The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 93

December 21, 1975 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER 'Crazy Golddiggers And 'Ink Spots' Holiday Entertainers By CLIFF RADEL Enquirer Contributor If spending a long December evening watching a living room's four walls slowly close in does not sound like the world's best entertainment buy, let someone else play host. Several entertainment spots in Greater Cincinnati are presenting a wide range of performers for the holiday season. DURING MOMENTS of jubilation. Red Foxx's Fred Sanford will burst into song. With one arm extended, hand fluttering in tempo, he usually does his Ink Spots imitation as he breaks into their hit, "If I Didn't Care." If his imitation caused you to wonder what happened to the group, wonder no more.

The Ink Spots are appearing now through on December 23. The day after Christmas through New Year's Eve, the Northern Kentucky nightclub will present Dean Martin's Golddiggers. Speaking of Beverly Hills, one group that played to large crowds when it appeared at the Southgate club was Myron and the Van Dells. Devotees of 1950s rock, Myron and his classmates from Van Dell High School will give a New Year's Eve performance at the Black Stallion. But before you rush to phone for reservations, forget it.

The date has been sold out for six weeks. ALSO SOLD OUT is the Holiday Inn South 's New Year's Eve party in its Solar Dome. Besides a miniature golf course, swimming pool, and volleyball facilities, a band and buffet will be provided for the Dome's 500 occupants. Bogart's Cafe Americain cele- January 10 at the Mediterranean Supper Club. The original Ink Spots are no longer singing, age and death having taken their toll.

The group appearing at the Mediterranean is one of a number of acts licensed to use the Ink Spots' name and material. ACROSS CHESTER ROAD from the Mediterranean both the Santa Fe room and the Red Dog Saloon will host New Year's Eve celebrations. The Christian Brothers, a vocal trio from beautjful downtown St. Bernard, are appearing at the Santa Fe now through January 3. Ron Stewart who is practically a permanent fixture at the Red Dog will oversee the pub's New Year's Eve party.

Raquel Welch closes her extravaganza engagement at Beverly Hills brates its first New Year's Eve with Big-City Bob and his Ballroom Gliders. The group will also perform January 2 and 3. Billed as presenting music from the 1920s through the 1970s, Big-City Bob and company use potted palms, pinstripe suits, and bubble machines to recreate the aura of a 1920 hotel band. For New Year's Eve, Bogarts' management may turn on its wide-screen TV to present another 1920s hotel band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians. La Bagatelle, the Hearth Supper Club's new showroom, also celebrating its first New Year's Eve, will present Frank Fontaine.

Crazy Guggenheim in the defunct Jackie Gleason show, Fontaine will be accompanied throughout his engagement, now through January 3, by the Bossa Nostra Quintet. TWENTY MINUTES north of the Hearth is Dayton's Jazz club, Gilly's. The room's bookings are not secure as yet for the week of Christ mas, but pianist Ahmad Jamal. who has performed at numerous Cincinnati clubs and jazz festivals, will bring his quartet in for five nights, Tuesday December 30 through January 3. Cincinnati's recently remodeled and reopened Playboy Club will present two acts, Madhouse Company of London, a group of satirists, and the music of Ecstasy for New Year's Eve.

Madhouse is appearing now through January 3. Ecstasy's engagement starts Monday and runs through January 17. The New Year's Eve package the Netherland Hilton Hotel is presenting resembles last year's. Return appearances will be made by the original Casinos of "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" fame, the Carl Dob-kins Jr. Band, Carl Edmondson's Driving Winds, and Haymarket Riot.

Added to this year's bill are: guitarist Lonnie Mack and Friends; and Cannon with Vickie Taylor. If spending New Year's Eve with an intimate gathering of 16,000 rock fans sounds interesting, then Riverfront Coliseum is the place to inter 1975 and welcome 1976. BILLED AS the First Annual New Year's Eve Feast and Celebration, the evening will feature the Marshall Tucker Band, the Charlie' Daniels Band, the Outlaws, and Chuck Berry. The first two groups last appeared in Cincinnati at Sep-. tember's Miami River Music Festival.

The Outlaws, Southern-roc'k purveyors like the Marshall TUckef. and Charlie Daniels Bands, opened the Doobie Brothers' Coliseum concert in October. Chuck Berry has been in jack since its inception. When he started playing, the idiom was called rock' and roll. His peers were groups like the Coasters, the Shirelles, and Bill.

Haley and the Comets. A list. of Berry's hits sounds like the repertoire of a 1950's rock and roll "Roll Over Beethoven;" "Rock, and Roll Music;" "School Days;" and "Johnny B. Goode." Drug Appeal Pending, Bam THE The Cincinnati Playhouse in the park PSYCHIC So Mitchell Courts Cabarets Recdrd Royalties Go To City NEW YORK (AP) Terry Cashman and Tommy West's "A Friend Is Dying," released in 1972 as part of their "American City Suite," will be the first single release on Lifesong Records. Also, all artists', royalties from it will be donated to New York.

Cashman said, "Many disc jockeys are playing the song in conjunction with editorial statements about New York's problems." DOT 7TttA aawBf feel comfortable with audiences, either, and he realizes now that the FORUM Prpsonts CHARLES J. WILLIAMS olffiSHH-Qb ON STAGE discomfort showed. "I really didn't I have an open ness on stage, he said recently by telephone. "With a trio, the energy I CHIIWEN'S IfT uni in aw starts between the members on --rr Last stage. Alone, all your openness has Psychic and Author of the popular poperbocli boot.

WHY HAVE PROBLEMS? Avoilablp at Book Market, Dawn of Light. Kidd's, Little Protestor, New World, Poque's and Walden books PSYCHIC SEMINAR For informotion phone: 251-2800 Performance I MATINEE! SANTA IN PFRRAN I 'WfaW to be right there. LY 6PeaiON6 I FREE CANDY! JX "THE OTHER rKUHLEM was that it was the wrong time to do I ULSEATS7SC "PUFFNSTUF" r. what Twas going. Rock music was really heavy, and there were very I LAST DAY few places to play my kind of music It was only when the cabaret scene came back that I could.

I didn't really know where I fit." Audiences are ready now for By JOHN ROCKWELL N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Back at the height of the 1960s folk craze, when the movement's impetus had been polished into Simon and Garfunke-lisms, the Chad Mitchell Trio was one of the most popular groups. Today, the group is best known because of the fact that, when Mitchell left it in 1965, he was replaced by the then-unknown John Denver. MITCHELL LEET to pursue a solo career, but things didn't go well for him. And two years ago, they went downright poorly: he was arrested and convicted of smuggling 480 pounds of marijuana from Mexico into Texas.

The case is currently being appealed, on constitutional grounds, but if Mitchell loses, he says he would mostly likely have to serve between 18 and 26 months. All of which would be only marginal human-interest value, except for the fact that Mitchell has chosen this winter to make a return to public performing. He is currently ensconsed at the Ballroom, a cabaret-restaurant at 458 West Broadway In Manhattan through January; and he's terrific. After Mitchell went out on his own, he evolved tentatively in a continental-cabaret direction, but the time wasn't right. And he didn't folky cabaret artists, and Mitchell is about the best that this observer has heard on that circuit.

He tempers the artinciallty or that genre with a lolkish naturalness, yet delivers his songs with a smooth professional ism ana siyie, amy DacKed by a pianist and percussionist. Given his legal situation, Mitch ell is not making long-range career plans at the moment. But he admits happily to feeling better about per- iorming than he ever did before. Riverfront Coliseum "I think I still have a lot of work to do," he says. FIRST ANNUAL "But I can honestly say that.

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