Casually, their toes tapping rock rhythm, they sit in the big rhairs once occupied by middle-agehe dictators of the entertainment world. do." By their standards, success We did not come quickly. starved for four years, says We watched other Boyce. songwriters become big when we were nothing. They met on the Sunset Strip, trying to peddle music, when they were 18. They had their first hit, Lazy Elsie Mollie, in 1965. But it wasnt until they took over the Monkees that they moved up fast, producing the groups TV music and record albums. Money came fast, but the young these days are money-wisBoyce bought a house. Hart still lives in his old apartment. Their clothes are mod but not extravagant, and their favorite food is still cheeseburgers. Their money is invested. mini-mogul- s d o Made for Young The abundance of youthful successes in show business is nowhere more evident than in music. A young industry-reco- rds boomed less than 15 years ago it seems to have more room for the young. Jimmy Webb at 22 may be Hollywood's youngest millionaire. Herb Alpert, 33, is the t 0 w ns no tycoon. Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, both 22, call the shots for such names as the Monkees and Trini Lopez. A record e. produc- named Jimmy Bowen tells the likes of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra when a record is good. d careers, and tiie question that reverberates behind the drums and guitars: How long can It last? Hollywoods legend has been early success followed be early oblivion. In other ages of youthful glory, the gifted young burned out like iso many waxen candiDs. Sometimes it scares me, says a teen-agsongwriter not yet at the top. If I make it big now, will I be through 30? Jimmy Webb, who has parlayed some hit songs "By The Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita MacArthur Park, Lineman into a multimillion - dollar record, film and TV company, producing admits the big question troubles him. You get up in the morning and ask Am I still with it: at 14-F- Bowen says that wont happen to him. "You have to keep a challenge in your life. You should conquer what youre aftpr and then move on to something else. Does Bowen fear for his own career? Like other young moguls he sees only more success ahead. Ive tried to set up everything in my life on r plans. I figure that In five years Ill go into television and motion picture production. He notes almost wistfully: Great things are happening in this business today. But while we sit here, some is out there doing something that will be even greater. atmosphere of conservatism among the new tycoons. Theyre as staid a bunch of moguls as the 1940s might have produced. Private lives are private, and the social whirl that burned out young geniuses of other eras is gone. Jimmy Bowen, 31, has produced such giant hits as "Strangers in the Night and Thats Life for Frank Sinatra and "Everybody Loves Sunday Only Special has-bee- n 31. for Dean Martin. supervised albums for Bing Crosby and Somebody recently 36 5 O.SouthTState Associated Press a m s' first success came as a writer for the Smothers Brothers. Since then hp has had a hit record, a new hit Classical Gas, album, "The Mason Williams Ear Show, is having a book of poetry published and is proalbums for ducing m-orAndy Williams and Claudine W i 1 1 i Use tlie Daily Want Ads GET ABOARD OUR BRAND-WAGOYour best buys day In and day out are Penney own brands! We test endlessly to assure what we say in our slogan: "always first quality". We shop constantly to assure k ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY competitive prices. 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Productions Inc. makes record albums and will produce Webb's upcoming TV special. Webb is now doing the score for a psychedelic film version of "Peter Pan" starring Mia Farrow and when lie's not writing record albums for Richard Harris or concertos just for the heck of it, he works on the book for his first rock n roll operetta, "His Own Dark City. Afraid of burning out? Not really. There are so many things to write about, says Webb. It's a big world." At 22. Tommy Boyce and Hart already are Bobby triple-threa- t talents, simulta - ... other career as an actor. The trend toward doing more than one thing fascinates Mason Williams who manages to do at least 10. Multiplicity, he says, is a return to the concept of Renais- Still open? Getting hung up on my own grandeur: Getting into bags: Every day I have to make sure Im fresh." Amid the pressures of success, Webb says: I try to keep my mind on my work and write like I always wrote." But its difficult, and at 22 Webb says he feels "a responsibility to be successful. remodeled mm Success at an early age, he says, has its advantages. You have more time to enjoy success but the tragic part is when a man is a What I have tried to create for myself, says Alpert, is a musical identity of my own and it is wonderful to have succeeded. Fulfillment ls very warm but fulfillment belongs to a time and I cannot accept that todays fulfillment will be enough for tomorrow." Alperts goals for tomorrow are as large as today triumphs: three films to be made, expansion into the foreign market and maybe an- He's Got Troubles'? Newly SUSS SEE Alpert, who looks even younger than his 33 years with shaggy hair and baby face, started out with an investment of $200. He now owns the Charlie Chaplin Studios, sells 15 million records each year and plans to start producing movies any day. Musical I.D. e o mansion above the Sunset Strip. Now 27, Spector has stepped from center stage and lives quietly in his hilltop retreat. Phil Spector Productions still operates, but Spec-to- r produces few records himself and rarely gives interviews. The major difference between Spector and his successors seems to be a prevailing ? Just off the Sunset Strip, multimillionaire Herb Alpert his $30 million oversees empire, A&M Records, the company spawned by his Tijuana Brass. in 1908. Im would say from his stance at the top of the heap, "It allows me to buy more chili dogs." It aLso allowed him to buy Lance Reventlows energy. They Have Much In Their Common when Spector e And Hart adds: You dont burn out by using creative energy. It only creates more a many-facete- Money? Sammy Davis. But outside the trade he is barely known. He lives quietly in the suburbs, miles from with his wife, singer Keeley Smith and her two teen-agdaughters. The name of Bowens company, Amos Productions, appeared on 21 million single records and 850,000 albums in the last jear, but Jimmy sees the firm as a fledgling just its major growth. beginnk-Cites Tragedy you want to. unpigeonholed talent named Mason Williams writes, produces, performs and says he made a quarter of a million dollars he wrote a song called To Know Him is to Love Him, they couldn't get him off the record charts. He was 17 when he wrote "Spanish Harlem" and followed it with his biggest hit, "Youve Lost That Lovin Feeling. Lot of Chili He Wheeldon ASHBOURNE, ENGLAND (Reuters) landed in his strange kept trying to frighten off pigeon loft, but it wouldnt go away. Finally Jack wrote to a national pigeon association asking it to check on the birds ring number in case someone had reported it missing. Yes, said the association, you reported it missing nine years ago. Jack said he released the pigeon on a training flight in he said. 1960. "It never returned, so I destroyed its records, Mini-Mogu- ls Cite; Belief We wont bum out," says Boyce. You only bum out if er And Ancient? Boyce interjects that "older people can lie young If they want to. We know a guy whos 35 and acts as young as we bantering d Pigeons Home to Perch After 9 Years on Lurch - Jack bird that the II, U)oU ... USE PENNEYS DOWNTOWN SALT LAKE scrubber It will power scrub, wet pick up, apply wax, polish and buff, damp mop and shampoo the carpet. Also takes TIME PAYMENT PLAN MONOAY ,HU,SMY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS TILL 9 P.M. |