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December 3 1 1983" Tony Joe White Looks produce her, following' her return from a Dutch tour. CMA Entertainers of the Year Alabama are up for four American Music Awards. They'll perform their new single Roll On (their first trucking song) live on the telecast Jan. 16, the date of the release of their fifth LP. 20th Century-Fox is reportedly developing both of songwriter Paul Kennerlcy's concept LPs White Mansions and The Legend of Jesse James into a theatrical musical, with an eye toward a film treatment in the future.

Gaylord Broadcasting has decided to phase out its movie production unit, evidently to put more of its weight behind TV's Hee Haw and the Opry land complex it acquired in Nashville this year. Daily Variety also reports that the firm recently invested $1,000,000 in an unsuccessful London musical Marilyn! As reported last week, Billboard's 1 country hit of 1983 is Jose Cuervo by Shelly West, followed by Ronnie McDowell's You're Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation. By contrast. Radio Records' top-5 of the year are: 1. Islands In the Stream Rogers Parton; 2.

He's a Heartache Fricke; 3. Dixieland Delight Alabama; 4. Hey Bartender Lee; 5. Pancho Lefty Haggard Nelson. The 1983 Wrangler Country Showdown winners The John Arnold Band will be on the clothier's float in The Cotton Bowl Parade.

The Grammy Awards (228 84) in L.A. will again be hosted by John Denver. Patti Page is being inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. WZEZ radio's Buzz Benson 2 Stott photo by Billy tosley Singer Andy King's long campaign for U.S. citizenship ends as he signs the appropriate papers in Nashville's Federal Courthouse, with the help of clerk Joyce Voorfries, left.

The former Australian star has been deported three times for improper work papers during his years of effort to make it in America. Stoney Mountain Cloggers, Roy Acuff, Billy Crammer, Connie Smith. J3ck Greene, Hank Snow, Teddy Wilburn, Riders in the Sky, Carlisles, Jeannie Seely, Ray Pillow, Just in Tubb. 77TTT 7T LADIES DOUBLE DISCOUNT THE TENNESSEAN, Soturdoy, Ch. 39 Finally On the Air By DIANE BARTLEY After months of anticipation, WFYZ-Channel 39 finally took to the air yesterday, bringing with it a.

new "television alternative" for. Middle Tennesseans. ign-on came at approximately 5 p.m., as Jim Bakker and the "PTL Club" broke into the test patterns which had been sneaking onto the screen sporadically throughout the afternoon. "I'M RELIEVED," said Channel 39 general-manager Carlo Arineke, who has masterminded the problem-plagued sign-on for the past three months. "But I'm really too tired to celebrate." Anneke said initial reports show the independent UIIF signal is being picked up across the Middle Tennessee area, but engineers will be "fine tuning" the picture throughout the next 10 days.

i Although Channel 39 studios and offices are headquartered in Murfreesboro. and the antenna and tower in Gladeville, station Owners have said the signal should be strong and easily picked up by most Metro Nashville TV viewers. THOSE HAYING trouble receiving the signal may need to adjust their outdoor UIIF antenna. Viacom cable subscribers will see a crystal clear picture by tuning their converter box dial to Channel 30. Channel 39 eventually will be shown on Viacom's Channel 31, but Viacom general manager Jim Stewart said yesterday the Federal Communications Commission has not yet given the cable company permission to use Channel 31 in that manner.

Channel 30 has been cleared, however, and will serve as temporary home for the new channel. (A third independent station, WCAY-Channel 30. is scheduled to-" premiere in Nashville in mid-February.) -ACCORDING TO Anneke. the station will not operate on its usual schedule during the first week to 10 days to allow time for performance tests required by the Federal Communications Commission. Instead, he said, the plan js to sign on at 7 a.m.

tomorrow and at noon Monday through Friday next week. When the station begins its full schedule, sign-on will be at 6 a.m. each morning with live satellite broadcasts from "Biznet." a financial news network equivalent. Anneke said, to "reading the Wall Street Journal every morning." Sign-off will be at midnight. Following is the first week's schedule, according to Anneke: TODAY: Noon Gomer Pyle 12:30 p.m.

Hogan's Heroes I p.m. Movie How To Stuff a Wild Bikini 3 p.m. Movie Yog: Monster From Space 5 p.m. Buck Rogers 6 p.m. Hawaii Five-0 7 p.m.

Movie Games, with James Caan 4-D- (Continued from page 1-D) bia Records, is a bit of a departure as an album in that it features some of his love songs. "I always had these little type things that I would write. But I never could get them recorded. Nobody wanted me to sing 'em. But to me, these are things from the man's standpoint." THAT'S TRUE: Lyrics like Lady In My Life and You Just Get Better All the Time say the tender kinds of things men wish they could say, but often can't.

The LP also includes the naughty-but-nice Do You Have a Garter Belt? (the new single), Dangerous and Naughty Lady. White's own favorite on the disc is the romantic, swaying samba-beat Down By the Border, also a somewhat different sound for him. Humble, honest, direct White doesn't label the new style, but he's glad that the country field has become broad enough to accept his distinctive brand of Southern music. After many years as Memphians, he and his beloved Leann relocated their family to Music City this year. "She's been wanting to do this longer than I have.

I just didn't think it was the type of town for me to be in and for my kind of music. Because you know I play a lot of funk, a lot of'bluesy stuff. But the last three years this town has got It'll listen to blues, rock, pop, country: It's gonna be the biggest music industry thing in the whole world in the next five got right to move." HE'S A great music man in a great music town. But you won't find Tony Joe White out in some Belle Meade mansion in Nashville. You'll see him on the streets, in clubs, and around the town, sharing his special, courtly, modest nature with his new neighbors.

Nashville notes: Rhinestone-bedecked Sorter Wagoner will ring in the New Year on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry tonight with balloons, noise-makers, and such. Oklahoma singer songwriter Becky Hobbs returned from her Swiss tour in time to put her pretty hand to a Capitol Records contract this week. Blake Mevis is likelv to 9 p.m. Hogan's Heroes 9:30 p.m. Gomer Pyle 10 p.m.

)Movie Junior Bunner. with Steve McQueen SUNDAY: 7 a.m. Editor's Choice (INN Public Affairs) 7:30 a.m. Petticoat Junction 8 a.m. Bible Pathways 9 a.m.

W.V. Grant Religion 10 a.m. Hollywood Christmas Parade Noon Star for Jeremy (animated children's adventure) 12:30 p.m. Inspector Gadget 1 p.m. Batman I 1:30 p.m.

Batman II 2 p.m. Movie Miracle on 34th Street FALL WINTER SHOE CLEARANCE 'Avant-Garde' Films Slated at World's End Below Our Everyday Low Discount Prices Famous Brands Galore! Great Yellow Tag Selections will host "Easyland Bandstand" from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. tonight, playingbig band dance music from Glenn Miller to Larry LI-gart. On the Opry tonight: Four Guys, Wilma Lee Cooper, Stonewall Jackson, Jean Shep-ard.

Grandpa Jones, Jimmy C. Newman, Jim Jesse, Del Wood, Jan Howard, Porter Wagoner, Roy Drusky, Charlie Louvin, Jeanne Pruett, Crook Brothers, during the screenings. The Jan. 2 program will include Andy Warhol's 1967 "Exploding Plastic Inevitable," the legendary Velvet Underground rock group and Warhol regulars Paul Morrissey and Gerard Valango. There will be no cover charge for "Independent Film two showings are slated each Monday at 8 and 10 p.m.

6 p.m. Joker's Wild 6:30 p.m. Laugh-In 7 p.m. Movie 9 p.m. Gomer Pyle 9:30 p.m.- In Search 10 p.m.

Saturday Night 10:30 p.m. Petticoat Junction 1 1 p.m. Jim Bakker Show Midnight Sign-Off The only variation in the Monday-Friday schedule will be the 7 p.m. movie title. The following movies andor sports are scheduled: Monday, "Last Valley" with Michael Caine; Tuesday, "Kotch" with Walter Matthau; Wednesday, Basketball, Memphis State at Univerity of Cincinnati; Thursday, "What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice" with Ruth Gordan and Geraldine Page; Friday, "The Reivers" with Steve McQueen.

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Parade 6 p.m. Lawrence Welk 7 p.m. Movie Stepford Wives 9 p.m. Pensacola Christian College Religion 10 p.m. Hogan's Heroes 10:30 p.m.

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