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fHE ROCKLAND CUUNI1 JOURNAL -NEWS 11 MUSIC Rock Groups Continue Western Invasion NYACK, N. SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1969 and Jim Messina, two by Richie Furey members of EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the first of a four-part Saturday feature series by Mike Jahn on the West Coast rock scene. By MIKE JAHN LOS ANGELES (PSS) Rock groups continue to go west despite the death of psychedelic music. The heavily publicized boom in West Coast rock two years ago produced a migration of rock musicians from all over the country to California. Some of them are just beginning toebe heard.

Others have made an Important impression on a scene that influences pop music everywhere. Settling in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the new rock musicians are playing all imaginable forms of rock'n'roll, hoping that their particular form will patch on. The San Francisco scene centers around the blues. In Los Angeles the focal point is country and Western. AS ONE ROCK musician said, "You go 20 miles out of L.A.

and you're In Okie country. There are all these people who moved to California in tJie 30s a la Woodie Guthrie." Turn on (he television set and you can find several country programs. As country music creeps more and more into current rock, It's not surprising to find so much of the L.A. music scene embracing It. FOGO IS A GOOD, solid band formed Springfield.

They play firm but light rock, in the Springfield style, with precise vocals, well thought out. They are very much like the honestly lamented Springfield outfit but they are much more into country and hard rock sounds, loud and driving and having that country twang. THE FLYING Burrito Brothers Is built around three ex-Byrds: Chris Hielman, Gram Parsons and Mike Clarke. They play pure country music with the same tight harmony the Byrds had on their recent country and western album, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo." In appearances this month at Steve Paul's Scene, a major New York City rock showcase, the Burritos displahed a great sense of polished country music. Their sound is exciting and real, not quite as rough-hewn as a lot of country music, but still very good.

DILLARD AND CLARK and the Expedition has that rough-hewn feel. Formed by Doug Dillard, former leader of the bluegrass singing family, the Dil-lards, and Gene Clark, another ex-Byrd, the outfit has created a true bluegrass sound and mixed it with some good rock and folk Ideas. Delaney and Bonny are two white v- Jl The Pogos become centers of rock residences In the L.A. area. Los Angeles may be caught between the landslides and the oil slicks, but Its rock is still holding on fairly well.

FART TWO: Rock artiste like to live and work at home. The Asylum Choir, a rock duo, converted their modest L.A. home Into a complete recording studio. How they live and work. Southerners who sing with a great soul feel, in the manner of Ike and Tina Turner.

They record for Elektra and their album is due in a few weeks. Now that Los Angeles has become the adopted home of so many rock artists, the city's much needed recording studios (San Francisco has few) are getting a lot of action, making L.A. one of the major recording capitals. Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills and Topanga Canyon near the coast have Dillard and Clark Remembers Days When Bands Were Big THEATRES AMPLE PARKING BHV T.303 SPRING VALUY, N. HYACK nROCKLANDT I I II i You just can't keep a gooa -4 fU "nnAMii a HAS RISEN 4 FROM THE ML tlVflPK MM IMNKINITIW MIITI Tij-.

1 BflpK! AMflB ft fMMUMTUN COMQUUI TNI 19-1 TtCHNfCOtW Si CHRISTOf HIM III Monroe der what all the fuss is about, ask your mom if she was one of the teen-agers In the mid-405 who went girlishly ga ga over Monroe and helped his rapid popularity rise become a dance band phenomenon. FROM THE TIME he organized his band on April 10, 1940, at the 10 Acres restaurant In Wayland, to the time he played the Paramount Theater in New York City and Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook in New Jersey both considered the pinnacle of success in the big band era only 11 months had transpired. noon. noum 303 Drive-ln 17 DRIVE-IN ORANGEBURG, N. V.

N. 1 Elmwood 9-7021 MT.HiO Home Video Views the now defunct Buffalo instrumental.1! "Take It, Jackson," "Harvard Square," ''Health, Wealth and Love" and '1 1 Be Some Changes Made," the last being the only record on which he- over played trumpet, and it was Dixieland style at that. WHILE THE BIG band era ended in the late 40s, it was not the end of Monroe. "I made my reputation as a singer instead of as a trumpet player, so I was able to survive the onslaught of vocal records, when the radio disc jockeys clamped down on the record companies," he said. "In 1943 the average record lasted between 3 and VA minutes, but the disc jockeys demanded that they be cut back to under 2V minutes so they (the deejays) could play more records and still get their commercials into a 15-wlnute air segment.

This meant that a band coudn't play much more than an introduction for the singer. Since you couldn't hear the band, it didn't matter if you had one or not. You could use any band for background." After Monroe disbanded in 1953, he appeared as a single and later did a long series of RCA television commercials. Although his Jensen Beach, Fla. home is near a golf course and Just 3 miles from sailfishing on the Gulf of Mexico and he has reached "the time of life when I really don't care if I work or not," he organized a band three HELD town 202 S.Main Street-634 5100 JAMES GARNER JOANHACKETT WALTER BRENNAN iM rr 1 COLOR by DeLuxa Mitine Today 2 P.M Matinesa Sat.

Sun. Only "Journey To Tha 7th Planet" HELD OVER 2nd Week! cinema45 SPUING VALLEY EL2-U4J elisor II I asked Monroe, who plays trombone, trumpet and flugel-horn, if he had ever played or sung in a "name" band before forming his own. "Mine was the first I ever worked for," he said. Most World War II teen-agers remember his theme song, "Racing with the Moon," which was his favorite among all the times he recorded for RC A Victor. "I wrote only eight bars of It first, Just enough to get us on and off our Camel Caravan radio program," he said.

"But the people kept asking to hear mornings beginning In September. The show is called R. Pufnsnuf." The Kroffts will not use puppets and are cagey about content, describing it only as "a total happening for everybody, introducing a new entertainment dimension yet un-ex-plored on the video tube." BROADWAY ACTOR Tom Bosley will be a regular on next season's new NBC "That's Debbie" half-hour weekly comedy series starring Debbie Reynolds. He will have the role of Bob Landers, brother-in-law to Debbie. BESS MYERSON, who was Miss America of 1945 and served for the past six years as co-host for the annual telecast fo." comment.

"Hair," billed as a "Tribal rock" musical, opened in an Off-Broadway theater In October 1967, moved to Broadway the following April and still' plays to a full house. NEW YORK (UPI) Fess Parker is going to have a new sidekick when the "Daniel Boone" series begins Its sixth year on the NBC network in the fall. He is Roosevelt (Rosey) Grier, giant former tackle for the Los Angeles Rams National Football League team who retired from the gridiron In 1968. Grier has been edging into show business via singing and guitar playing for several years. In the video series he will play Gabe Cooper.

BROTHERS SID and Marty Krofft, whose puppet extravaganza, "Les Poupees de Paris," has played all over the country for eight years, are creating a half'hour television series that NBC will broadcast Saturday i i I IWS 7 ll 1 wl Tf fl II II I 1 II I Vaughn By CLIFF SMITH Gannett News Service I always thought Vaughn Monroe's bobbysoxers were different from Frank Sinatra's. After all, Monroe was and is a large, handsome man with a virile, baritone voice while Sinatra was a skinny runt with a much thinner, higher-pitched voice. But Monroe told me that his bobbysoxers were the same age and the same type as "Frankie Boy's." If you're from the post-Monroe generation and on- They're On Top The Fifth Dimension's skyrocketing "Aquarius" has blasted Tommy Roe's "Dizzy" from the top slot in the Pop Scene Service Pop record chart. The chart is compiled from reports submitted by lis: tening posts across the nation. 1.

Aquarius, 5th Dimension (Soul City), Rado, Ragnl, McDermot. 2. Dizzy, Tommy Roe (ABC), Roe, Weller. 3. Galveston, Glen Campbell (Capital), Webb.

4. You've Made Me So Very Happy, Blood, Sweat Tears (Columbia), Gordy Jr. Hollo-way, Wilson. 5. Time Of The Seasons, Zombies (Date), Argent.

6. Runaway Child, Running Wild, Temptations (Gordy), Whitfield, Strong. 7. My Whole World Ended, David Ruffin (Motown), Fu-qua, Brist. 8.

Only The Strong Survive, Jerry Butler (Mercury), Martin, Bell. 9. Rock Me, Steppenwolf (Dunhill), Kay. 10. It's Your Thing, Isley Bros.

(T-Neck), Isley Bros. 11. Proud Mary, Credance Clearwater Revival, Bobbit (Fantasy). 12. Twenty-Five Miles, Edwin Starr (Gordy), Bristol, Fuqua, Starr.

13. Traces, Classics IV (Imperial), Buie, Cobb, Gor-die. 14. Mr. Sun, Mr.

Moon, Paul Revere Raiders, Lindsey (Columbia) 15. Hot Smoke Sassafras, Bubble Puppy (Int'l. Artists), Cox, Prince. 16. The Letter, Arbors (Date), Thompson.

17. Indian Giver, 1910 Fruitgum Co. (Buddah), Gentry, Cordell, Bloom. 18. Snatching It Back, Clarence Carter (Atlantic), Hall Staff.

19. You Gave Me A Mountain, Frankie Laine (ABC), Robbins. 20. Don't Give Into Him, Union Gap (Columbia), A 1 LAFAYETTE I II lif iTFil I tLmm4 7-wr LAFAYETTE il I 1 CQlfl HARRY MORGAN nil I OUT.V.INlOUHH II akin6 I all of It, so I had to finish it." "MOON" SOLD over 2ft million records, his "Ghost Ridders iin the Sky" sold 4 million and "Ballerina" sold 5 million. His recording sales total 72 million, tying him with Perry Como and placing him second only to Elvis Presley at RCA.

My favorite Monroe records, however, included "Donkey Serenade," a reminder of his student days when a lack of funds during the Depression forced him out of operatic voice studies and into dance bands, and several of the pageant finale, will not be back next September because of her new job as New York City's director of consumer affairs. She will be replaced by Debbie Bryant, Miss America of 1966. Bert Parks will return for his 14th year as co-host. E. G.

MARSHALL, who was a lawyer for so long in "The Defenders" series, will be seen in the fall as a doctor in a drama complex that NBC calls "The Bold Ones." This consists of one-hour plays rotating In the same time spot, each dealing with a different group of dedicated professional men doctors, lawyers and law enforcement. Jack Gaver It's a loosely written story about a boy about to be drafted who wants to have an affair with a girl. Its main theme is rebellion of the young generation against the old. SPRING VALLEY Today: 10. Tomorrow: Fixer 2, 4:30, kiddie Show Fixer 7:30, 10.

Tomorrow: Fixer 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30. U.A. CINEMA 304, New City Today and tomorrow: Angel in My Pocket 3:25, 5:30, 7:50,10. DRIVE-INS NYACK, Blauvelt Today and tomorrow: Dracula Has Risen 7, Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster 8:45. ROCKLAND Monsey To day: 'Dracula has Risen 7, Frankeinsteln Conquers the World 8:40, 10:45.

Tomorrow: Dracula Has Risen 7 9:15. Frankenstein Conquers the Worlds 8:40. ROUTE 17 Upper Saddle Riv er, N.J. Today and tomor Producer Held Shears II I fiY I EVEN WHEN he's doing two shows a night, six nights a week, his voice today is probably stronger than ever, he said. But he'd like to use it lor a TV western series.

Many forget that he made five movies, four of which cast him as a marshal or Western personality. And since the youngsters "Just don't accept our music at all," Monroe doesn't see an immediate comeback for the big bands. "But the rock 'n' roll groups are expanding, adding a few horns here and there, which means that they'll have to arrange their music and not play out of their head. This may evolve into a bigger band sound." Anytime It Vacation Time! CALL 6-8800 Rockland 7rvl Bureau IK W. nt.

St. NanMI, N. Y. irf ir 1100 JAMES GARNER JOAN HACKETT EE! Ifr TutifiM NlCMT i BOi' NIGHT OUT Alt HIN ADMITTED FOUII OO AND DON'T MOKOAV NIGHT IADII1' NIQHT ALL MDilft ADHMTTIO FOR tl.OO. i.

i I. if I I rVt r. W4ITFS BBfNNAN COtM taffMM fm HMtUL Mmm 5 ond ALAN ALDA And Tlw RmI Ottroit Lion JT; MAT? NnWlkruSUN. irW TUlSnAY NlCMT IS BOYS NIQHT OUT. I I All HIN ADMITTED FOUII OO AND DON'T I MONOAY NIGHT 1 1 IAOIII NIQHT I i All LAIMIi AOMfTTIO FOA years ago because "there was such a demand for the type of music we play." MONROE LS SINGING and the band is playing the same type of music his audiences heard when they were in high school or college, while "keeping up with the good show tunes and pop tunes." He's also using some of the men who played with him in the 40s.

Among the former employes who are no longer with him are Bill Mustard of Rochester, who played lead trombone until the band broke up; trumpeter Bobby Nichols, who plays with the orchestra in a Broadway theater; girl vocalist Marilyn Duke, still singing and playing piano in clubs; comic vocalist Ziggy Talent, who leads a band on Long Island, and trombonist-arranger Ray Conniff, who's made quite a name for himself in pop music. "I keep In touch with them," Monroe said. "I know where they all are." Incidentally, he liked the sound of his former band "very much and I wanted to hear more of It, but we wanted our records played, so I had to sing most of the time." EXCLUSIVE R0CKIAN0 SH0WIHC 2nu unt wttm ACADEMY AWARD ACTOR ALAN BATES mier HoghGiffith Elizabeth Hattiwn Ijn Holm David WaiiytGwlWMt IvliHIK rtr WrUM kmm MAT NOW Utn. SUNDAY BURT LANCASTER I Queen Anne Theatre II 44 Queen Ann Rd. I HELD OVER 2nd WEEK! I "Sappho Darlinq" Th.

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SUCH rHAlSI0M. HETKOCOtOK mi1 itll1 NEW YORK (AP) The producer of the hit musical has fired two of the stars. And they happen to be the two who wrote the script. The autor-actors, James Rado, 29 and Gerome Ragnl, 26, were ordered out of the theater Thursday and Friday and were told that producer Michael Butler had fired them for improvising too much. Rado, standing in front of the theater Friday, commented: "The managmment turns out to be our That's the very thing we're writing about." Ragnl added: "I wish it would close.

It doesn't belong here." The shaggy-haired pair returned to the cast this week after spending five months with the Los Angeles company. They denied that they had been departing from the script and said they would delete any material the management considered1 objectionable. Butler could not be reached Spring Valley Per Advned a tttrt JM-53IJ (All times p.m.) CENTRAL, Pearl River Today: 2001: A Space Odyssey 2, 7, 9:25. Tomorrow: 2001: A Space Odyssey 2:30, 5:30, 8:50. CINEMA 45, Spring Valley -Today: Faces 2, 7:40, 10.

Tomorrow: Faces 2, 7:30, 9:50. ORANGEBURG Today and tomorrow: Paper Lion 1:30, Support Your Local Sheriff 3:15, 7, 10:25. PEARL RIVER Today; Support Your Local Sheriff 2, 7, 9:10. PLAZA, W. Haverstraw To day and tomorrow: Angel In My Pocket 3, 7:30, 9:30.

QUEEN ANNE, Bogota, N.J. Today and tomorrow: Sappho Darling 7:30, 10:20, Bedaz zled 8:45. ROUTE 59, Nanuet Today: Charly 2M, 6, 8, 10. Tomor row Charly 1:30,3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30. TOWN New City Today and tomorrow: Journey to the Seventh Planet Support Your Local herilf 7:55, 9:55.

Beth Am Temple presents "The Most Happy Fella" Directed by Henry Fenbert Musical Director Barry Weinberg Saturday, April 12, 19, 26 at 8:30 pm at the Kakiat Junior High School row: They came to Rob Las Vegas 7, Jlobin and the Seven Hoods 9:20. ROUTE 303, Orangeburg Today and tomorrow: They Came to Rob Las Vegas 7:15, Robin and the Seven Hoods 9:35. I Viola Road,.