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Believe me CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

Hayes, Warwick in top form

Incidentally, the Champ will take-on one more big fight because he is in need of “bread." Also, he will star in the remake of the flick, “The Waterfront.” 0. J. Simpson, football ‘great’ now turned actor latest pic “Capricorn” which is due for release in October will co-star with Telly Savalas and Karen Black. The film concerns a phoney space shot to Mara... George Landers, one of Naptown’s most popular sportsmen and Yours Truly, are currently making plans to invade Louisville, Ky., and other parts south in behalf of the Womack Enterprises. The annual trip will be mostly business. However, we will have time for other happenings too (smile)... Believe Me! IN CLOSING, we leave these lines to live by:-Speaking of some old dudes who put-out much “bread” to the young chicks thinks he has a good thing going for him is dead wrong in the long-run. The young ones are only interested in the ‘loot’ not him. Sometimes, they (the queens) drop him and the money too, when some other younger cat is involved...And “That’s The Black Truth For This Week!"... Believe Me!

‘Man-Woman’ disproves critics’ ‘Odd Couple’ tab

By LYNN FORD

No “Roots” reruns

for a while: ABC

“Welcome Back, Kotter” and “What’s Happening!!!” reruns may scan screens over during the warmer months, but “Roots” reruns won’t be around for a while. ABC spokesmen said Monday they haven’t considered airing reruns of the eight-part adaptation of a novel by Alex Haley until some 18 months from now.

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Love ballads, a touch of disco and a lot of class. That’s the best way to describe Isacc Hayes and Dionne Warwick’s “A Man and A Woman” on the ABC-dis-tributed Hot Buttered Soul label. The two-record set, recorded “live” in Atlanta’s “Fabulous Fox” (an engagement from the pair’s recent national tour), features “Black Moses” and the top ballad vocalist of the ‘60’s and early 70’s in fine form as they ramble through some 20 cover versions of songs made famous by other artists, as well as their own material, sharply disproving critics’ “Odd Couple” remarks. The highly orchestrated set opens amid rousing applause with an upbeat version of “Unity”, a Gamble-Huff composition. Hayes’ and Miss Warwick’s vocal harmony on the opener leaves a little to be desired. It can be excused, though, as “Unity” is only the opener. “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself’, an early Warwick hit features much better vocal treatment. The song also helps introduce

the next stop on the itinerary. But for those few minutes, Hayes was again the “Black Moses” we knew in the “Shaft”

era.

Before the tour, critics and fans alike considered Hayes and Miss Warwick an unlikely combination, citing “The Man’s flambuoyancy as opposed to Miss Warwick’s modest middle-of-the-road style. The MOR group is also where her biggest following lies. Hayes compensated for the “style difference” by donning the tux and dipping deep into his pot of mellow material. Even in his days with Stax Records, Hayes was known for his “rap”. He even recorded a series called “Ike’s Rap”, divided them into parts and mixed them into his Ips. (Keep

in mind, Ike’s decline after Stax’ folding is where Barry White’s upward trend began). Most of the selections in “A Man and A Woman” are performed in a MOR style, thanks to the influence of Miss Warwick's production. The album co-produced by Hayes and Miss Warwick, also excels in the engineering category. There’s just enough brass, strings, background vocal and public address system depth and “echol” for good “presence”. In other words, unlike other “live” Ips, this one “sounds live”. The stereo separation also adds to the quality. The album could be a big seller with the right airplay, namely “Come Live With Me”, “Feelings”, and “Solid Gold” medley and “Chocolate Chip”.

THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER pAGE n SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1977

THE SCREENING ROOM

McCoo-Davis to host ‘Midnight Special’

U.S. FUNK MOB COMING: If you hear any noise in the Expo Center Saturday, it’s just George Clinton and the boys [Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy’s Rubber Band] in concert. Saturday’s 8 p.m. landing of the “Mothership Connection” is part of a near 6-month long “P-Funk Earth Tour” which has played to SRO houses across the country.

HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING-

‘Sparkle’ heads double hi II this

Disk companies issue

week Walker

spring single lineup

Hayes’ new image. “Black Moses”, “Chocolate Chip",

“Juicy Fruit Disco Freak”, or whatever you wish, recently shed his “chain rags” for “glad rage”. Namely, tuxedos. The tune is one of the mellower ones from the Bacharach-David collection, and the Hayes-War-wick treatment w a r r e n t s

By LYNN FORD Record companies recently started issuing the spring lineup of singles which will probably hit paydirt within a few months. The first crop of new releases

“Roots”, have been signed to appear in the Academy Awards Show telecast March 28.

storming applause. Preude to

foUa

events to follow.

The last notes of Paul McCartney’s “My Love” were echoing through “The Fox" when the “Man and the Woman” offered a slightly confusing medley of Hayes’ cover of Glen Campbell’s “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” and Miss Warwick’s “I Say A Little

Prayer”.

An unlikely pair? Seemingly so until the latter stages of the song when it becomes obvious the medley is depicting a breakup between two lovers with Miss Warwick “saying a little prayer” for Hayes who is “on the way to Phoenix”. The two songs, complimented by a slow instrumental background also mix with the lines: “By the time I get to Phoenix, she’ll be rising”’ and “In the morning when I wake. I say a little prayer for you”. Skip Scarborough’s (for Earth, Wind and Fire) “Can’t Hide Love” starts and ends with Miss Warwick s e x i 1 y whining the chorus of Donna Summer’s “Love To Love You Baby”. Credit her with fair treatment on this one. Now it’s “Big Ike’s turn at the helm as he woos Miss Warwick with his mellow “Come Live With Me". In a midnight blue tux, Hayes talks about the ladies “gettin’ hip to his game” amid screams from the crowd, and delivers what this writer must term his best vocal performance in the album. Miss Warwick gets her like in with “...tell the truth, baby", amid more audience

approval.

Hayes and Miss Warwick treat the audience to what could be termed a “Solid Gold Hit Revue” with a 14-minute-plus medley of such songs as “Have You Never Been Mellow”, “Love Will Keep Us Together”, “The Way I Want To Touch You”, “I Love Music”, “This Will Be", “That’s The Way (I Like It)” and “Get Down Tonight", which starts off along the “get down, get down...” lines of Kool and the Gang’s “Jungle Boogie”. Needless to say, although the medley fails to f 1 o w smoothly in spots, it was a hit. with the crowd.

TAVARES ‘Whodunit”, group’s newest

for the month include: “I Say a Little Prayer”/“By The Time I Get To Phoenix” (medley) b/w “That’s The Way (I Like It)” and “Get Down Tonight” (med-ley-ISACC HAYES and DIONNE WARWICK (Hot Buttered Soul/ABC); “Your Love”-MA-RILYN McCOO and BILLY DAVIS JR. (ABC); “Super Band”-KOOL AND THE GANG (Delite/New York Sound); “Hot To Trot”-WILD CHERRY (Epic/Sweet City) and “That’s What It’s All About’’-BRICK (Bang). Other chartbound releases are: “On Your Face (edited version)”- EARTH, WIND AND FIRE (Columbia); “Who-dunit”-TAVARES (Capitol); “Family Again”-SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE (Epic); “Show You The Way To Go”-the JACKSONS (Epic) and “Sing”-TONY ORLANDO and DAWN (Elektra/Asylum).

THE SPINNERS and Atlantic Records recently released “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, the group's final recorded product featuring former lead singer PHILIPPE WYNNE. The Ip contains an eight-minute-plus version of the new single “You’re Throwing A Good Love Away” and eight other songs, featuring, once again, the production of Thom Bell. RIAA recently awarded the group with gold platters for the single, “Rubberband Man”, and the Ip from which it was culled, “Happiness Is Being With The Spinners”.

Another medley, “Feelings” and “My Eyes Adored You” fared much better. The vocals are superb, as well as the accentuated orchestration. “Feelings”, this writer feels, is the better of the two. The combination probably would have made a better choice for single release than “Fhoenix"/“Say A Little Prayer *. Miss Warwick’s “Once You Hit The Road”, featuring the backup vocals of former Honey Cone leader and Sonny Bono backup Darlene Love and sister DeDe Warwick, has enough power to recall the intensity and tightness of the studio venion. It’s fun to look bad: and remember. For Hayes and the crowd too, it must have been even more fun. Hayes looked back to 1975 for over 10-minutesd with an “extra up-tempo” version of the ego-tripping “Chocolate Chip”. The fans enjoyed his Tm a mean sex machine" and “...you ain’t never had a nigger like me” (The Isacc Hayes Movements rythym was exceptional) and wanted more. So they were offered a slight reprise-but Hayes looked at his watch and saw it was time to get ready for

The 16th annual Ohio Valley KOOL Jazz Festival (July 22-23 in Riverfron Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio lineup boasts top talent in ARETHA FRANKLIN, LOU RAWLS, THE SYLVERS, EMOTIONS, DRAMATICS and MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY (July 22) and NATALIE COLE, WILD CHERRY, JOHNNIE TAYLOR, CHUCK MANGIONE, TAVARES, ALBERT KING and JIMMIE WALKER (July 23). See story elsewhere in this week’s entertainment section for more information.

JOHN AMOS doing well for ABC-TV in a co-starring role in the “Future Cop” detective series. * • * OOPS!!!: In last week’s

‘Here’s What’s Happening”,

' 7n MINNIE

the segment oh MINNIE RIPPERTON’s new “Stay In Love” Ip was misleadingly written to say the project was produced by STEVIE WON-

DER.

Miss Riperton’s initial Epic Ip, “The Perfect Angel” (including the smash “Lovin’ You”) featured two selections penned by Wonder. “Stay In Love” was produced by FREDDIE PERREN for Grand Slam Productions. , Perron’s production was also responsible for much of THE SYLVERS’ recent success.

MUHAMMAD ALI and BEN VEREEN, who is coming off a successful role in the television adaptation of ALEX HALEY’S

While on the subject of “Roots", this writer recently overheard a conversation: “Know \Wiy Idi Amin’s going so ‘crazy’ over there? (in Uganda) He probably watched ‘Roots’!!!”

And That’s What’s Happening!!!

All the glitter and drive of the rock-and-roll revolution of the 1950’s comes dramatically to the screen in “Sparkle,” the story of the rise of three black female singers who rise from ghetto life to superstardom, now showing as a co-feature with “Vigilante Force”, starring Kris Kristofferson, at the Walker Theatre, 607 Indiana Avenue. Irene Cara, in the title role, Lonnette McKee and Dwan Smith star as three sisters who rise to superstardom on the rock and roll scene. Music for the Warner Brothers Pictures release is com-

posed by Curtis Mayfield and performed by Aretha Franklin on Atlantic Records. Numbers included in the film and soundtrack Ip are hit singles “Hooked On Your Love” b/w “Jump”, “Something He Can Feel” and the new hit, “Look Into Your Heart”. See advertisement elsewhere in this section for showtimes.

‘50’s cartoons to be topic of Saturday’s

IMA kiddie matinee

A film matinee for children will be presented 3:30 p.m. Saturday in IndianapolisMuseum of Art’s DeBoest Lecture Hall. The matinee, “Animated Films of the 50’s”, will feature

By LYNN FORD MARILYN MCCOO and - BILLY DAVIS JR. will gain valuable experience as regards hosting television shows when they host ‘The Midnight - Special’, 1 a.m. Friday-WR-TV-6. The talented Fifth Dimension refugees will perform the gold single ‘You Don’t Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)’, while THELMA HOUSTON sings ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’. Others appearing include MAFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND and FLEETWOOD MAC. Marilyn and Billy are slated to host their own weekly variety series, beginning as a summer replacement later this season. Weekend television highlights include: -ThursdayEARL ‘FATHA’ HINES on ‘The Mike Douglas Show’, 4:30 p.m.-WRTV-6. Comedian FRANKLIN AJAYE on ‘Dinah!’, 4’;30 p.m. WISH-8. GLADYS KNIGHT on ‘Celebrity Sweepstakes’, 7:30 p.m. WTHR 13. LAWRENCE-HILTON JACOBS and JOHN TRAVOLTA on ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’, 8 p.m. WTHR-13. Former heavyweight boxing champion and now top conten-

such characters as McGoo and the McBoing Boings. The museum plans added matinees with dates to be announced. A .25 donation will be requested at the door.

der to the crown, GEORGE FOREMAN dons the gloves to face the tough challenge of third-ranked JIMMY YOUNG in the main event of a three - bout TV card, ‘live’ from San Juan, Puerto Rico, 8:30 p.m.--WTHR-13. Preliminary matches feature World Junior Lightweight Champion Alfredo Escalera defending against - Ronnie McGarvey, and heavy- ( weight Larry Holmes versus an opponent to be named. Howard Cosell describes the action. FridaySCOEY MITCHELL, SUGAR RAY ROBINSON and NIPSEY RUSSELLin Barefoot In The Park’ on ‘Love, American Style’, 10:30 a.m.-WTTV 4. THE SYLVERSperform the recently RIAA gold awarded Hot Line’ and ‘Dinah!’, 4:30 p.m.- WISH-8. JIMMY WALKER on ‘Hollywood Squares’, 7:30 p.m.-WRTV-6. After learning son Lament (DEMOND WILSON) has tic kets to a B.B.KING concert, Fred (REDD FOXX(makes an attempt to make some of his musical material available to the star blues guitarist on ‘Sanford and Son’, 8 p.m.-WR-TV-6. The show also may be seen on 6 weekdays. SCATMAN CROTHERS, - DELLA REESE on ‘Chico and the Man’, 8:30 p.m.- WRTV-6. -SaturdayDICK CLARK plays host to the best in music Jn American Bandstand’, 12:30 p.m. WTHR13. Championship Wrestling, 2 p.m. and 1 a.m.-WTTV-4. Sam Menacker reports.

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