Show ’ IT rrTW'UT ' w wwww'y TWW! " Tha Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday Juty 6 1998 —Pag ONE BIG HAPPY s 11 Hidden song showcases Gary Allan’s independence NASHVILLE Tenn (AP) — If you wait 1:02 """rf— after Gay Allan's CD “It Would Be You apparently hat finished you’ll hear a mournful acoustic guitar kick off the album's most striking song 1 rX MEANT MEANT ID CAJL1 ri HE ID NOTE wsr oar back NCEK9 mom ? uao NIK 0W98CM MET in SO SOW! 1 I FEEL MFUU MOOT NOT semNO back is H0uuok! HWefcMETWltoTDeAU HH FMSI OUR RIEL IN MUTER MULT IS MUT SUMMER QUIT CONES illustrated urm a PHOTO FROM MILAN ! He sold the construction company when he was offered a Nashville record deal about five years ago only to have the deal collapse He sold cars to make ends meet and kept plugging away in the clubs Overtures from Nashville scouts convinced him that he should give the town another try and he traveled to Music City and recorded four songs in ' 1996 A bidding war ensued Allan asked two questions ld ALBUM mmicitr&MEMiuTMo me nncMo x neka 6ENT constnictioo company For much of his 20s Allan toiled on construction sites during the day and played clubs at night He got married had three daughters and got divorced “Judgement Day the unlisted 12th selection is about the murder of an elderly store owner by three ' young men m a small town The angry lyrics written by Allen Shtmblin aren’t what you're likely to hear on the country music hit parade which is peppered with harmless peppy ditties or bombastic love ballads The Allan from Long Beach Calif his music on his new album In to a brings message "Judgement Day" he sings about how parents today are raising children who don't have many val- - CATHY TM fiMM X WNWT CAUO OtnPtHETDOK THE KIDS CMPMfr SR? SHE ME ME OWPSIft! NOMINEE! i of all the interested record executives: What did they warn him to change and bow fast would they release an album? Shelia Shipley Biddy of Decca had the right Allan says his record company Decca didn’t want the song on die album They compromised by adding it on as a hidden track that’s not terribly hard answers: "nodunc" and "immediately" Allan’s debut album "Used Heart for Sale" sold more than 230000 and won favorable reviews "Judgement Day" tested Biddy’s pledge of artistic Elsewhere on Allan’s second album are songs freedom of drinking and cheating like The hidden-trac- k compromise seems to be workthe new single "No Man in His Wrong Heart" is The tune getting some airplay Decca recentThere's a fair number of traditional love songs too ing: of the song to radio stations so singles shipped ly The first single was "It Would Be You” a top 10 it won’t have to find the those who want to about die temptations BEETUE BAILEY play hiL hidden track But Decca will not promote the single "If we go out and try to ram it up the charts then it seems negative like Decca is trying to capitalize "I find I walk a fine line getting material that's true to my heart and also works in the commercial machine” he “U he Allan’s music is sturdy barroom honky-ton- k learned from his father Harley Herzberg a musician who started bringing his son to performances when he was a toddler The early musical education of Allan born Gary on these shootings that are happening" said Dacca's Rick Baumgartner who promotes Allan’s records to radio stations "If the song sparks some discussion and changes some attitudes I think it will accomplish what Gary had in Allan Herzberg centered on the music of Ernest Tubb Merle Haggard Buck Owens Willie Nelson Elsewhere in country music CHECK IT OUT: Dead Reckoning Records has er reissued two great old albums by Kevin Welch: "Kevin Welch” and "Western Beat" AWARDS: Three country music books are up to win a prestigious Ralph J Gleason Music Book Award They are Bruce Feiler’s "Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks Wynonna Judd Wade Hayes and Marty Robbins Allan was good enough to merit an offer of a recording contract from AftM Records when he was 13 His father refused to n the contract telling Allan he couldn’t justify committing him to contract at such an early age a seven-ye"And he said I had a lot left to learn that I still imitated people" Allan said "And in hindnght I think he was right I imitated Merle Haggard and I singer-songwrit- co-sig- HAGAR THE HORRIBLE mind" ar and the Changing Face of Nashville" Rosetta Wills' "The King of Western Swing: Bob Wills Remembered" and "Rose: The Life and Career of Rose Maddox" by Rose Maddox and Joony White-sid- e Twelve books are nominated in all three will imitated George Jones" At the time he considered it a bitter setback For five years he played clubs only sparingly After graduating from high school he saved a hitch in the Army and then poured his energy into starting a win Names in the news Brinkley’s a mom NEW YORK (AP) — The uptown girl is a mom again ' PEANUTS US House of Representatives to run for that office Buffet and Gates talk to students Coppola wins OMAHA Neb (AP) — Warren Buffett and Bill Gala talked to business school students about well die kinds of things biUjonj judgmenl Supermodel LOSANGE-LE- Brink- - L forth jleyi 'a baby'girl early Thursday publi- ’i Christie S (AIJ) Francis 'FoM Coppola won a million $20 judgment from a cist Fran Curtis tires discustrrThe iMaml Chewing gum Death said that decided Sailor Lee Brinkley Cook jury Warner Bros 7 12 ounces weighed pounds when she was bora at 12:14 am at an undisclosed location in New York The proud papa is architect Peter Cook Brinkley 43 has a son Jack with Richard Thubman and a daughter Alexa Ray 12 from ha marriage to piano man Billy Joel nd Joel penned the hit song "Uptown Girl " while he and Brinkley were together: Holland denies cold feet LINCOLN Neb (AP) — Miss America 1997 Tara Dawn Holland says gossip that ha wedding to US Rep Jon Christensen of Nebraska is off is merely a FOXTROT rumor: S SURE HoPC ic on fixes THAT WATER Soon MAM I VNMA1RY fmtmcn THC° Star MM MlSt? i jt REAL LIFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME "No cold feet no questions" said Holland who said plans for the Nov 21 wedding are still on track "If they know us they know that's not even a question" The wedding which will be in her hometown of Mobile Ala will be a small and private one for family and close mends Exactly what they’ll be doing afterward isn’t clear however since Christensen lost his bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in May He had given up Ids seal in the Win stole his screen- play idea for a live-acti- sion ver- on of "Pinocchia" The studio acted with fraud and malice in claiming it owned the screenplay jurors found Thurs- day in awarding the compensatory damages “The jury found that Warner Bros interfered with his project and stopped him from making a film we all should have been allowed to see' said Coppola lawyer Robert Chapman Coppola testified tearfully dur- ing the trial that the studio thwarted his lifelong dream of making a feature-lengt-h “Pinoc-chk”fil- m He said Warner Bros threatened to sue any studio that tried to produce the movie He contended the studio struck a secret deal in 1991 with his col- laborator Mauro Borelli and then used the agreement to claim exclusive rights to the project which it eventually dropped Barbara Brogliatti a Warner Bros spokeswoman said the studio retained rights to the project even though Coppola laminated his deal 30R COPY 1 mused Their remarks were filmed for a PBS special and will be featured in Fortune magazine’s July 20 issue the Omaha World-Hera- ld reported Thursday Buffett also predicted that d Berkshire Hath— h which favors away a such as soft standbys drinks and Gillette razors — will Omaha-base- low-tec- Coca-Col- survive king after his death He told the students hack i May dial upon his death investors will be sent a letter out fett said at bridge you have ho gueu When com- and a dub tuff ia the dummy peting against an opposing pre01998 by NEA Mb Everyone makes mistakes — empt you bid on the assumption has six seven or high-caNwth especially me One fights to that partner avoid analytical errors but there points So with 19 points it AKQS V AQ9 is a limit to the amount of time is automatic to raise three spades KISS one can dedicate to that task to four: You might not make it However there is less excuse far but you must bid on If partna advances with three bidding blanders True not everyone sea things in the same hearts you do have a problem light hut I saw two quiz answers But it would probably be best to recently that caused a real mix of raise to four hearts emotions all had Suppose this it the layout Here’s the first Look at the Against four spades West will 9791 V 149 North hand West on your right probably lead the dub king: East AQ 7 opens three dubs You make a will switch to a diamond or n 979 takeout double Afta East passes The simplest line is to trump diaand for drew 3 a three Vulnerable: Neither try your partner replies (a) tramps hearts or (b) three spades What mond split But whin you see the Dealer Vest would you da if anything? 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