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Lori Krupica

When I was only seventeen, I picked
up my mandolin
Had a dream and I held it tight, I
wished a wish
with all my might
All the world could hear my song
And I could see 'em come just to sing
along
Put a record out and then
Ya just hold your breath and count to
ten...

Danny Deardorff

Danny Deardorff and Marcus Joseph's
days of holding their breath look like
they're just about over. If anything
smacks of the old-fashioned overnight
success story, this one could, for
Deardorff & Joseph have been together
barely a year, and already the signs of
great success are taking focus. Only,
it's not exactly an overnight
success story.

Danny's story began at the age of 18
months. He was stricken with polio,
which despite numerous operations left
him paraplegic to grow up in a wheel
chair. But the spirit which is Danny
burned against momentous odds,
Danny very early finding his greatest
love: music. "I spent hours and hours
listening to the Beatles. Everything they
did," Danny muses, "I did. They really
made me feel good."

The next step for Danny was to
learn bass guitar, learning every Paul
McCartney riff he could, but it wasn't
until he picked up his first mandolin
that Danny Deardorff, singer-

songwriter, was born. "I found out
almost as soon as I started writing that
people liked my music." Danny recalls,
"I used to stay after lunch in the school
cafeteria, play for the kids and sing
my songs."

Then, I met my wife Joyce," Danny
continues; "She really loved my music
first time she heard it and decided to
dedicate herself to seeing that I got the
break she believed I deserved. It was
then we travelled to New York,
Chicago, San Francisco, and finally to
L.A., to the offices of Seals and Crofts.
I had gone there in hopes that possibly
Seals & Crofts would record some of
my stuff. There I auditioned for Garnie
Day, Marcia Day's daughter. Garnie
was the first person in the music
business to see the possibility of me
performing my own songs." Garnie
excitedly took her mother to hear
Danny. She, too, made a commitment.
Soon, the rest of the Day 5 people got
behind Danny, including Seals &
Crofts, their producer, Louie Shelton

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DEARDORFF & JOSEPH - UP MUSIC, SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR, AND A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN DOWN HERE

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and Joey Bogan, their engineer. All became quickly dedicated to making this young artist happen.

Danny talks about being crippled: "Yeh, I've been in this wheel chair all my life, and I've never played basketball or anything, but there's so much I have done, I've never really thought of myself as crippled...when little kids come up to me and ask 'What happened,' I say, 'I fell out of an airplane,' 'cause little kids don't understand if you tell them 'polio'."

"I'm a Baha'i (pronounced Ba-high), and we feel the bodies we live in are just shells anyway, and the real 'you' is perfect and has no handicaps..."

"I just wish there were more people like Joyce, Garnie, and Marcia to help people that were handicapped — to help anybody — maybe someone who's crippled inside."

"I guess that's why Deardorff & Joseph exists — to make people feel good — and to give them some

Lori Kmpica

Marcus, the quiet half of the duo, confides, "Maybe Danny and I can bring a little bit of heaven down here."

alternatives." Danny observes, "Music today seems so hedonistic, maybe that's why disco is so big right now, because people think there's nothing left to say. But that's silly, because there's a lot yet to say, and that's part of what we're about."

Marcus Joseph's story: Marcus laughingly says, "I decided to become a performer when I fell in love at the age of six, with Annette Funicello of the Mickey Mouse Club. I was raised

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"I just wish there were more people like my wife Joyce to help people that were handicapped — to help anybody — maybe someone who's crippled inside."

around the music business in Hollywood; what with my aunt, Marcia Day, being Seals & Crofts manager, and my family having a musical background, it seemed quite natural for me to go into the music business."

Marc shyly hides a grin; "For a long time, while I was learning to be musical, no one in my family knew about it, I kinda kept it to myself. They didn't even know I was into music until one night Garnie Day, my cousin, heard me at a friend's house. I felt that if I was going to make it, it would have to be on my own, not through some kind of favoritism — so that's why I kinda kept it quiet."

Marc played the vagabond at sixteen, by saving up money earned parking cars on the Sunset Strip, and travelled to Europe, followed by a hitchhiking trek across the United States. "I guess my family thought I was a rebel, but I really wasn't. There was just so much I felt I needed to experience — I'm glad I got the chance.

When I talk with sixteen- and seventeen-year-old kids, I remember how frightening it was growing up in the sixties. I was barely into my teens when two of my closest friends overdosed." Marc reflects on a concert from a few days back: "I was talking to one girl the other night, maybe thirteen or fourteen years old; she had been arrested for smoking a joint, and her father kicked her out of the house — she had nowhere else to go but the concert. And to me, that was very sad. To me that emphasizes the responsibility even more of someone in this business. A lot of times, listening to music or going to a concert is an escape, because of the turmoil of growing up. Unless they can get good entertainment with a positive direction, something to help them, these kids are just going to be fed the same stuff."

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"When I finally settled down, I became a writer at Dawnbreaker Music, Seals & Crofts' publishing company, and also went to studio engineering school. Marc smiles over at his partner. "It was at Dawnbreaker that I met Danny. When Danny first went on tour with Seals & Crofts, I went along to accompany Danny on guitar. Before we knew it, we were fast friends, sharing our music and our thoughts, and we sorta naturally drifted into writing together." With the beginning of their writing together, it became obvious to everyone that it was now Deardorff & Joseph.

While on tour, manager Garnie Day (left) and Marcus Joseph confer over breakfast, while Merle Dautrey looks on.

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Referring to the time he hitchhiked across the U.S. alone, Marc muses, "My family probably thought I was a rebel. But I really wasn't - it was just that I had a whole lot of things to experience."

Marc relates the way the duo ended up on Clive Davis' label Arista: "After our first tour, it was time to start deciding what would be the best record company for us. One night, soon after the tour, Garnie, our manager, stayed up all night reading Clive's new book, *Inside The Record Business*. Finishing the book just before dawn, she called her mother and exclaimed that if anyone had the insight to see what we were all about, Clive would." And Marc adds, "Thankfully, Clive did."

About where his inspiration comes from: "My music is not only a manifestation of my experiences and what I've observed, but also of my beliefs. And I know this is true of Danny also, that the Baha'i faith is the source of his inspiration."

Marc adds, "Just like Danny was saying, we believe there's so much to live for, and we want to share that with all these kids out there, and entertain them too. So many people are writing depressing lyrics these days. We as Baha'is, believe work is worship, so we would like to give people some alternatives to being miserable." Marc stops for a moment, looking very thoughtfully out the window, and adds, "Maybe," moving his hands expressively, "just maybe, we, Danny and I, can bring a little bit of heaven down here."

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SINGER/SONGWRITER
DAVID POMERANZ "GETS THE FEELING"
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN FOR HIT SONGS

David calls wife Thea a real inspiration, and refers to many of their experiences in his songs.

David Pomeranz's success story is one that many young songwriters experience every day only in their fantasies. "I was trying to get a record deal in 1970, so I walked into the A&R office at MCA with my guitar, played a few tunes and for the next 6 or 7 weeks it was a no-yes, no-yes situation and finally a yes one," explains David, looking more like a shaggy-haired college coffee-house singer than a successful pop stylist.

"On my very first album, *Time To Fly*, we oriented it mostly around jazz." He continues, "By a strange accident we were lucky enough to get Chick Corea. At the time however, I wasn't that familiar with his work and was a little skeptical. As it turned out, I was almost scared by his brilliance."

David began writing songs at age 17 and although his first professional exposure came from the MCA contract, he was managed for a short time by pop-singer Leslie Gore. "I was playing drums at this party." He laughs and continues, "My father was singing to this crazy band of drums, accordian and sax. Leslie Gore's father was there and although he was listening to this strange sound, I decided to approach him anyway. I asked him what I should do about my songs and he set up an appointment with Leslie and her brother, who was managing with her."

Now, with his own album on Arista Records and artists such as Barry Manilow, Phoebe Snow and Cliff Richards recording his tunes, David

still feels some frustration: "What really blows my mind more than anything is how singers seem to lose what I've intended as far as the emotion—it doesn't make me chill and that's what I want to put across."

When Barry Manilow recorded "Trying To Get The Feeling Again", there was a major disagreement between Clive Davis of Arista and David. Clive insisted upon using the original lyrics which he felt were more commercial. David wanted to use lyrics which he had re-written and felt were better. They used the original lyrics and the disagreement resulted in a major hit for Barry Manilow and success as well as a resolution for David: "I rolled the dice, took a risk and now I'm glad." He hesitates a moment and adds, "However, I wouldn't do it again. Now I can say, you've got to do it my way and I have to take the risk of having them say no."

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Regarding his EST experiences, David explains, "It's really incredible how an experience comes to you during the training that stays with you forever, because it's all yours."

Characteristic of his "loner", private image, David prefers to play alone on stage with no back-up.

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David Pomeranz is very definitely a romantic. He is a quiet, private person whose deep green eyes penetrate through any intruder into his world. Once relaxed, he exposes a warm sensitivity; a quality evident in the versatility of his poetic lyrics. David lives almost reclusively in a tiny apartment on the beach. However, due to the recent influx of money, he has made plans to move into the kind of home he has always wanted.

Sensitivity seems ingrained in the personality of David Pomeranz; however this awareness has come about only recently through the teachings of Werner Erhard and EST. "In 1971, I had my first tamperings with powerful consciousness experiences when I started using drugs. This gave me an inkling that there had to be more. When I took EST, I was really primed; I was in the right place." David is amazed at the tremendous expansion possibilities EST brought into his life. He explains, "It's really incredible how an experience comes to you during the training that stays with you forever because it is all yours."

Since EST, David has investigated other consciousness training techniques, but they all seem to point to the same thing, "It's almost as if I had gone through life looking for an excuse to expand." He continues, "These little things like EST give you an opportunity to look at barriers and blocks; they are just intensive looking experiences—chances to experience your essence."

These changes that David Pomeranz has experienced as a person have the unique mirror of his music. His songs, while expressing various traumas and joys also convey the simultaneous personal expansion as well as professional growth. David shakes his head as if reaffirming his discovery: "Every experience is an experience of yourself" — And, as he says in his lyrics, "It's in every one of us...to be wise...find your heart."

LUCINDA SMITH

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BOCEPHUS — (HANK WILLIAMS, JR.) —
DOING SOME SERIOUS SHADOW
CASTING OF HIS OWN

Shortly after a close brush with death, Hank said, "I feel as if I had been born again and given the opportunity to live my life the way I want the second time around."

It's tough standing in the shadow of
a legend.

Bocephus knew that going in.
Perhaps that's why he never gave
anyone the chance to catch him
standing. Right up front, Hank leaned
into the wind and moved out...into
the open country—pressing straight
ahead. And to the tune of his own
words and music.

The record clearly shows, that in the
process, Hank Williams' son Bocephus,
managed to do some serious shadow-
casting of his own.

As proof, the big, ranging singer
grabbed up enough awards and honors
along the way to start his own trophy
store. But Hank figures he just recently
received the greatest reward of them
all—namely, a thing called peace of
mind. And this came packaged with a
fresh, new sense of direction for his
life. Professional and private.

Step number one in this new lifestyle
direction was moving lock, stock and
recording career to a quiet, picturesque
community called Cullman, Alabama.
He set up his household in a modest,
but spacious A-frame home neatly
set on a green, woodsy horizon
overlooking a placid lakefront.

Step number two actually came first.
This involved signing a highly
successful, Cullman-based
businessman named James R. Smith as
his personal manager.

The third step was the big one. After
paintaking research and cautious
negotiations, young Hank Williams, Jr.
joined the aggressive Warner-Curb
Division of Warner Bros. Records.

The quiet mannered, casual young
Williams arrived at that new time and
place in his life shortly after a close
brush with death. Hank put it in these
words, "I feel as if I had been born
again and given the opportunity to live
my life the way I want to the second
time around."

Talking about his own music,
Bocephus declared, "I want to perform
my own kind of music, whether it's

bluegrass Kentucky or rock'n'roll in
Jackson, Miss."

And Hank Williams, Jr. is well
armed to do just that.

Most of the songs on the *Hank Williams, Jr. & Friends* album released the first of 1976 were written by Hank and he plays every instrument heard on the LP. Playing all those different instruments is part of Hank's stage performance. He started early and has worked hard at learning each different instrument.

By the time he was eight years old he
had learned to play the guitar his
mother had given him. He was eight
when he stepped out onto a stage for
the first time also. Since then, Hank's
stage career has taken him on a wide
sweep up and down the land, hitting
every state in the Union plus a few
foreign countries to boot.

During the childhood years of eight
to fourteen, the trade-wise Audrey
Williams booked Hank with the
traveling Musical Caravan of Stars.
The troupe played mostly small towns
in keeping with Audrey's strict
strategy which required keeping young

Hank out of the national spotlight
during those first years.

Speaking more as a mother than
a manager Audrey once explained, "I
wanted to be sure that music was what
Hank wanted." It was.

It was in the spring of 1964 when
Audrey figured Hank was ready. On a
Sunday afternoon in Detroit, Hank
stepped into the spotlights of the
canyon-sized Cobo Hall and poured
his soul into the performance of one of
his dad's classics, a song titled
"Wedding Bells." The crowd, some
20,000 strong, came straight up.

That triumph on his professional
debut was topped in dramatic style five
years later when he and Johnny Cash
rolled into Cobo Hall and wrote music
biz history by racking up a staggering
$90,000 at the box office—the largest
gross ever for a country
music performance.

There has been a steady string of
dramatic career landmarks all up and
down the line for Hank.

Talking about his own music,
Bocephus declared, "I want to perform
my own kind of music, whether that
means playing bluegrass in Kentucky,
or rock 'n roll in Jackson, Mississippi."

When Hank was fourteen, Audrey
negotiated a staggering $300,000, three
year recording contract with MGM
Records. Hank continued to renew that
recording pact until the first of 1976
when he examined his singing career in
the light of his new found music
philosophy and made the decision to
move to the Warner-Curb label.

At sixteen, he became the youngest
songwriter ever honored by BMI as he
won an award for the self-written
number one chart recording of
*Standing In The Shadows*. Since then
there have been scores of songwriting
awards and he has had over a dozen
number one national chart hits.

In a more tangible vein there is a
Gold Album on his wall which
represents one million dollars in RIAA
certified sales for his movie sound-
track titled *Your Cheatin' Heart*.

NARAS awarded him a Grammy
(record business equivalent to the
motion picture Oscar) for the Best
Country Album of 1964.

And there are international awards
such as the Billboard Magazine's 1971
International Award for England's
Entertainer of the Year. The following
year he won a similar award from
Playboy Magazine.

Besides performing and making
records, Hank has left his mark in the
field of motion pictures and TV. When
he was fourteen, he broke all
precedents by being booked for a
highly successful shot on the Ed
Sullivan Show without benefit of so
much as a recording contract or
professional track record. He has a
cherished personal letter from Ed
Sullivan on his wall, thanking him for
the appearance. In the meantime he has
made guest appearances on almost
every major network TV variety show.

Movie-wise he won co-star billing in
a picture titled *A Time To Sing*. He did
the soundtrack for that movie and
shared the marquee with Shelly
Fabares and Oscar-winner Ed Begley.

He has left his mark musically in the
filmworld as well. His movie
soundtrack credits include *A Time To
Sing, Your Cheatin' Heart, Kiowa
Jones, Kelly's Heroes, and
Tick...Tick...Tick.*

To keep his life in balance and to
stay in touch with the wide, wide
world off stage and away from
recording studios, Hank hovers over
his impressive, well kept collection of
old western six guns and Civil War
relics. And at every opportunity he
eases into the open country to hunt
and fish—a pastime which he has
pursued from Alaska to Africa.

One of his closest brushes with
danger and near death came in the
wake of a snowslide in Montana that
swept the singer 500 feet down the
ragged side of a mountain. He was
critical for three days and went from
205 lbs. to 160 lbs. in fifteen days. He
underwent five operations from
August 1975 through March of 1976.
But now Bocephus is back—climbing
even higher mountains and accepting
new challenges. Such as making
himself a major part of today's music
scene. To move Hank Williams, Jr.,
into the country-rock field is his
greatest challenge, and he is just the
man that can meet it.

If you will notice when someone
says, "Hey, you don't sound like your
daddy," he doesn't frown...he smiles.
BOCEPHUS AND THE BAMA
BAND—A man and a group for today
and tomorrow. ☐

BEHIND THE
SCENES

GERALD PETERS — CHAUFFEUR
TO THE KING OF ROCK 'N ROLL (AND)
OTHER ASSORTED NOBILITY

"I've been a chauffeur all my life; I started in England. Actually," he quips, "I'm not a chauffeur, but an actor playing a chauffeur's part."

One entire wall of his Beverly Hills office is covered with accolades from everybody who is anybody in the giant world of entertainment. The first one that hits you in the eye is right by the entrance and is signed "To Gerald, the best chauffeur I've ever had. Hugh Hefner." Right next to it is a picture of Pricilla Presley — "To Gerald, thank you for all your kindness." And next to those, thank you's and compliments from Tom Jones, Elton John, and others too numerous to mention. On the opposite wall is a very large oil painting of Elvis Presley, tastefully framed.

"Yes, I'm Elvis' chauffeur. He's been with me for six years now. Elvis is the greatest — a warm, wonderful human being."

Gerald Peters strikes one more as an English gentleman mixed with an

Oliver Holmesian, flashy, story-telling gift — the kind of personality you'd expect to see on your favorite TV talk show — rather than the owner of a very prestigious and personal London Towne Livery Service. In fact, that's not so surprising, as Gerald turns out to be a TV and movie personality, having to his credits, the Jack Paar Show, The Johnny Carson Show, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, etc., etc. "One of my stories caused Paar to go into hysterics and fall out of his chair right there on the show," Peters remarks in his cool, tongue-in-cheek tone of voice. "Fact is, he liked it so much, he insisted that I retell it the next three times I was on his show. Paar must've told Merv Griffin about the joke, 'cause the first time I ever was on with Merv, he grabbed me as I was going past his dressing room, and said, 'Gerry, please be sure to tell that hilarious story Paar loves'."

Inside Peter's $60,000 Silver Hawk.
There are only 12 other Hawks in the
world, and those are owned by the
Arab sheiks.

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One would wonder what such an obvious entertainer is doing running London Livery. "I've been a chauffeur all my life. I started in England. Actually," he quips, "I'm not really a chauffeur, but an actor playing a chauffeur's part. I'm a person who likes luxury, and I've never been able to live that way. I've always wanted to be close to the top, without it costing an arm and a leg." He concludes, "This way I can do just that—live close to the top without being a millionaire."

"In England, I worked for Lord Rothschild, probably at that time the richest man in the world." Apparently enjoying the humor of his story before he tells it, he continues: "One day Lord Rothschild and I were in the unusual situation of having to take a trolley. Well, his Lordship was so rich, he never carried money himself. Well, I didn't have a penny on me, and surprisingly his Lordship found he had a pound-note in his picket, so he handed it to the conductor. Handing a trolley conductor a pound-note for a penny fare is like handing one of my drivers $30.00 and asking for the change. Well, you should have seen the look on that conductor's face. He said in his cockney voice, 'Who do you think I am Governor', waving the pound-note in his Lordship's face, 'Lord Rothschild or something?' And his Lordship quipped back, 'No, because I'm Lord Rothschild! You may keep the change.' That conductor must've told that story for years," Peters laughs, with a merry twinkle in his eye.

"I think that's why London Livery has, in its six-and-a-half years grown faster than most here have in twenty years. Service is the name of the game, and I learned that well as a young man in England, what with class distinctions." As an afterthought, Peters adds, "Not that we were poorly treated. In England, if a chauffeur got a good family, they gave you everything you needed—cars, clothes, a house on the estate, sent your kids through school, even looked after you when you retired. All you had to do was first accept the fact that you were their servant. It's that kind of attitude that my drivers have: that rare, old-world distinction, so our service doesn't become a contact bureau for up-and-coming 'stars'. It's that distinction which makes the difference in the minds of an Elvis Presley or a King Hussein. That's why they come to me."

Pausing for a moment, Peters adds, "That's also why Elvis requests me to drive him personally. He leads enough of a telescope life. He's got to be very careful; he doesn't have enough privacy as it is."

Peters never got around to laying out his future plans as an entertainer, but the answer to the question was hinted at as he pulled some 8 x 10 glossies out of his desk drawer, and

"Yes, I'm Elvis' chauffeur," beams Gerald Peters. "He's been with me for six years now. Elvis is the greatest — a warm, wonderful human being."

proceeded to autograph them. Like he said, "I'm not a chauffeur—I'm an actor playing a chauffeur's part." Judging from his clientele, he must've gone to the best of acting schools.

MERLE DAUTREY

Photos By: Chico Fernandez

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Jimmy and Dash love being "out there, interacting with people, where life is happening." It's that love of people that S & C's audiences tune into, when they go to the duo's concerts.

See the smile awaitin' in the kitchen
Food cookin' and the plates for two
Feel the arms reach out to hold me
In the evening when the day is through
Summer Breeze *
(Seals and Crofts)

Many people these days have a tendency to believe that the last wholesome event to happen in the popular music world was Pat Boone. And with the onstage fare these days starting with such tidbits as goring live chickens, tearing them apart, and throwing the pieces to the audience, one could wonder if the Marquis De Sade isn't readying himself for a second, cruel incarnation.

But leaving the Marquis to his own strange devices, there appears to be a new era dawning in contemporary music, and it is most obviously being heralded in by two Texans-turned-Californians: Jimmy Seals and Dash Crofts. From the moment they walk onstage to sing, they make you feel downright good. And afterwards, when they chat with those of the audience who decided to stay to hear

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Due to a very complicated guitar style, Jimmy doesn't move around much on stage till he picks up his fiddle; then he feels really free.

about Jimmy and Dash's Baha'i (pronounced Ba-high) Faith, the good, warm feeling continues.

"We love to play music and make people happy," says Jimmy. "In fact, when we talk to our kids about going on the road, that's the way we describe it—we're going out to sing and play and make people feel good."

Jimmy and Dash, long before Seals and Crofts had ever been dreamed of,

have been going out on that road, which in some respects hasn't always been that loving. Jimmy was a very young 12 and Dash only 16, when the two first started on the road together. The group, The Champs, had just recorded their classic-to-be *Tequila*, and being made up primarily of studio musicians who didn't want to travel, the record label, Challenge, was frantically looking for people to be in the road group. Recalls Jimmy, "Dave Burgess, a producer for Gene Autry's new label, had heard a record Dash and I had recorded with an artist in Texas, liked what he heard, and so asked us to join the group."

"Yeh," laughs Dash, "there were some funny things that happened, too. Like having to take guardians with us on the road 'cause we were so young. If you can imagine, we went all over the world for eight years doing one-nighters, and in those days, we travelled extensively by car and trailer. No sooner than we'd do a date, we'd have to jump in the car and drive anywhere from 150 to 500 miles, taking turns trying to sleep in the back seat, and get to the next gig just by the hair on our necks. A lot different than this four-week plane tour. I mean this," Dash chuckles, preening his beard, "this is real luxury."

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Wherever Jimmy and Dash play,
they always get standing ovations.
After a beautiful, final song, Dash,
and singer Carolyn Willis are last to
leave the stage.

"We did some pretty dumb things
too," Dash continues. "Like the way we
handled all the money we earned. We
acted like it grew on trees. Remember
when you were a kid what it was like
going to a circus, that's what sudden
success was like for us, being so young
and everything. It was quite a life, but
the experience was valuable—we kinda
grew up on the road."

It was late 1964, and the Beatles were
happening, and yet Seals and Crofts
(as the Champs) were still out there
doing basically '50's music. It was time
for a change—"and we were tired,"
remembers Jimmy. "Dash went home
to Texas to rest, and I stayed in LA to

write." Dash recalls the humor of his
first (and last) nine-to-five job: "I'd
been travelling and playing music for
eight years, and I'd never had a real
job in my life, I mean an ordinary job
like other people, y'know? I wanted to
see what it felt like, so my dad, who
was then Assistant Mayor of our town,
fixed me up with a clerk typist job at
City Hall, and the first day I started the
job, all I saw was those four walls! 'Let
me out of here!' I thought to myself.
'This just isn't for me!'" (Dash gave his
two weeks notice on the first day).

What Dash finally realized, barely
into his twenties, was that what he had
been doing for the last eight years, he
wanted to be doing for the rest of his
life. "Jimmy was back in LA putting a
new group together, and I was laying
around in that hot Texas sun one day,

when sure enough," Dash chuckles,
"Jimmy called me and said to come
quick to LA, they needed a drummer. I
was out on the next plane."

Our lives sure took a few wild turns
after Dash got back from Texas," muses
Jimmy. "We kinda believe that things
are what they should be, and all we
have to do is do a good job of listening
with our inner ear, so to speak. Both
Dash and I were starting to get vague
inklings something good was waiting
for us, like Dash wanting to visit all his
old friends and the places he grew up
in, cause he had this feeling he might
not be able to do it later."

Marcia Day, Seals and Crofts'
manager, shown backstage,
enjoying one of Jimmy and Dash's
performances.

John Robb

Several interesting things started to
unfold. One was the deep friendship
between Jim and Dash. Dash recalls,
"We were roommates for a number of
years while we were in The Champs,
but it was more of a musical
compatability, rather than the kind of
friendship we have now, because we
didn't really know each other as well as
we do now. But when we became the
center of a group of people, when Seals
and Crofts started, then that's when we
really got to know each other." But,
before the duo Seals and Crofts were
to emerge, Jimmy, and Dash, who had
just recently returned from Texas,
formed a group with two other guys
who have been very instrumental in
helping them get where they are today.
Those two other guys were Louis
Shelton, guitarist for the group (later to

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become Seals and Crofts' producer), and Joey Bogan, bass player and leader of the group (later to become S & C's engineer). But perhaps the key event in their entire unfoldment occured when the boys met Marcia Day, an ex-model and actor's agent, soon to become their manager.

"Marcia," explains Jimmy, "had three daughters who were singers in Las Vegas, and their back-up group had to go back to Oklahoma for an engagement, so Marcia suggested, 'Why don't we put both groups together and make a show group, you can get the experience, and meanwhile work on your original material.'" A good friend of Marcia's, Bob Alcivar (who'd been producing the Fifth Dimension) came in at Marcia's request to do vocal arrangements for the new group, The Dawnbreakers. "This whole time was sorta the beginning of a very deep relationship with Marcia," recalls Dash. "Who would've ever thought that my manager would end up being my mother-in-law!" he winked.

There were a lot of things they would never have thought of; such as, that while they were living up at Marcia's old 5-bedroom house on Hollywood Boulevard (since then, fondly referred to as Marcia's Place) Dash would become friends with Billie Lee, one of Marcia's daughters, and marry her; Joey then would marry Lana Day; Louie would marry Donnie Day; and lastly, Jimmy would marry Ruby Jean Anderson who, though not related, was also staying at Marcia's. In fact, the day that Dash and Billie Lee married, was the very day Jimmy and Ruby Jean announced their engagement. As Dash kids about it, "Ol' Jimmy just had to get in the act," quipping with his slow Texas drawl. "He probably thought he was going to get left out," he teases.

Jimmy and Dash were no sooner off their plane in Seattle, than they rushed to a nearby hospital to sing for a 16-year-old girl stricken with leukemia.

The duo chatting after the concert with those of the audience who decided to stay to hear about the Baha'i (pronounced Ba-high) Faith.

John Robb

John Robb

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As the guys have described it, the events that started molding all these people together were "weird, kinda like a divine hand," as Jim describes it, "was putting us all together for its own purposes." The Dawnbreakers soon folded, but all decided to stay in business together, and form their own publishing company. Meanwhile, Jimmy and Dash were very busy in the basement at Marcia's shaping what would soon become Seals and Crofts. Marcia heard them one night, as she was walking past their door, and was so moved, that she barged right into the room, exclaiming, "You guys are ready! I'm going to get you a recording contract." Marcia's feelings were right, and she signed Jimmy and Dash to Warner Brothers. The hits would soon begin....

But the focal point of all these events seemed to be Jimmy and Dash's discovery of the Bahā'ī Faith, a new World religion established in 1848 by Bahā'ullāh of Persia. The religion, which is clergyless, espouses the search for truth, the oneness of mankind, the unity of religions, of races, of nations, of East and West, the reconciliation of religion and science, the eradication of prejudice and superstition, the equality of men and women, the unification of languages, etc. But to underline all these tenets of Bahā'ī is a supreme practicality which stresses man's development in the service of humanity and God.

"Becoming Bahā'ī is really influenced our music," tells Jimmy. "The love of music was always foremost in our lives, so when we heard of Bahā'ī, our music just became an outlet for the energy that'd been building up there."

Jim and Dash are not proselytizers, nor are they missionaries. What they are, are two musician/singer-songwriters who happen to love humanity and God, and anything they can do to make people happy and share the glimpses of truth they've had, they will. As Dash so aptly put it, "We're all here to help one another anyway, so we might as well get on with it." And helping people and caring is really what Jimmy and Dash are all about. When Guatamala was hit last year by a very destructive earthquake, which left tens of thousands homeless, the duo sent their plane Thunderfoot to the stricken country four times, loaded with doctors, medics, food, supplies, blankets, etc. Jimmy and Dash, who were recording their Get

Closer album at the time, also sent Marcia Day, Garnie (one of her daughters), and Tommy Kavelin, the office manager at Day 5 Productions, who speaks fluent Spanish, and who stayed in Guatamala working in the ruins for over four months. "These kinds of decisions come natural to Seals and Crofts," Tommy points out; "They just do what they feel is right." In fact, as Michael Quinn, a long-time friend of Jimmy's explains, "These guys see all these things very logically, not as pie-in-the-sky. They're very simple, loving people. Simple in the sense that they're very straight-forward."

And it's because of that straight-forwardness, and that love of people, that although Jimmy and Dash love to work in the recording studio, their greatest satisfaction comes from "being out there, inter-acting with people, where life is happening." It's that straight-forwardness that Seals and Crofts' audiences tune in to when they go to the duo's concerts and buy their records.

MERLE DAUTREY

Jimmy, like Dash, is a very simple, loving person. Simple in the sense that he's very straight-forward.

Steven R. Beyer

Seals and Crofts are real family people, and always look forward to coming home to be with their wives and children.

John Robb

Summer Breeze

© 1972 Dawnbreaker Music
Used by permission only.
All rights reserved.

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Well, I'll make it all right
From Monday morning til Friday night
But, oh, those lonely weekends...

(C. Rich)

For CHARLIE RICH there have been
more lonely weekends than he would
care to remember. Close to twenty
years' worth. Twenty years of singing
and playing his heart out to countless
people in countless bars and honky
tonks throughout the country.

But, today, Charlie "The Silver Fox"
Rich is a bona fide superstar — a talent
of the first magnitude whose hit
records and personal appearances have
won him international acclaim. 1974
was called the "Year of the Fox" and
the end is nowhere in sight.

It all started some 41 years ago on a
small cotton plantation near Colt,
Arkansas. Charlie's parents were
gospel-singing, bible-belt Missionary
Baptists. As a child Charlie was
exposed to three distinctly different
types of music — the white gospel of his
parents, the blues of the black field
hands and the country sounds of the
Grand Ole Opry. In high school,
Charlie, who had studied piano as a
kid, but was playing tenor sax in the
school band, became hooked on jazz.
As he remembers it, "I was into Stan
Kenton so heavily that my friends
started calling me 'Charlie Kenton'."
Aside from his music, Charlie's
primary passions were his girlfriend,
Margaret Ann (now his wife of 22
years), and football. He was an all-
state end during high school and is
now part owner of the World Football
League Memphis Southmen.

After a year at the University of
Arkansas, the Korean War put an end
to Charlie's formal schooling. He went
into the Air Force, married Margaret
Ann after completing basic training
and spent the remainder of his hitch
stationed in Enid, Oklahoma. He
played in a jazz band on the base and
doubled with a small combo in town
whose vocalist was — Margaret Ann.
Her performing career began and
ended there, although she has done
some back-up vocals on a number of
Charlie's records and is also an
accomplished songwriter.

When he was discharged from the
Air Force in 1955, Charlie decided to
try his hand at farming. "I wanted
some security for my family. We had
two kids and one on the way and the
idea of making enough money through
my music seemed pretty remote. But,
when I had the time, I used to play gigs
around Memphis for ten or twenty
dollars a night."

Charlie had an uncle in West Memphis,
Arkansas who offered to set him up as
a farmer. "The first year was fine",
Charlie remembers, "and the second
year was so-so. So we started out the
third year and it rained and rained and
rained. We couldn't get the crops in so
we decided to quit. I could have kept
on going because my uncle was willing
to keep helping me, but..." Margaret
Ann chuckles when she thinks back on
Charlie's farming career: "As a farmer,
Charlie was a pretty good
piano player."

Relaxing on one of his bikes with wife Margaret Ann, Charlie's come a long way from being a dirt farmer in Arkansas, and struggling to survive.

Charlie started singing and playing in
Memphis on a pretty regular basis — in
piano bars and after hour joints. He
and Margaret Ann were both doing a
lot of songwriting — often
together — and finally Charlie managed
to get some tunes down on a small
home tape recorder. One night at a
party he met Bill Justis, an A&R
(Artists and Repetoire) man for the
legendary Sam Phillips at Sun Records.
About a month later Margaret Ann
called Justis and asked if she could
bring over Charlie's tapes. Justis liked
what he heard, but felt Charlie wasn't
commercial enough. He did, however,
hire Charlie as a session musician and
encouraged him to write more songs.

Charlie's long struggle now being over,
he's planning for the future of his
newborn granddaughter, who he's
pictured proudly holding.

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Charlie joined Sun Records just as the company which had launched the careers of such stars as Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley was losing its dominant position in rock 'n roll. Charlie eventually cut a couple of records on his own which didn't do too well. But the third, a song he had written for Jerry Lee called *Lonely Weekends*, became a smash hit and things looked promising. But none of his follow-up records did very well.

Charlie eventually left Sun and signed with RCA Records. He had a minor hit with a song called *Big Boss Man*, but nothing to match the success of *Lonely Weekends*. He then moved on to Mercury Records and scored a smash hit with *Mohair Sam* in 1965. Again, the follow-up recordings failed to make it.

In the meantime, the time spent away from home was beginning to take its toll. "I liked to be home with my family, but the only way to keep a roof over our heads was to go on the road. It was beginning to ruin my health, to say nothing of my relationship with my family. As a matter of fact, at one point, Margaret Ann took the kids and moved out on me. That really shook me and it was a month before she agreed to come back."

After leaving Mercury Records, Charlie signed with Hi Records, a Memphis based operation. But by 1968, he was looking for another label. "After leaving Hi", says Charlie, "Sy Rosenberg, my manager, went over and talked to Epic Records. He came back and mentioned that Billy Sherrill, who had engineered some of my records at Sun, was now a producer at Epic. Sy said that the company wasn't offering any cash advance for signing, but I felt that, because I'd be working with Billy, it was the best thing to do. And it was."

At Epic, Charlie and Billy Sherrill began refining the country-pop sound which eventually lead to such enormous success. A number of Charlie's early releases for the company became regional hits, but it wasn't until 1972 that Charlie scored a breakthrough onto the Country Top 20 with a song called *I Take It On Home*.

Finally after close to two decades of struggle, everything came together with a rush in 1973. Charlie recorded another Kenny O'Dell song (O'Dell had written *I Take It On Home*) called *Behind Closed Doors* — and the dam burst. *Behind Closed Doors* shot to the top of the Country charts and crossed over to enter the Top 10 on all the pop charts. The single sold more than a million copies and the follow-up *The*

The Silver Fox receiving a recent award as Entertainer of the Year. In the past few years, receiving awards is nothing new for Charlie Rich.

*Most Beautiful Girl* attained "platinum" status—more than two million copies sold. Charlie Rich was finally the certified star so many friends and people in the music industry had long felt he deserved to be.

1973 also saw Charlie Rich being presented with a number of coveted awards. The Academy of Country Music named him "Best Male Vocalist". His single recording of *Behind Closed Doors* was named "Single of the Year" and his album of the same name, took the honors as "Album of the Year." The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) voted Charlie "Best Male Country Vocalist".

Personal appearance offers also came pouring in after the success of *Behind Closed Doors*. Charlie began to show up on television with increasing regularity and his first network television special is set for this Fall.

Recently Charlie appeared at the Las Vegas Hilton and took the town by storm. His drawing power was second only to Elvis. A European tour is planned for the Fall and, of course,

there will be more records to be cut and still more television shows to do. Charlie Rich has arrived.

And he's here to stay. His career, grounded in pure talent, dedication and perseverance, has taken the "Silver Fox" to the pinnacle in his profession and earned him a place as true superstar. And while it has brought about many definite changes in his lifestyle—it hasn't really changed his way of life.

But Charlie sums it up best in his own words, "One of the things that makes me the happiest about what is happening now is that I can plan my life better than before. I have more opportunity to pick and choose what I want to do. I don't have to take what is handed to me anymore. And, most importantly, there's more time for my family. You know, I'm not sure how well I'd have been able to handle things if all this had come about when I was 20 or 25. Maybe things do always work out for the best."

Maybe they do. ☐

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MEET
WALLY THOR,
TRUCKMASTER
AND SPONSOR
OF COUNTRY
MUSIC STARS

Meeting Wally Thor is an experience. You think for sure you're meeting a real dyed-in-the-wool rancher-cowboy, rather than the owner of probably America's most successful truck-driving school, Truckmaster School of Trucking in Whittier, California.

Well, I'm really a cowboy at heart," confesses Wally, "but we have a lot of fun doin' this, helpin' all sorts of people get good-paying jobs in the ever-growing truck-driving field. When I started this idea, back in '70, I had five students a month," he says with a slight accent which hints at just a bit of Texas. Today, Thor's school has 40 instructors, is opening branches in Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, San Bernardino, and San Jose, and graduates over 200 people a month. Also, as part of the program, Thor helps his graduates find jobs.

Thor has also sponsored generously many forms of country music that have been aimed at the truck driver. And, he has sponsored some of America's top country recording acts (like Red Sovine and Margo Smith, among others) into the Country Music Association in Hollywood. "I feel that anything I can do to help the growth of country music, I'll do it, so I sponsor year memberships into the Association." In addition Wally has donated the prize money for new country talent at North Hollywood's Palomino Club, and has sponsored a country music program at the Hollywood Palladium, with such guest stars as Freddie Hart, Red Simpson, Dave Dudley, and Red Sovine, who are all truck-driver oriented singers.

Asked about his feelings on the recent smash recording *Convoy*, by C. W. McCall, Wally feels that the record was "too far out." The record tells the story about a truck carrying logs across the country. "You'll never find a

FRIENDS OF MUSIC

"When I started this idea back in 1970, I had 5 students a month, now the school graduates over 200 people a month."

DON JOLLY

trucker with this type of load in a convoy," says Thor. He also felt that "the record doesn't help the trucking industry...a trucker wouldn't run a barricade either."

"By the way," adds Wally, "I just cut a record myself a few days back. It's the story about a guy that goes to trade in his old truck for a brand-new one, and finds that it hurts him too much to part with it. After all, they're like old friends."

And the truck-drivin' culture keeps movin' on.

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When you think of country singers, for some strange reason, you just don't think of Jewish country singers. But, now that we've all accepted the fact that a black man can be a country singer (Charile Pride), and a Mexican-American could actually twang a country tune (Johnny Rodriguez), we all may have easily forgotten that a few years ago, we were making exactly the same assumptions about black and Mexican-American country singers. Ah, but how quickly we forget.

Arnold Rosenthal leans back in an easy chair in his San Fernando Valley apartment, and relaxes as we both take a listen to his first single to get any kind of national radio airplay, *I'm The World's First Jewish Country Singer*. After it's over, he kinda chuckles to himself as he puts the dust-cover back on his turntable, and settles back down into a highback chair.

"Fifteen stations have picked up on it now, including stations in Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, Wyoming, Florida, and let me see...oh, yeh, Ohio. It's not really a clown thing; I really am a country singer and a serious one, but it's been kinda fun," he grins from ear to ear, with a distinctly non-orthodontic, but nevertheless warm, appealing smile. "Nah, the record doesn't really reflect my attitude about country music per se. But then, I sometimes think that music often takes itself too seriously at times, so I thought I'd loosen things up a little bit. And after all, I am Jewish, y'know."

In answer to a pointed question about that *other* Jewish country singer, "Kinky, eh—something or other—well, notice he didn't call

Arnold used to shut himself out from people by closing his eyes on stage; it seemed to be more rewarding. "However, by opening my eyes," he observes, "and expressing myself from within, I found I was able to be more effective."

"It was 1963, and the Beatles were starting to happen, so I started playing Beatles songs on my accordian. Beatle songs on accordian! Can you imagine?"

"Some time ago, I had a class in linguistics, and I found out something really startling: every thought process that can be communicated between two people can be so done in any language — so holding that true, it convinced me that we are all one thing."

Lead guitarist Larry Williams, Howard Deere, bass, Fred Stahle, drums, Arnold Rosenthal, piano.

himself the first, and that's because I am—I'm older." Laying around, with his white ten gallon hat on, no shirt, and a Star Of David necklace, Arnold certainly looks the title.

"But, I've done so much more than this; why, heck, I started in this business when I was eight years old—an accordian salesman came to the door, and honest injun', that's how I got started. Took lessons for four years, stopped, and then began playing Jewish weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. Let me see, I couldn't have been more than sixteen."

"And then one day my dad said, 'Arnold, it's time to get out on your own—get out!' Just like that. I didn't know what I was going to do. All I had was $150.00 in the bank, enough for a bartender's course. So, I took the course, and when I told the guy giving the course that I had no place to stay, he put me up. It was 1963, and the Beatles were starting to happen, and here I was staying in a house with a bunch of kids—so I started playing Beatle songs on my accordian. Beatle songs on accordian! Can you imagine?'

laughing that private laugh again. "The head of the school said he

liked me, and he'd build a band around me, but I just had to get rid of that awful accordian, so I learned bass guitar in two weeks, and changed my name to Georgie Dee. I changed my name for the same old reason; I mean, if y'can't picture a Jewish country singer, could you imagine Arnold Rosenthal, rock 'n roll star? So, the Jewish country singer bit is kinda full circle for me, and a chance to come honestly to terms with myself. After all, I am what I am, and what's there to be ashamed of?"

But there were other ways Arnold needed to come to grips with himself. "I always have been nervous talking to people, till I started gaining confidence in myself—then, I started putting myself out to people and began to feel good about myself. Some time ago, I had a class in linguistics (the history of the origin of man's language), and I found out something really startling: that there is no such thing as a primitive language. Every thought process that can be communicated between two people can be so done, in any language—so holding that true, it convinced me that we're all one thing—that all human beings are part

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of the same piece of cloth.”

Arnold used to shut himself out from people by closing his eyes on stage, for example; it seemed to be rewarding. "However by opening my eyes, and expressing myself (my emotions) from within," he found he was able to be more effective. "Though my peers had always talked about that as having Las Vegas connotations, (he touches people in the club), people pick up what you're about, if you're confident and feel good about yourself."

Even though Arnold had, over the years, played with some top bands (Gary Lewis and the Playboys, the Main Street Blues Band), and some top musicians (Leon Russell, J. J. Cale), prestige jobs and a modicum of success hadn't done anything for his insecurity. "But now we're gettin' somewhere," he sort of joyously muses.

"After some real years of rock 'n roll tourin' and some producing (Arnold even produced Gary Lewis at one point, sold him to Scepter, nothing came of it), I thought maybe going country and western would be a good idea. I didn't really have country roots, but I had folk roots though, and country came from folk, so it came naturally."

What other things does Arnold Rosenthal have on his list of important things? "Well, I went back to school not too long ago, and got involved in Speech Communication. I'll graduate this June of '77 with a degree in the performing arts — I value that (education and the pursuit of

"Nah, 'I'm The World's First Jewish Country Singer' doesn't really reflect my attitude about country music per se. But, then, I sometimes think that music often takes itself too seriously at times, so I thought I'd loosen things up a bit."

knowledge) as much as anything." Arnold stopped talking and there was a long silence. Suddenly, he was up and out of his chair, and turning on his record player. "Say, have you ever heard the flip side to *Jewish Country Singer*? It's called *Your Dog Leads a Better Life Than Me*." Flashing that Rosenthal grin, he puts on the record. "Now, if you wanna hear a story..." ☐

Photos By: John Robb

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*KEYBOARD* because we now cover piano and synthesizer as well as organ. *WORLD* because we have readers in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa, Japan, and New Zealand, and we print a separate Australian edition.

Maybe we're read so widely by over 50,000 people because each 48-page issue is jammed with talent-developing material— articles and columns put together by a panel of more than 20 of the top professional teachers and artists in this and other countries. Like:

Champ Champagne, Canadian composer of "The Galloping Gourmet Theme" for TV • Jan Bordeleau, performer and instructor, who writes our column on rock music • Winston Ingram from England, who shows how "You Can Play Jazz" • Jim Rousey, one of San Francisco's leading educators, who holds our "Modern Keyboard Clinic" • Del Castillo, one of the greats in the Music Hall of Fame, and one of the most active of concert organists, presents "Organ Stops & Other Things" • D. K. Warner, our "whiz" on electronics, who researches and reports in "Technical Corner."

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Evie Tornquist is shocking the world into realizing how "mainstream" a life of faith, and love in Christ, can be.

There are always the likely candidates for anything in life: the husky, strong-as-a-bull 190 pounder for the vacant spot of lineman on the football team; the young person who has just the perfect touch with words becoming student body president; the shy, awkward, plain Jane young lady, veering away from marriage, home and kids, and becoming a nun. These days, we seem to make so many assumptions, that we just about stereotype everything and everybody. That is, till you meet someone who breaks the mold, who doesn't fit the stereotype. Then, what do you do?

Well, a lot of people have been faced lately with just that dilemma in the person of bubbly, vivacious Evie Tornquist, a pert, five-foot blonde from Rahway, New Jersey, who somehow doesn't fit the old expectations. I mean she's absolutely, shamelessly, downright religious (*spiritual* would be a better word) and she doesn't look like convent material either. Why, she dresses up in bright, pretty clothes, and enjoys music, swimming, dancing, and even has thoughts of a husband and kids someday. What happened? What went wrong with our stereotypes?

What happened is that Evie Tornquist is shocking the world into realizing how "mainstream" a life of faith, and love in Christ can be. Why, the spiritual life can be wholesome and happy! My goodness, no more black clothes.

Well, black clothes and convents is not what Evie's all about. What she is all about is a young lady, who could be the girl next door, allowing herself to be an open channel for the love of God through her marvelous gem of a voice.

At nineteen, Evie has some very interesting credits. First, Evie has established herself as the top female vocalist in Scandinavia, winning its coveted Silver Star for the highest record sales of any recording artist; she's well on her way to unprecedented recognition as a gospel singer here in the United States; she's a fabulous performer who can match the best talents the secular music world has to offer; Evie's racked up awards, and moved audiences numbering into the tens of thousands by singing only Christian inspirational music; she's

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Evie's racked up awards, and moved audiences numbering into the tens of thousands, by singing only Christian inspirational music.

recorded eleven albums, three of which are in English, the remainder in Dutch and Norwegian. Her more recent achievements include joining Billy Graham on his Crusades, and new extensive appearances in such far-flung places like Australia and Tahiti. Even when Evie talks on TV, she deeply impresses audiences with her relaxed, open, candid manner, and above all, with her intense warmness.

Evie wasn't always caught up in all of this. In fact, until 1971, she lived a rather typical routine for a high school girl living in a New Jersey suburb. Typical, that is, until the Tornquists decided to visit native Norway.

Even when she talks on TV, she
deeply impresses audiences with
her relaxed, open, candid manner,
and above all, her
intense warmness.

"During our stay we were attending this big camp meeting," Evie recalls. "I had just been swimming and was wearing some grubby jeans and a shirt and my hair was still wet. The leader of the meeting announced that a young gospel singer was at the meeting and called me up to sing. A national television director was in the audience, and he asked me to appear on a talk show. I did, and *that* just split the whole thing apart."

There's an old adage that,
paraphrased, says that people can *feel*
what you're saying, even if they don't
really understand the *actual* words
you're using. Accepting that adage as
true, one would have reason to believe
that the intense humanity, and love of
God, that freely flowing from Evie
Tornquist, would be understood
intuitively by the most primitive tribe
in the darkest recesses of some strange
land. Such is the power of God's
reality, and beautiful is the heart of the
girl from Rahway who is showing so
many of us that Christian living is not
an equals sign for beards, robes,
and sandles.

Evie has some very interesting
credits: she has established herself
as the top female vocalist in
Scandinavia, and is the first
Christian artist to ever receive the
coveted Silver Star award.

[L]

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TUNING IN ON
MAXINE BELL—
COMPOSER
WITH SPECIAL
ANTENNAS

"Writing music is like trying to capture a rare perfume at night. You run around searching desperately for a bottle, saying, 'I've got to capture this smell before I lose it.'"

In 1938, Maxine Bell walked into her mother's bedroom and heard music. "I couldn't imagine how she could lay there so peacefully with this music blaring. I said, "For God's sake, turn down the radio." But the radio wasn't on and hasn't been since 1938 except in Maxine Bell's head where for the past 38 years, she has been receiving music inspirationally and transposing it into twenty solos for piano, a string quartet, two symphonies, a complete ballet of seventeen sequences and nine popular songs.

Critics have used the expression "Musical Medium" to describe Maxine Bell, but she prefers the term amanuensis or "musical secretary." "God has given certain people at

various times in history special musical antennas. The average TV antenna picks up regular channels, but I've got reception like UHF. I hear the music complete and perfect from beginning to end...a complete orchestra; full-blast, so loud that I can't shut it off."

Composing music by inspiration is an ability which has been attributed to many composers including Beethoven and Brahms. "Beethoven would take a walk in the woods and come back with an entire symphony in his head. He didn't just sit down at the piano and write." Maxine continues, "When I first started hearing this music, it scared me to death. I spoke to several people who encouraged me to write it down. It was hell at first. I didn't know the names of the chords and I put the stems on the wrong side of the notes." Although she never studied harmony, theory or counter-point, an extensive background in piano technique laid the foundation for the music she would later receive inspirationally.

Labelled a prodigy at three, Maxine did not begin her piano instruction until the age of seven. "I had mediocre teachers until at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. I studied master classes with Paul Stoye."

From 1939—1945, Maxine toured the country as a concert pianist leaving memories of bad publicity and bad pianos. "If you're not a big name, you will not fill the hall, you'll play on a bad piano, and still lose your shirt." These experiences combined with a general dread of large and typically sterile concert halls resulted in Maxine's current formula for successful concerts: "I much prefer the intimate salon concerts in the style of Franz Liszt. I want to talk to my audience, I want to touch them."

Music is only one method through which Maxine Bell has mastered the art of touching people. She is a recognized authority in the fields of astrology and exorcism. She is a minister in the Universal Church of the Master, and has spent many years counseling and lecturing. A television series is being developed around her life as well as a movie. She hopes to use her music as background and eventually cut a record album.

The power and technical perfection found in her works is reminiscent of various styling techniques used by Mozart, Tschaikowsky and Brahms. There is a strong classical echo and yet the sound is definitely Maxine Bell and amazingly unique. Roy Harris of UCLA's music school says of her music, "It belongs a hundred years back in time." Pietro Chimini, former west coast director of the Metropolitan Opera, calls Maxine "a pianist's pianist."

Now, at the age of sixty, Maxine Bell plans to devote the rest of her multifaceted energies towards having her music heard. Her obvious enjoyment of life which she has previously expressed through varied professions will surely find a new audience in her music. Once she touches the keyboard, her compositions are released through her masterful understanding of the instrument and a sound is released which despite its "inspirational" origin is registered in the human ear as undeniably beautiful. □

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Wanna hear something incredible?
Typical kid from Middle-America
writes a letter to the editor of the LA
Times in February 1975, in response to
a feature written in the Opinion section
of the newspaper on the Beatles. He
lauds the article, and in moving words,
paints a picture of the tremendous
influence the Beatles had on his
growing up. In fact, he made mention
of a diary he kept on their year-by-
year development and paralleled it
with accounts of what was going on
in his own life at the same time. Jeanne
Sakol, who works for Delilah
Communications in New York,
happened to be vacationing in Los
Angeles, read Ron's letter about his
diary, contacted him, suggesting he
develop the whole concept into a book
on the Beatles. He did, and she took it
to Pyramid Books in New York, and
now it's out, a marvelous, 8 x 10, 300-
page trip through time called *Growing
Up With The Beatles*. Who says letters
to the editors don't pay? ☐

Songwriting team Al Kasha and Joel
Hirshhorn have just completed their
scoring of the new Walt Disney
Production *Pete's Dragon*, which stars
Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, Shawn
Marshall, and Jim Dale. The musical,
which includes animation, is pure
family entertainment, and has the

The next big thing may be
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And the first pairing of the two art
forms looks like it will be heavy-metal
group Kiss and Marvel Comics. This
could be followed by a teaming of
Marel Comics and Paul McCartney,
David Bowie, Alice Cooper, and Elton
John. According to Steve Gerber,
creator of the project, Marvel has
already been approached by the above
superstars. Taking the next logical step,
the kids of tomorrow may be watching
Alice Cooper on Saturday morning,
instead of Hercules. Mmm.... ☐

Talking about movies, the movie
they've been trying to make for years
will soon begin to shoot: the as-yet
untitled life story of legendary Buddy
Holly. Executive producer Ed Cohen
maintains that it will be the first
dramatic film about the life of a real
rock star. When you realize that Holly,
in his very short career, only wrote 45
songs, you understand that it's quality,
not quantity, that makes someone
great. Someone great enough to

The West Coast has lost a real
sophisticated lady of song since
Marcene Harris passed away recently.
The very versatile Marcene, who had
accomplishments as a composer,
vocalist, musician, and actress, came
from a musical family, and was the
sister-in-law of comedian Redd Foxx.
In her life, Marcene gave selflessly of
her time to help others less fortunate
than she. ☐

King Khalid of Saudi Arabia is reportedly furious at discovering Beatle fans in his desert kingdom and has sent a memo to the Saudia Arabia Airlines about the spreading of the "sinful Beatles phenomena". He cautioned the airlines to be on the alert for the growing of long hair, long sideburns and long fingernails, which he describes as symptoms of "the dreaded Beatlemania". The king also warned the airlines that "those who continue Beatling should be subject to punishment." ☐

The Publisher of *Who's Where In Music*, Don Jolly, sends his congratulations to President-elect Jimmy Carter on his recent victory in the election. Mr. Jolly asks all Americans to get behind our new president, in helping to dissolve the apathy and cynicism which has had a grip on our national consciousness all too long. ☐

AT A

GLANCE

makings of a box-office success. But
then, that can be expected with
anything Al and Joel touch in recent
years. The picture's release is expected
sometime in 1977. ☐

Mary Kay Place, known to all late-
night TV addicts as Loretta Haggers
(friend, neighbor, and alter-ego of
Mary Hartman), has just recorded
*Tonight! Live At The Capri Lounge,*
*Loretta Haggers*. The funny thing is it's
Loretta Haggers that's getting top
billing here. So which is it, folks: art
imitates life, or life imitates art?
Grapple with that. ☐

influence the Beatles, the Stones,
Bobby Fuller, Cliff Richard, Mike
Berry, Denny Laine, ad infinitum...☐

Barbi Benton has abandoned
country music, so the word goes, and
taken up the pop torch. Apparently,
her producer was one of the major
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"hates" country. Oh well, country's
loss could be pop's gain, as Barbi has
proved her talents constitute more than
her looks. ☐

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Mr. Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
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13 December 1976

Dear Mr. Secretary;

I would like to take this opportunity to add my voice to the many
who are expressing their appreciation to you for the excellent job
you performed for all of man kind during your tour of duty as our
Secretary of State.

Certainly much of peace in the world today is due to your efforts
and understanding. I'm in hopes that this trend will continue.

Again, thank you Mr. Secretary. Warmest Wishes for a happy holiday
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December 28, 1976

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

The time is rapidly approaching that will signal
the end of the period during which you have most capably
served this great nation as its Secretary of State.
Thereafter you will be free from the crushing burden you so
well have borne - the long hours of preparation, the
exhausting travel, the wearying conferences, the unjust
criticism by the news media, etc. - throughout these past
few years in your endeavors to fully and faithfully execute
the many difficult tasks that were required by the office
you have filled.

Many of the citizens of this country, perhaps a
majority of them, neither realize nor appreciate the great
efforts you have made for their benefit. It is regretable
that this is so. There is, however, a large segment of our
population (and I am included in that group) that does fully
comprehend and is most grateful to you for everything you
have accomplished for everyone in this wonderful land, and
also for the efforts made by you to achieve objectives which,
for one reason or another, could not be realized. You
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and on behalf of everyone else in this land I say to you
"Thank you, very much, Dr. Kissinger, for your outstanding
services - for a job especially well done".

My every wish for good health, good luck and great
happiness in 1977 and in the years ahead.

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