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Show Friday, December Bonds wants to escape from oldie shows, tours By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatures Writer Bruce Springsteen has wound up the career of rock n roller Gary U.S. Bonds, and it looks as if theres enough momentum to keep it whirling. Boiids had an LP last year, Dedication," on EMI America Records, and an LP this year, On the line. It made its way g up the pop charts and the first single released from it, Out of Work, attracted a lot of attention. Springsteen and Miami Steve Van Zandt and wrote songs for the albums. the first song Dedication, Springsteen wrote for Bonds, gave that album its title. Springsteens E Street Band, in which Van Zandt is lead guitarist, and Bonds band recorded together. Bonds daughter Laurie wrote lyrics for the next single, Turn the Music best-sellin- Down. Hopefully, Bruce is going to do some more, Bonds says. The combination is working out great for me. If he doesnt have time, Im a big boy now. Im sure I can handle it. Bonds, born in 1939 in Jacksonville, Fla., moved to Norfolk, Va., at age 3. In 1959, Frank Guida recorded him singing New Orleans on his Legrand label and put a patriotic insert into his name Gary Anderson Gary Buy U.S. Bonds Anderson. That got compressed to Gary U.S. Bonds. Bonds now uses both Anderson and Bonds. He has arrived at airports unable to recall in which name he made his plane reservation. He recorded two songs he wrote, Quarter to 3 and Gary U.S. Bonds School Is Out, in 1961. Twist, Twist Senora in 1962 was his last hit record until Springsteen came into his life. Bonds says, Quarter to 3 was taken off the market once. They said I was singing dirty words. Then they could never find them. But the rumor helped the sales of it. My family and friends were at the recording session. God forbid I should say something dirty in front of my mother. I wouldnt be here today. Bonds records didnt have much distribution. He didnt want to keep making records duplicating his previous ones, and British records swamped the American market. So his recording career ended, except for occasionally making records for a flat fee from small My Love companies. One, Song, was good, Bonds says, and the rest were garbage. But Bonds has consistently performed live. The British records were selling well but it clubwise, for Americans. I was always a rock n roller, never a rhythm n blues artist. So I got to play in some of the clubs that actually were paying a lot of money. New Dick Clark played Orleans" on American Bandstand in 1960, a year after it played around Norfolk. He booked Bonds on a number of his tours, in the 1960s and into the 70s. In the 1970s, he did oldies tours and played lounges in the Holiday Inn and Sheraton chains. He and his band also played discos, weddings and bar mitzvahs. It was at a disco in New where Jersey Advocate, Price, Utah Bruce Springsteen came in, listened, jammed and said hed like to help Bonds cut a record. Bonds didnt know who Springsteen was. Didnt he keep up with pop music? I thought I did, he says ruefully. Years before, Bonds met Laurie Davis while performing in Wildwood, N.J. She came to catch my show one night and the next night I went next door where she was singing. Being Fast Eddie that I am, we made a date. She went back to New York and I went back to Virginia. Id travel wherever she was and when she was off, shed find out where I was. All those years of working without fame didnt make Bonds bitter or stale, he says. I always had fun, he explains. I enjoyed what I was doing ... But theres a stigma if youre an oldies act. They feel you cant do it any more. I hope now I can prove we can still do it Friday, Dec. 3 Monday, Dec. 6 Price Elementary School PTA annual Christmas Raaar on Friday and Saturday in the school auditorium from 4 to 8 p.ra. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Castle Dale Utah Stake of the Church ot Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints Hill present Handel's Messiah at a special performance at 7:30 p.m. at the stake center in Cheese and butter distributed to the needy, for seniors: Carbon County Senior Citizens Center, 30 F, 200 South, Price; for under 60: Community Action Program office, 109 S, Carbon Ave., Price; for all Fast Carbon City residents: at the Leisure Club. Hearing on basic public health services and performance slumlords for local health departments, 3 p.m., Castle Dale, free. Saturday, Dec. 4 Santa Claus Hill have treats for children of all ages at the Price City Library from 9:30 a m. to noon. Portraits available for $2.75. Tho free movies Hill he shimn beginning at 10: 30 a.m. Carbon County Chamber of Commerce Great Turkey drawing, First Security Rank in Helper, II a.m. Southeastern District Health Department conference room, 6 F. Main, Price. Price Men's Raskrthall meeting, 7 p.m. in the Carbon School District Rnaid Office lecture room, 65 K. 400 North, Price. College of Eastern Ctah's traditional Christmas Concert, 7:30 p.m., Geary Theatre, (T.l! campus. Tuesday, Dec. 7 Glve-Ana- y Pioneer Trails State Park, 2601 Smmysule Ave., Salt Iaike City, hosts carolers, musicians and Christmas play s, 2 p.m. .also Dec. 11 and 18, free. Call noon The Utah Museum of Fine Arts on the University of Utah campus features the "Festival of Cultures" uith art, costumes, food, dance, mtisii and crafts from five cultures, 2 to 5 p.m., Sunday also, free. Call Utah Jazz vs. the Chicago Rolls, 7 30 p.m., Salt Palace, Salt $30. Call (Tty, $1.50 - College of Eastern Utah men's basketball vs. College of Southern Idaho, National Guard Armory. Price, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8 Carbon High School haskcthall vs. Grand Junction, CHS gymnasium, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10 Sunday, Dec. 5 Special satellite fireside for youth and young adults of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, subject ', emphasis Hill be morality, broadcast live on Channel 5, at 7 p.m. Stakes throughout county Hill hold special firesides. Cheek h ith I.DS leaders for times and locations. K8L-TV- Cnrhuu High School haskcthall vs. Fruila, CHS gymnasium, 7:30 p.m. College of Eastern Utah nu n's basketball vs. Western Wy oming. National Guard Armory , Price, 7:30 p.m. Utah Jazz vs. lavs Angeles Laki-isPalarc. Salt Dike City $1.50 - $30 Call , , 7 30 pm. . NEW SUNDAY HOURS Ascension Lutheran Church Announces that beginning SUNDAY, Dec. 5th Sunday School will be at 8:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship will be at 9:30 a.m. The church is located at 77 South Sixth East, Price, Utah We in Sun community calendar was difficult for them to come over and work a lot. There was a demand, 3, 1982 the grooves are a Christ-Minde- d Congregation Community-Oriente- d For further information call The Rev. Donald R. Almy 637-415- 4 Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast Geffen Records Joni Mitchell, once the willowy and frail who captured the heart and imagination of the music industry in the early Seventies has reached middle age (39 to be precise). With Wild Things Run Fast, Joni Mitchell shows us an older, more sophisticated who is still willowy and frail. Its unfortunate that this record has to stand against Court and Spark is more musically engaging, Hejira, more lyrically intriguing, and Blue has more simplistic earlier classics: Court and Spark, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, and Hejira. On its own, Wild Things Blue, Its hard to imagine anyone not liking Joni Mitchell and her music (an occasional perhaps). Her songs about life and love, and the fear of love are on such a personal level that one almost has to listen to them while wearing headphones. Wild Things Run Fast may not be the very best album of Joni Mitchells, but it certainly deserves its place among the best that has come out in recent mass-murdere- singer-songwrit- er Mitchells Mid-Wee- k charm. er singer-songwrit- This is the Advent Season, a time of preparation for the celebration of the Birth Jesus Christ Advent Services are being held December 8 & 15 at 7:30 p.m. A Pastor's Class entitled "Forgiveness" follows. of Run Fast is a great album full of musical insights about love, reminiscing and growing old. 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