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Show - 'Worst7 By BRYAN GRAY Young Americans Writer The Worst That Could Happen" has turned into the best record that could happen for the Brooklyn Bridge, an 11 - member group in New by a former sol- dier. The anatomy cf this record and group started several years ago when Tom Sullivan, who had formed the first rock n roll group in the history of West Point Academy, finished his military obligation and started band forming a seven-piec- e (including organist Carolyn Wood, the only woman in the group). During the first audition, th group signed up four other vocalists. The Bridge then kicked off their career at the Cheetah Club in New York where it set a new attendance record. The group was later invited to play at the world premiere of Barbra Streisands Funny Girl! and it later garnered rave reviews in concerts with such stars as the Beach Boys , and Four Tops. With an outstanding reputation as performers, the Brooklyn Bridge now needed a hit record and whats a better gamble than a song by Jim Webb, the overnight sensation in the songwriting field with DESERET NEWS, The Best To Happen mals DISC N' DAT such hits as By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Up, Up, And Away and MacArthur Park? York started West Point Is Webb had barely completed The Worst That writing Could when the Happen Brooklyn Bridge recorded it. The record shot to top spot in New then spread York, around the country to Salt Lake where KNAK and KCPX both spotlighted it. The groups recent appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show marked the first time since the Beatles that a group has performed on the Sullivan show without a national number one record. And if thats The Worst That Could Happen" to The Brooklyn Bridge, who knows what lies ahead? The fastest-sellinalbum in Salt Lake is he new Spirit album. Salt Lake fans have adopted Spirit; a'though the group is essentially unknown in most other areas of the country, it has had two albums and a number one record in SLC. Spirits fourth appearance at the Terrace will probably come in February or March look for another LYME, Inc., presentation. A new group which may sell a bundle of albums during 1969 is a San Francisco blues-gospgroup called Mother first Earth. - The groups album, Living With The Ani best-sellin- g s has brought from most adult music critics, and has been compared favorably with the old soulful sound of Mahalia Jack-son- . rave-review- Robb Baker, a critic writing in the Chicago Tribune, wrote, In a day when pup music as good as it has become itself increasingly caught up in imitating itself, the Mother Earth has a special It is the first significance: Of all white gospel group finds ... rvTN, ly-u- "V- Friday, January 10, 1969 the heralded San Fiancisco groups, only Jams Joplins old B:g Brother and the Holding Company has come up with anything as impassive as this and then only in their second album. Last year, this column premiered a singer the Crazy World of Arthur Brown about six months before his Fire hit the Top Ten. This year, well take a gamble vith Mercury Records new group, Mother Earth. TOP TEN RECORDS LOCALLY NATIONALLY (KCPX) (Billboard) 1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine Marvin Gaye 2. Im Gonna Make You Love Me Supremos and Temptations Wichita 3. Lineman Glen Campbell 4. Soulful Strut Young Holt Unlimited. 5. Hooked On A Feeling B. J. Thomas 6. Cloud Nine Tempta- tions For Once In My Life Stevie Wonder 8. Crimson And Clover Tommy James and 7. Shondells 9. Love Child Diana Ross and Supremes 10. I Love How You Love Me Bobby Vinton ! 1. I Heard The G apevine It Through Marvin Gaye 2. The Worst Happen That Could Brooklyn Bridge 3. Im Gonna Make You Love Me Supremes and Temptations 4. I Started A Joke Bee Gees And Clover Crimson Tommy James and Shondells 6. For Once In My Life 5. Stevie Wonder 7. Hooked On A Feeling B. J. Thomas 8. Lo Mucho Que Te Qui-er- o Rene and Rene 9. I Love How You Love Me Bobby Vinton 10. Goin Up The Country Canned Heat yBE3m3 VMUB SPBGMGULAR PORTABLE COLOR TV CONSOLE STEREO 50 BIG SCREEN COLOR TV i look what Bobbie Brooks yodeled up . . . cotton lederbosen britches! PORTABLE TV 95 K flv lf Folksy Bavarian mood captured in a strappy "H" front yearns ts and for the highest peak in dashing all cotton fun-prin- solids. PORTABLE Provincial prirt ric rac trim available in versatile navy or daz- zling bright yellow, 5rl 3 $0 STEREO Flora! print ric rac trim in light blue, Pin dot ric rac trim in navy or red, 5-Care-fre- e denim in solid navy, $0 5-- 13 13 5-- 13 $0 $7 mix fn match with your favorite shirt found in The Loft AUTOMATIC THE lOFT-- ali Horn ' . PHONOGRAPH SALT LAKE OGDEN COTTONWOOD NO MONEY DOW- N- THREE YEARS TO PAY! TU Poril AppliancM Downtown and Cettorwvnd pi mow, ivwm ; V iMhJMi A- um UUKL'M.-Bjjpwaim- n, miiliuinuimiijiwn wnwnmi. ' |