Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 40, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 October 1981 — Page 6

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Music changes, not Boys

c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK - The Oak Ridge Boys bounded up to the stage so many times to accept so many awards on last week’s Country Music Awards telecast that one suspected they must have been following a rigid jogging regimen in preparation. Like most and possibly all music-industry awards shows, the Country Music Awards are more a confirmation of commercial success than a tribute to artistic excellence, and because the Oak Ridge Boys enjoyed the most spectacular country-to-pop crossover success of the year with their No. 1 hit, “Elvira,” the awards they received couldn't have come as much of a surprise. But the Oak Ridge Boys are a singular phenomenon, a "crossover act” that has broken several barriers. In pop terminology, an artist or group “crosses over” by moving from one clearly defined market into another, more lucrative one usually from country or jazz or rhythm-and-blues to pop. The Oak Ridge Boys started as a gospel quartet, crossed over into the country field, and finally crossed over again, this time into the pop mainstream. Nevertheless, Duane Allen, who has been a member of the quartet for 16 years, maintained recently that the term "crossover” wasn’t really accurate as far as the Oat Ridge Boys were concerned. “Our mus c hasn’t changed," he said, “it’s just that we keep looking for material that will be more widely accepted. I don’t think we've crossed over from one audience to another, I think we’ve held on to our original audience and built on that base. We're not a crossover, we’re a spillover. ” Whether they have crossed or spilled, the Oak Ridge Boys have come a long way. Their roots date back to the 19405, when a gospel group called the Country Cut Ups became so popular with workers at the United States government’s first atomic installation, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., that they renamed themselves the Oak Ridge Quartet. That group disbanded in the early 50s, and four teen-agers from Knoxville, Tenn., purchased the right to use the name, which they changed a few years later to the Oak

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Ridge Boys. After a few personnel changes, the group became one of the most popular white gospel quartets. “During the early 705,” Duane Allen recalled, “we won every award available to a male gospel group. And we began to see at that time just what the restrictions were on people who sang that kind of music. There really aren’t enough supporters of gospel music to help you pay your bills. We knew from seeing other groups try to make country or pop records that once you try it, the people who promote gospel concerts and distribute gospel records drop you like a hot potato. But we found out that the people who buy the records are more loyal than that. Several disk jockeys told us they began playing our first country records because gospel fans called up and just wanted to hear the newest record by the Oak Ridge Boys, whether it was gospel or country or pop.” This listener has trouble discerning lingering gospel influences in slickly produced pop records like the Oak Ridge

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Boys’ huge hit “Elvira,” but Allen insisted that the group still sings in a recognizable white gospel style. “For one thing,” he said, “we still go for those gospel endings. A gospel ending requires what we call ‘power harmony,’ which means we sing it high, hard and loud. In general, gospel quartet singing is more aggressive than country music or pop, and I have had to learn how to relax and not force a song.” When pressed, Allen admitted that the group was “trying to zero in on the mainstream. We’re expanding and trying not to get stuck singing just one kind of music. But don’t forget, the four of us come from very different backgrounds. One of us, Joe Bonsall, is from Philadelphia, and used to dance on American Bandstand. He has a sort of rock-and-roll or rhythm-and-blues influence that we haven’t even started to use yet. We can go in a lot of directions, but we do insist on one thing. All our songs have to be positive in nature. They have to be happy songs that lend themselves to the quality of our voices. And that’s a result of our gospel background for sure.”

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People in the news Haig, Cronkite top best-dressed

CHICAGO (AP) President Reagan should consult with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. for advice every morning about how to dress, says the head of a clothiers’ union. Haig was called the “natty negotiator” by Alfonso Caprio, president of the Custom Tailors Guild of America, which announced Wednesday its annual list of the 10 bestdressed men in America. Haig, called the best-dressed statesman, “has given a needed shot-in-the-arm to our men’s clothing industry abroad,” said Caprio, 51, who started in the tailoring trade as a youth in Italy. Caprio speaks little English, but his son, Vincenzo, the guild’s executive vice president, served as interpreter. The union picks one winner in each of 10 categories. Newsman Walter Cronkite won in the “All-American” category, Don Rickies won in the “Comedy” slot, and the choices for best-dressed man in movies, music and dance were, respectively, actor John Travolta, singer Barry Manilow and ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Tony Dorsett, a football player for the Dallas Cowboys, won in the sports category; Carl Blonn, an industrial parts manufacturer, was named in the industry category; and Vit Pascucci, head of Leßlanc Corp., of Kenosha, Wis., was named in the business division. • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A San Francisco church that venerates jazz saxophonist John Coltrane as an “anointed figure” has been slapped with a $7.5 million lawsuit by his widow, who claims the church is illegally using his name. Alice Coltrane said the One Mind Temple Evolutionary Transitional Church of Christ was using her husband’s name “without family sanction” and was “misrepresenting us and infringing on copyright laws.” The suit, filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, also seeks to force the church to “stop associating his name with its religion,” Mrs. Coltrane said in a teleppone interview. One Mind Temple’s belief in Coltrane “is not so much a true belief as it is exploitation,” she said. Coltrane, one of the most influential and innovative sax players, died in 1967 at age 40. He played in Dizzy Gillespie’s band in the 1950 s and was a frequent soloist with the Miles Davis quintet from 1955 to 1960. Coltrane, who formed his own quartet in 1960, is best known for his albums “My Favorite Things” and “Love Supreme.” One of several religious groups that solicit donations at San Francisco International Airport, One Mind Temple considers Coltrane an “anointed figure,” • WASHINGTON (AP) Ted Turner, the Atlanta entrepreneur who started his own cable television network, today characterized entertainment on the three major networks as “80 percent trash” and suggested Congress set standards to limit violence on television. Television and movies have “definitely been the cause of increased violence in our society,” Turner, head of Cable News Network, told a House subcommittee. Executives of the major networks responded that efforts were being made to cut gratuitous violence. They said, however, that removing all violence from television would not only paint a false picture of the world but also result in the elimination of such award-winning programs as “Hill Street Blues,” “MASH” and “Roots.” Turner, contending that television ptoses a greater danger than cigarettes, suggested that television networks should “have to run a disclaimer every hour warning that too much television can be dangerous to your mental health.” Although he said it was “abhorrent to me that Congress would have to pass standards for programs,” he told the panel, “I’d rather have you guys set the standards than those guys (television executives).” The testimony came as the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications, consumer protection and finance opened a hearing on television violence.

Broadway Beat Sophia's just a one-man woman, she says

By JOEY SASSO Sophia Loren says her marriage to Carlo Ponti is stronger than ever, despite persistent rumors that she is having an affair with a French doctor. “It is true that I am a very passionate woman, but I have only one man, my husband.” Sophia says, “I have no desire for others. You only hunt if something is missing, you don’t fool around for the fun of it,” she explains. “If you do, you destroy what is important in your life.” Sophia, who was 47 on Sunday,and Carlo, 68, have been married for 24 years. They have two young boys and a lavish new home in California. Sophia has no doubts about her devotion to her husband, who is reportedly suffering from diabetes. “I am quite positive in these things now,” she says. “What is one moment of pleasure when you may regret it later? Even when I have been tempted I thought it over very, very carefully - and decided it wasn’t worth it. I always thought about what would happen afterwards. If I had believed that afterwards I would be happy, I would have done it - and stayed with the other man,” Sophia claims. “Of course there are women who think only of the moment, but that is not what matters for me. “Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe in ten years’ time I will see that because I believe a woman should have experiences in life, all kinds of experiences. But if I have one, it has to be forever. It is like that with my husband. With him I have found everything. I don’t need to try someone else.” Dolly Parton may lose thousands of loyal fans because of her role as a brothel madam in her new film, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.” But country’s queen of glamor and glitter says that won’t stop her from doing the film, which she promises will be a sexy and very entertaining, spicy movie. “I’m not going to miss my chance

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BARRY MANILOW: He wears the clothes

To hear Barry Bostwick tell it, his new movie project, “Megaforce,” may turn out to be not so much an “actionadventure” film, as a trade show for the international weapons industry. “We use high technology weapons of the most advanced design,” the actor said. He will portray the leader of a “totally secret, totally expendable” 60-man strike force assembled from among the top soldiers of free-world nations to wage covert war on the forces of Communism and “save countries” around the world. Bostwick credited the movie’s director, Hal Needham, with coming up with some weapons so advanced that they haven’t been seen yet. “They’re still on the drawing board, but they will be in use by the time the movie is out or a year later,” he said. Partly for this reason, he added, and partly because the movie’s strike force “is very close to covert CIA strike forces still in existence,” the Pentagon “tried to stop the movie” by withholding 40 Army tanks needed for the bigger battle scenes. And how did the “Megaforce” force get the tanks? “Coercion,” Bostwick said, asserting that the producers had threatened to accept an offer from South Africa and to use a script even less palatable to the Pentagon. That’s not the Pentagon version, but it confirmed that “Megaforce” would get its tanks. Will it be safe to use weapons that really work, such as motorcycles equipped with actual machine guns and rockets? “I don’t know," Bostwick said. “We haven't shot those scenes yet.” • NEW YORK James Cagney, wearing a Yankee cap, threw out the ceremonial first ball Wednesday night before the start of the second World Series game. There had been some controversy over the assignment for the veteran actor, who was the Yankees’ first choice to do the honors before the first game. But Joe DiMaggio threw out the ball for the op>ener, instead. Another p>art of the ceremonies was the arrival by air at the Stadium of three members of the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team. The last of the three landed with an American flag in hand as Robert Merrill sang the National Anthem. Sandy Koufax, the Hall of Famer who pitched for the Dodgers, is scheduled to throw out the first ball in Los Angeles before the third game Friday night.

to kiss Burt Reynolds,” the brassy blonde said. And she’s shocked her legions of fans by saying that Miss Mona, the brothel madam she plays in the film, isn’t a whole lot different from Dolly. “She was everything that I am, except that I’m not that kind of gal,” she says. *** IN THE WINGS: Farrah Fawcett and Priscilla Presley are being pitted against each other in the biggest Hollywood battle of the year. The two sexy superstars are the front runners for the leading role in “The Wild Woman Of The Jungle” as Tinseltown producers rush to cash in on the incredible box-office success of Bo Derek’s jungle epic “Tarzan The Ape Man.” Bo and her husband, director John Derek, raked in a mind-boggling $22 million in the first twol weeks the movie was in the theaters. And the lure of boxoffice gold like that is irresistible to film-makers who are lining up other jungle flicks. Dashing Prince Albert of Monaco has struck up an intimate friendship with actress Catherine Hicks, the blonde beauty who won an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe. It’s not the first time the handsome prince has been linked with a stunning American actress. Just ' a year ago he was romancing "That’s Incredible” star Cathy Lee Crosby. *** Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker have patched up their on-again, off-again romance and are set to move into a desert lovenest Glen is buying for them. "We’re definitely still together - it’s still very much one," says Glen. Tanya, too, squashes the rumors that things got so stormy between them that they had broken up for good. "I believe that if it works out for the rest of this year, then it will work forever,” she said. “We both know we love each other verymuch, and now we will try an engagement.”

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