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F-12 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Sunday, June 20, 1976 Capitol Album May Fuel Beatles Revival Pop Music if "lrt- dr board's "Top Lps and Tape" chart. "Got to Get You into My Life" is number 29 in the magazine's "Hot 100" list. (Several Cincinnati record stores contacted report that sales for "Rock 'n' Roll Music" are far from brisk.) Beatlemanla II has even spread to the nightclub circuit. Groups specializing In Beatles music are popping up. Rain is one example.

The quartet performs a three-act concert, early Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's, and late Beatles, with Beatles costume changes. RAIN BILLS Its act as "A Tribute to the Beatles." This inspiring line probably came from the group's manager Chet Actis. He Is the man who gave the world Alan "A Tribute to Elvis." Much of this rekindling of interest In the Beatles can be attributed to the successful world tour of Wings, the band headed by onetime Beatles bass guitarist Paul McCartney. Recurrent rumors about the quartet reuniting have also helped Beatlemanla II.

Billy Joel asks on "All You Wanna Do is Dance" from his latest album "Why don't the Beatles get back together?" Promoter Bill Sargent has offered a $50 million guarantee for a sin-gle Beatles reunion concert. McCartney said, after his recent appearance at Riverfront Coliseum, he doesn't "take that offer seriously. "There have always been tremendous offers," McCartney added. "Sid Bernstein (promoter of Beatles concerts during the group's existence) came up with them even when we were together. But, If we were to get back together now, it would be for all the wrong reasons." What Sargent and the people at Capitol forget is that McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison ushered in a musical and social revolution.

That kind of lightening never strikes twice. While millions are waiting to be made on a Beatles reunion, the four would only get together If they had something new to say musically. Obviously they don't. The Beatles quit at the top. Unlike other rock stars, they did not allow tneir group to become creatively senile.

They spared themselves the agony of mounting a yearly tour with an unchanging repertory of greatest hits. Repackaging Beatles records, hoping for a reunion, and imitating By CLIFF RADEL Enquirer Reporter April and May In Britain belonged to the Beatles. During those months, 23 singles by the defunct group made England's Top 100. Can Beatlemanla II happen here? Capitol Records thinks so. The company, which originally released 19 of the Beatles' albums In North America, has Issued a two-record set of the quartet's work.

tHE ALBUM, "Rock 'n' Roll Music," Includes 28 songs. Only one cut, "I'm Down," recorded In the summer of 1965, has never before appeared on an album. To promote the album, Capitol his launched "the largest, most extensive marketing campaign in the history of the company." More than a half a million dollars will be spent hyping "Rock 'n' Roll Music." The album's single, "Got to Get You Into My Life," has "Helter Skelter" on Its flip side. The Inclusion of the latter song was an Indirect result of the sordid activities of the Charles Manson family. THE TELEVISION special about the Manson case, "Helter Skelter," was aired, radio stations across the country reportedly received numerous requests for the Beatle tune.

"Healter (sic) Skelter" was written, by one of the Man-sonites, with the blood of the murdered LaBianca family on the door of the victims' refrigerator. In his opening statement to the court, Vincent Bugliosi, the prose-cutor for the Tate-LaBianca murders case, revealed that Manson Idolized the Beatles. "Manson believed they (the Beatles) were speaking to him across the ocean through the lyrics of their songs," Bugliosi said. "To Charles Manson 'Helter Skelter' meant the black man rising up and destroying the entire white race; that Is, with the exception of Charles Manson and his chosen followers." So, for unreconstructed Manson groupies everywhere, "Helter Skelter" lives. This single, by the way, is the first 45 released under the Beatles name since May 1970.

Devout fans of the four Liverpudians know that that single contained "The Long and Winding Road." Three Beatles albums, the white album, "The Beatles 1962-1966," "The Beatles 1967-1970," are on Bill Before Ended, 1969 when McCartney, Lennon, Starr and Harrison were still Beatles the group smack of artistic necrophilia. If people are hoping different for a revolution of just some different sounding music to provide a momentary escape from the pre vailing boredom of the 1970s, they, won't find it Lennon, and Harrison. Their music" may live on, but the Beatles'time; has passed. Musical Tributes Crown New York Newport Fest Logan Like The River There's No Stopping Him tra will perform with Euble Blake, the 93-year-old ragtime composer-; pianist. Later in the festival, Basle will, give a free concert at the World Trade Center to celebrate the na-, tion's Bicentennial on July 4.

THE LAST EVENT at Waterloo'-Village is a "Jazz picnic" on June Earl "Fatha" Hlnes, Pee Wee Erwirj' and Teddy Wilson will perform. Other artists appearing during the 10-day festival Include Anthony, Braxton, McCoy Tyner, Elvtn Keith Jarrett, Frank Newman', Frank Foster, Sonny Payne, Eddi-Jones, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey, Horace Silver Joe Williams, Sarah Vaughan, Starts Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy-Rich, Kenny Burrell and Mercer-, Ellington. the Azucena Edo Flamenco Dance Group. And a Radio City Music Hall concert salute to the Rev. John Gensel, pastor to the Jazz community, will also honor Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who recently suffered a stroke but has been able to resume his career.

A portion of the proceeds from the show will be donated to Kirk for his medical expenses. THREE EVENTS will be held outside New York City at Waterloo Village in Stanhope, N.J., a canal town of preserved 18th and 19th century structures. The first program to be held there June 26 is a gospel picnic, featuring choirs and gospel performers from the New York-New Jersey area. That evening, the State of New Jersey will honor Its native son, Count Basie. Basle and his orches NEW YORK (AP) From a four-part salute to the late Duke Ellington to the electronic Jazz of Billy Cobham and the George Duke Band, the Newport Jazz Festival will be a musical mix of Jazz sounds old and new.

THE 10-DAY FESTIVAL begins Friday, June 25, with Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, and closes July 5 with the swinging dance music of Cootie Williams, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Zoot Sims and other jazz greats of that era at the Roseland Ballroom. In between Is a jazz "who's who," Including musical tributes to the late saxophonists Julian "Cannon-ball" Adderley and John Coltrane. Last year pianist Thelonlous Monk came out of retirement to play at the festival. This year, guitarist Tal Farlow has shed his retirement to perform. "The Newport Jazz Festival has always presented a good cross-section of Jazz," says festival producer George Wein.

"This year we're trying to stock with as many pure Jazz groups as possible. Last year we mixed in a few commercial groups, and the audience didn't like it." WEIN PREDICTS the 1976 production will be one of the best years for the festival because of the diversity of the artists. "We've found such a great spirit of cooperation with the musicians," he said. "They want to do something special this year." For example, bass player Charlie Mingus, who has fallen in love with flamenco music, will perform with tnechnical dolls and the Degas painting hanging over the fireplace, he continues: "ALSO, I WANT to do one of the plays Nedda's father did. He was the Harrigan of the song, you know." double-r spells Harrigan," he sings softly.

"In the 1890s, visitors to New York City felt they had to visit two places," he says, "the Statue of Liberty, which was new then, and Harrigan's theater on the Bowery, which was a relatively old institution. And the old Harrigan material is still playable." "I'm also working on a word-byword translation of the opera, "Carmen," an old favorite of mine, into English," he continues. "There's just no really singable version of it in English." IN ADDITION LOGAN says he's directing a two-hour TV special of "Mr. Roberts," which he co-authored with Thomas Hegan and directed on Broadway. The 25-year-old play has become a kind of perennial which Logan revives every few years in one form or another, genrally with great success.

"IE YOU LOSE your zest, there's just nothing left," he says. "The theater takes everything you've got. There are 18,000 members of Actors Equity today. Only 2,000 of them are working. Thousands of members, kids, old people, middle aged people, are simply hanging around barely existing.

To succeed, you need Inhuman drive. If anything can stop you, you ought to let it." By'JUDSON HANI) New York News NEW YORK Josh Logan, whc directs hits on stage and screen as consistently as Babe Ruth hit home rurts, stares out of the bedroom of his wife, Nedda, at the East River. He's always been fascinated with the way the sheen of the water changes minute by minute. Far from being in a rut at age of 67 Logan is like the river, always changing, never stopping. Now he wants to talk about the future.

Nostalgia trips can come later. "I'm planning to do an old time burlesque show on Broadway," he announces. "YOU REMEMBER those scenes the baggy pants comics did so well," he without taking his eyes off the river. "Done well, they are immortal comedy. Well, my friend, Ralph Alden, a professor at the University of Tennessee, owns a collection of those scenes several feet high.

Together, we'll bring back burlesque. Mostly the comedy, but we won't ignore sex completely either." THE WALLS OF LOdAN'S 10- roa'm flat are covered with show biz pictures from Logan's long career. Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and Mary Martin and their like stare from every wall even In bathrooms. "Logan eases himself into a huge Napoleon III sofa, swings his legs abroad and reclines like Roman emperor. Then, after a brief look at his world famous collection of POUN CINCINNATI ENTERTAi mp lib? mi! mnfm INTERSTATE 75 DONALDSON ROAD EXIT ERLANGER, KENTUCKY TEL.

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