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Sunday Nwi Journal, Wilmington, July 9, 1978 New record releases in review D-4 Mullinax On Music lv The Associated Prese The Mlewlm are Billboard's hot record hits lor the week entfine July IS at they aeeeer In next week's issue ot Bllleeerd meeailno. HOT SINGLES 1. "Shadow Dancina" Anv Gibe (RSO) "Beaer Street" Gerry Rafferty (United Artists) 3. "Teke A Chance On Me" Abbe (Atlantic) 4. "Uie Ta Be My Girl" O'Jevs (Philadelphia International) 5.

"Still The Same" lab Sever (Capitol) "Mlti You" Pater Brown (Drive) 7. "The Groove Line" Heatweve Epic) I. "Dance With Me" Peter Brown (Drive) "If A Heartache" Bonnie Tyler (P.CA) 10. "Lest Dance" Donna Summer (Catablan-ca) II. "Grease" Frankie Valll (KSO) It.

"Bluer Then Blue" Michael Johnson (EMI-Americe) 13. "Two Out Ot Three Ain't Bad" Meat Loal (Cleveland International) 14. "Love Will Find A Way" Pablo Cruise (AIM) 15. "Runaway" Jefferson Stershle (Grunt) "Wonderful Tonleht" Eric Clapton (RSO) 17. "Cooacabena" Barry Manilow (Arista) 11.

"I Cant Stand The Rein" Eruption (Arlole-Hansa) 19. "Lite's Been Goad" Joe Walsh (Asylum) 10. "Hot Blooded" Foreigner Atlentic) 1. "The Album" Abba (Atlantic) 1 7. "Street Legal" Sob Dylan (Columbia) 11 "FM" soundtrack (MCA) H.

"Octave" -Moody Blues (London) -JO. "It's A Heertache" Bonnie Tyler (RCA). COUNTRY SINGLES I. "Only One Love In My Life" Ronnie Mllsao (RCA) J. "There Alnt No Good Chain Gang" Johhrjv Cash A Wavlon Jennings (Columbia) 3.

"Love Or Something Like It" Kenny Rogers (United Artists) 4. "I Believe In Tlllis (MCA) 5. "Tonight" Barbara MandrelK ABC) i "You Don't Love Ma Anymore" Eddie Rebbltt(Elektra) 7. "When Can We Do This Again" T. Shepperd (Werner-Curb) I.

"Pittsburgh Stealers" The Kendalls (Ovation) 9. "Never My Love" Verm Gosdln (Elektra) 10. "Talking In Your Sleep" Crystal Gayle (United Artists) EASY LISTENING t. "If Ever I See You Again" Roberta Flack (Atlantic) I. "Bluer Then Blue" Michael Johnson (Capitol) 3.

"Songbird" Barbra Streisand (Columbia) 4. "You're The Love" Seals A Crofts (Warner Bros.) 5. "Evan Now" Barry Manilow (Arista) 0. "Cocacabana (At the Copal" Barry low (Arista) 7. "You Belong To Me" Carly Simon (Elek-tra) I "My Angel Baby' Toby Beau (RCA) "Baker Street" Gerry Raffertv (United Artists) 10.

"You Needed Me" Anne Murray (Capitol) future, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be. This is late-'70s pop, mostly the variety known as power-pop. You'll also hear a lot of mid-'60s pop here, since that period is the reference point for many of the new bands. Well, we can't really call the Flamin' Groovies new. The group started out in San Francisco only shortly after the British invasion of 1964 and 1965.

The boys were playing British invasion style then (Beatles, Hollies, Zombies, Kinks) and they have been ever since, although rarely to anybody who cared. Well, their day is coming. Since the group, perhaps out of furstra-tion over its lack of acceptance, developed a sort of surly stance that predated the punk and to some extent the whole new wave stance, the new-wavers like them. If the Groovies need the new wave, so does the new wave need the Groovies, since the new thing these days is the combination of new-wave energy and mid-'60s pop sensibility, known in combination as power-pop. Dave Edmunds, one of the British new-wave godfathers (Nick Lowe is another), produced this album, and it will make you feel just as good as the Beatles or the Hollies did in 1965.

Vocal harmonies and ringing guitars are the keys to the sound, although the harmonies do sometimes turn a bit sour. There is an occasional foray into a '50s rock 'n' roll sound, plus covers of songs by the Beatles, the Stones and even the Byrds, America's first valid answer to the new British bands of the mid-'60s. Continued from sity of Delaware's Mitchell Hall Wednesday night. Mann, who learned how to make jazz acceptable to a pop market long before it became fashionable to make the attempt, has had some of the best people in contemporary jazz in his bands over the years. Kenny Loggins, on his own without Jim Messina, will headline at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Wednesday.

He turned in a fine show last fall when he opened for Fleetwood Mac at The Spectrum. The Cars, an exciting new wavepop group with a new record out garnering critical raves, will open. And good old Cheech and Chong, the comedy team, will be at Philadelphia's Bijou Cafe Thursday through Saturday nights. so foreign FOREIGNER. "Double Vision" (Atlantic SD 19999) Foreigner may have the classic mainstream rock sound of the late 1970s.

This group of rock veterans who got together last year is close to the hard-rock extreme of heavy metal, but doesn't quite qualify. Lead singer Lou Gramm does sing at times in that husky, strained, high-register voice made popular by heavy-metalist Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, but he can also ease up. The music on the new album often depends on heavy metal-type guitar riffs, but it rarely slips into the self-induglence that heavy metal seems increasingly capable of (you say you haven't heard Van Halen The guitar work is Pezand is, like the Groovies, an American band that went to England to make an album. And, like the Groovies' record, this one stands at the forefront of the power-pop brigade. This is the second album for Pez-band, a young band which got its start playing in small clubs around Chicago.

The sound here is similar to that of the Groovies, although the Groovies know a few more tricks. Pezband's music is much sparer, featuring only lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, drums and occasional keyboard. Generally, the guitars clang and pull the music along, but do not step to the front for flashy lead work. When there is a lead guitar break, it's on and off in a hurry. The melodic hooks are subtle but constantly present, else why would I sit and listen on and on and on, oblivous to the whine of the dog, the knock on the door and the ringing of the telephone.

The Paley Brothers sound much more American than the other two, which is to say that the refer ence points are more in the neighborhood of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and those wonderful people who gave us Ba-Ba-Ba BaBa-er-Ann. The harmonies are sweeter than those of the other two bands, which might ultimately render this album a shorter-lived pleasure. There is an echo effect reminiscent of the work of Phil Spec-tor, the genius American pop producer who had a lot to do with our memories of the late '50s and early '60s. The Paleys feature a sort oi regular, pounding drum to keep them from floating off into space, but it isn't as riveting as the crisp bat-bat-bat-bat rhythm employed by the Flamin' Groovies and the Pezband. TOP LP'S 1.

"Some Girls" Railing Stones (Atlantic) J. "City To City" Gerry Raftety (United Artists) 3. "Natural Hleh" Commodores (Motown) 4. "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack (RSO) 5. "Stranger in Town" Bob Soger I The Sliver Bullet Bend (Caoltol) "Darkness At The Edge Of Town" Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) 7.

"Shadow Dancing" Andy Glbto (RSO) I. soundtrack (RSO) f. "Feels So Good" Chuck Manglone (AIM) 10. "Boys In The Trees" Carly Simon (Elek tra) II. "Thank God It's Friday" soundtrack (Casablanca) 12.

"But Seriously. Folks" Joe Walsh (Asy lum) 13. "Double Vision" Foreigner (Atlantic) 14. "Songbird" Barbra Streisand (Columbia) 15. "So Full Ot Love" O'Javs (PhiladeoMa International) TODAY AT 5 4 9:15 MATINEES WED SAT.

1 PM SUN-FRI EVES 7:15 4 9:15 SAT EVE 545 JuMwtwnuouthouaht 8 SOUL SINGLES "Close The Door" Teddy Pendergrass (Philadelphia International) 2. "Stuff Like That" Quincy Jones (AIM) 1 3. "You And Rick James (Gordy) i'' 4. "Boogie Oogie Oogie" A Taste Of Honey' (Caoltol) 5. "Runaway Love" Linda Clifford (Curtom), 6.

"Last Dance" Donna Summer (Casablanca) 7. "Three Times A Lady" Commodores (Motown) I. "Use Ta Be My Girl" The O'Jays (Philadelphia International) 9. "Shame" Evelyn Champagne King (RCA)- 10. "Annie Mae" Natalie Cole (Capitol) a2 10:15 INOPASSfS) itwassaktoooback AMMUR! Back from Valley of PLUS "BOBBY DEERFIELD" rj OPENS I 300-AlO I.

CLfVf LAND AVll HIWAK (302) 737-717? 3 "DELIGHTFUL!" Harry Themal, Wilm. News-Journal "TERRIFIC" Rona Barrett, ABC-TV sometimes growly, but other times clear-toned. The synthesizer work is often surprisingly delicate. Certainly, the group is not pop, nor is it new wave: the music is too densely, smoothly textured, too elaborate, for the latter. This album is the follow-up to last year's successful debut record, which featured, among other hits, "Cold as Ice." This one is a bit more sophisticated: most of it is hard rock "Hot Blooded," for instance, a surefire hit single but on songs like "Back Where You Belong" the sound is mellower, like something from the Beatles' late period.

There's some pleasant but uneventful sax work on the ballad "I Have Waited So Long," while "Tramontane" is a densely-textured instrumental that is pleasant enough but doesn't really go anywhere. The group can do many things, some of them quite well, but I suspect if they want to go the superstar, big-concert route they'd better keep close to heavy metal for a while. Pop now FLAMIN' GROOVIES. "Now" (Sire SRK 6059) PEZBAND. "Laughing in the Dark" (Passport 0798) THE PALEY BROTHERS.

"The Paley Brothers" (Sire SRK 6052) i don't know if this is the first step toward the mainstream of the Johansen says a couple weeks later, seated in the Manhattan offices of his manager-record company president, Steve Paul of Blue Sky Records. Johansen's more relaxed than since before the Dolls recorded, and he knows it. "I always knew I'd continue to make records. There were times when I didn't know what to wear, but that's about it." Still, it has been three years since the Dolls flamed out, in a welter of bad debts and ill will. "A solo career could have probably been done earlier if I had gotten around to it," Johansen admits.

"But I didn't want to. It's important to me to be comfortable. It took me a long time to get into a situation where I could have it the way I wanted it. I learned a lot the first time around." One of the things he learned was that he wanted Steve Paul to manage him. "I knew him from Max's Kansas City in the old days.

He loved the Dolls and he'd come to see us, but he couldn't manage us. But I don't know if anybody could've. I just think he's a real good guy. You don't have to sign a contract with him. He's honest, he's a mensch that's important to me.

I have to get along with my manager or I can't do it. "See, with the Dolls, we toured really for about three years. That gets on your nerves after a while. CHORAL ROCK COUNTRY JAZZ SWING CONTEMPORARY TODAY AT 7:30 SHOWS DUS( Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective" (NO PASSES) winning duo. Sun (7:30 UO 00.

S9 00 St 1 SO. $10 50 9 I LAST PERFORMANCE TODAY (2 4 6 p.m DAVID SOUL LEE GUBER AND SHELL GROSS PRESENT: BURT AliTH RACIIARACII IIEWIEY the Dolls Not that you ever notice that it's getting on your nerves, but other people do. And you have to dig yourself every once in a while or else you lose it." Johansen definitely hasn't. The new album not only retains the Dolls' cosmopolitan sense of fun and reckless innocence; it's also much more approachable musically, using Stones-style guitar rather than the Dolls' punkish approach and also incorporating some ballad material. Johansen is receiving more airplay than the Dolls (whom many radio programmers hated) ever did.

In part, of course, that's because the Dolls paved the way for punk, and punk has now returned the favor. Johansen says he's hardly interested in anything recorded right now, but he always says that he "kinda supported" the CBGB's scene in New York, from which punk sprang. "I'm glad a lot of kids got to be in bands," he says. Johansen's new band Johnny Rao and Thomas Trask on guitars, Buz Verno on bass and drummer Frankie LaRocka is from Staten Island, his home borough. "I met Frankie on the ferry.

He said that he wanted to jam, which happens all the time. But Frankie LaRocka's a very sincere guy. So we went over to Buzzy's garage just to sorta belt out tunes." The result was a couple months of woodshedding in clubs, an LP, and Johansen's current tour he's on the West Coast with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the early summer. wvi.v' rv i M0PWR0Ot NEWARK uwiuu-' DELAWARE -i lit i Award By DAVE MARSH On stage in Philadelphia in late May, David Johansen is dressed in solid white, his hair swept back, looking like the Staten Island greaser saint he might have been. Philadelphia doesn't know much about him his old band, the New York Dolls, played the town but once but these kids, come to catch headliner Patti Smith, catch on quick.

As Johansen's new group hits the stage, the hall is nearly empty, the lobby jammed. But before they're halfway through "Funky But Chic," from Johansen's first solo LP, "David the crowd begins b- ctronminrj in bopping down the aisles. Take it as an omen that the Johansen fates, so cruelly indifferent to the special magic of the Dolls, have begun to pay attention. Not that this is a remodeled version of the Dolls. Only guitarist-keyboardist Syl Sylvain, who co-wrote some of "David Johansen's" best songs with David, remains from the old gang, and the new members are almost im mobile, far from the turmoil of the Dolls.

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