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The Arizona Republic elevisioB 7 Sammy Davis And Friends In Special Special to The Republic "Sammy and His Friends," an hour-long musical variety special in color starring Sammy Davis, with a supporting cast of Frank Sinatra, Edie Adams, Joey Heatherton and Count Basie and his orchestra, will be presented on ABC-TV Phoenix, Sunday, Jan. 30, 16 on Golden Globe Awards v. S. :r.v Tt i-' Tuesday. "Sammy and His Friends" with William B.

Williams as announcer, is aptly titled. Even the "Friends" are friends. Sammy is one of Williams' Inn or.t i a ra1e That fiionHeViirt Andy Williams will host the 23rd annual Golden Globe Awards presentations tomorrow night on NBC. The Holly-wood Foreign Press Assoc. will name the winners of the best show, actor and actress on television.

Motion picture awards also will be presented. 1 1 111! 11 jy 1 began when Sammy was part 'i nf tha Will Mciolin Trin "Hd i 1 UiV 'T 111 lUUllll 111U, llV had that kind of all-around talent that made it obvious he'd reach top stardom," Williams said in retrospect. V' vi Davis Yfrt, (TV William friendship with Sinatra goes back to the days ,7 1 if i Tt ffi j. "7 6 when the voice had teenagers swooning, screaming and packing the Paramount Theater in New York City. He was one of those admiring youngsters.

"I was in high school then. I liked the way he sang so I went backstage to meet him and tell him how much I enjoyed his singing." Later, when Williams became a disc jockey and one of the best -known voices in radio, he originated the descriptive phrase "Chair- Sinatra man of the Board Alfrrd Lunt and Lynn Fontannc appear in "'The Ianificrnt Vank.reM porlrajinj; Snpn-mo Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife Fanny in the ''Hallmark Hall of Fame" on XBC today 'Gary Moore's People Poll' for Siruitrvj wwmwv -tm i it. Ml- 1 I i A inougn vvniiam Knows luie 9i jz Adams, he's known her husband. Marty Mills, longer. Being a veteran disc spinner, he also has a warm relationship with Count Basie.

i Williams has only recently met Joey Heatherton. But years ago he was the radio announcer for her father, Ray Heatherton, and his band. Highlights of the program include a Davis-Sinatra med 1 asie ley, singing such standards as 10 1'ollv 1m rt and John Kailt head the cast on the MJC Hell Telephone Hour's tune-filled pro pram dedieated to the music of composer Ceorpe (ierhwim. Diahann Carroll and Andre I'revin also appear. Gary Moore return to television Friday after an 18-month absence to star in an ABC color special which will take a light-hearted look at the average American and how he feels on a variety of subjects.

The "Gary Moore People Poll" is an attempt at a unique entertainment-documentary, which will present the pride of Baltimore in the role of an inquiring reporter who is interested in the human side of the American people what they think, say and do, and how the individual American's habits and feelings stack up against tha national average. The show has been designed so as to give viewers a chance to find out how much they know about the popular scene TV, music, movies, styles, dance crazes to check themselves against the national averages in terms of the kinds of homes, jobs or families they have, to learn, In an entertaining way, things about themselves which could surprise them. "Four or Five Times," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "I Got It Bad," "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams," "Take the A Train" and "Look At Me Now." Among Sammy's featured solos are "In the Still of the Night" and "This Was Mv Love." Edie Adams sings "My Man" I in the Helen Morgan manner tf: K-i and Joey Heatherton is spotlighted singing and dancing lirtlii'nij 1 "Fascinatm' Rhythm. "Sammy and His Friends" by Joe Hamilton, with Clark FaVw was produced A. 1 Moore interviews a IVew York Policeman for a section of his People Poll Jones as director and Lester Wilson as KPAZ to Be First in Two Valley TV Categories, Fourth Network i mi -m faint i.i ft3fgmmia 5 j.

1 I I ties of the Latin American entertainment industry, movies and continuing dramatic series much like the U.S. soap operas (they are very popular with the Latin audiences, too). THERE ARE Spanish-language TV stations in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Denver, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Fresno, and Oakland, to name a few. Phoenix will be next. Don Thompson, president of Spanish-Language Television of Arizona, is enthusiastic about the coming of Spanish-language TV programming to Phoenix.

He and his associates have been working on the idea since early I9')l He said it would be a new experience in several ways: "Because it will bring the finest television programs from Latin America to the 150,000 Spanish-speaking people in the Phoenix area." "BECAUSE IT WILL deliver an appreciative and loyal audience to the retail advertisers in the Phoenix area." "Because it will demonstrate the effectiveness of the latest in modern automated equipment." As is the usual case with projects involving intricate equipment, delivery delays hinder completion. But, said Thompson, KPAZ is tentatively set to begin telecasting around I. a 'nor Da v. By EDWARD W. HEATH Republic Television Writer When KPAZ-TV begins operations later this year it will be Phoenix' first Spanish-language television station, first ultra-high-frequency (UHF) station and fourth network station.

KPAZ will transmit its programs on UHF signal, channels 14 through 85, as opposed to very-high-frequency (VHF), which are channels 2 through 13. Although most sets in the Valley are equipped to receive only VHF signals, it is possible to purchase a converter which will allow the set to receive UHF7 telecasts. BUT IT SHOULDN'T be more than two to four years before the majority of Phoenix homes have UHF-VHF sets due to the lflfiH "all-channel" law passed by the federal government. This stipulated that all new TV receivers shipped in interstate commerce after March 30, 19G4 must have UHF receiving equipment. A wide diversity of Spanish-language programming is available for showing in Phoenix.

KPAZ has an agreement with the Spanish International Network of Los Angeles, New York and Mexico City to choose any of its shows. The shows include bullfights (which will be done in F.nglish for Sunday broadcasts), boxing (which the U.S. networks nn longer offer), variety programs fp.T'iring tho top personali Donald Duck dances while the Araquan Bird plays the guitar in a sequence of the animated musical fantasy, "Music for Everybody" today on "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" over NBC. Dinah Shore, organist Ethel Smith, Nelson Eddy and Benny Coodman and hi hand will provide miiic. "Anything you can do I can do better," robot member of the CHS "Lost in Space" eat seems to be sa)iri to Hilly Mumy in a battle of bubble jjum.

The robot has lwfn adopted as ma-eot for the "Lost in Spare" rlub at etwood campus in SsXii1; nFT JFi i irr oo fTl $ic Will IrSy I'1' it doctor "Hera ihe ieleprompter for 'Lamp Unto My Feet' is being.