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Floyd Huddiesforr Turns 'Love7 into Oscar Bid liL Jlv Nancy Adams, Floyd Huddleston forest, "it seems like only yesterday you were a child at' play "Now you're all grown up inside of me, "Oh, how fast these moments flee. "Once we watched a lazy cloud go by, "Now the days seem to fly Miss Adams performs "Love" in the film and on the soundtrack album, which she said is the first Disney children's recording to have hit the pop charts. "A Nashville Nightingale" is how musician and "Robin Hood" score contributor Johnny Mercer described Miss Adams, a regular featured performer with former Nashvillian Phil Harris' Las Vegas show. Actually the pert blond hails from just over the. line at Fulton, Ky.

A veteran commercial singer for Ford, Kraft and for two years as the Newport Cigarette girl, she was choral director for Neil Diamond's Carnegie Hall concert and has done arrangements for a number of television movies and shows with Perry Como, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme and Frank Sinatra. Her husband, in fact, penned words and music for the recently unretired Sinatra's soon-to-be-released single "I'm Gonna Make It All The Way." "We're trying to negotiate a publishing deal where I own part of it and Sinatra owns part of it," Huddleston explained of the new firm he hopes to launch. "It's in the talking stage." The songwriter-singer couple moved here about two years ago and now maintain homes in Nashville and California. They left this weekend for the West Coast to continue his work on Disney's "The Rescuers." "It's about these two animals," Huddleston explained of the animated feature. "One is Louis Prima he's the polar bear and Redd Foxx is the lion.

They're buddies. They live in a zoo. Louis Prima is the entertainer; he does shows every day for the children. "Louis gets cornered into leaving and going to the South Pole where he can make himself a bigger star. But he gets homesick; he feels fooled.

They send out little mice as Huddleston came close to an Oscar nomination for his 1970 work in Disney's "The Aristo-cats." Named as one of 10 possible nominees, he fell short of the final five nominations. The "Robin Hood" score was a joint effort of Bruns, Mercer and Nashvillian turned Californian Roger Miller, who also supplied the voice for the rooster minstrel Allan a Dale. Writing for animated films "gives you more latitude," Huddleston said, "but it also puts a strain on your imagination. You just about have to write the story line as well. Animation is the very last thing they do." By TOM ROGERS Floyd Huddleston treated "Love" like the third corner of the triangle when he put the words to Richard Bruns' music for Walt Disney Productions' "Robin Hood." But he won't treat it that way come Oscar night April 2 when his work has a one-in-five chance of becoming the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Song of the Year.

Huddleston and his singer-wife Nancy Adams were in Nashville last week to put some finishing touches on his "Robin Hood" followup album at Woodland Studios and to record her new single at Roy Orbison's U.S. Recording Studios to place in New York agent Jerry PureeU's hands. The album, "King Louis and Robin Hood," uses Louis Prima as narrator, Huddleston said, and will soon be released on Disney's Vista label. "I wrote a few more songs plus I used three existing songs that were not used in 'Robin he explained. "I treated 'Love' like a person almost," the songwriter said of "Robin Hood," which he reported has broken attendance records at New York's Music Hall Theater.

"I went at it in the third person. Maid Marian hadn't seen Robin Hood in many years, since they were children. So the idea was that love still existed but it was different." "Love," sings Miss Adams as Marian and Robin romp through Disney's animated Advocates Debate No-Fault Divorce were established in the 18th century, that divorce should be "difficult" to obtain so that partners cannot treat marriage as a "trial" marriage; and that divorce laws should stress the continuance of marriage in case the couple has children. Witnesses for Davis' arguments include physician Dr. Dorothy Brown and Judge William R.

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