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11 Cob AnflcUs Stones sat. Feb. 2. 1980-Pirt I Phil Spector: An Old Pro Meets the Young Punks m0 mdF 05 II 1 vMJ Continued from 5th Page mism with strong doses of old-fashioned sentimentality Among the many hits: "To Know Him Is to Love Him," "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "He's a Rebel." Excited by rock's renewed vitality, Spector has been looking for some time for an association with contemporary acts. He even met briefly with Springsteen after "Born to Run." Still, the Ramones deal was a surprise.

Spector is at his best when he is working with deeply evocative songs and sensual vocalists. The Ramones isn't a band that is known for either. The group's first album was a minor classic fun, furious. But the band had perfected the good-natured, but one-dimensional approach by its third album and demonstrated in its fourth that it didn't know what to do next. Ramones cultists may be disappointed by "End of the Century." Like the Clash's "London Calling" album, the new collection is a big step toward the rock mainstream.

The old high-speed assault still surfaces in spots, but the tone is not as relentless. The album's loose theme is the importance of passion in rock. The opening track is a nostalgic salute to the vitality of old-time rock radio. The arrangement is built around the high-stepping, calliopelike charm of records like "Palisades Park" and "Sea Cruise." Much of the album's strength comes from the realization that not all passion has to be tied to non-stop guitar rampages. "Chinese Rock" shows the Ramones can still rock out, but it's the melancholy Beach Boys strains of "Danny Says" and the taut, lilting remake of Spector's old "Baby, I Love You" that gives the band much needed heart.

Despite flashes of wit, the Ramones' lyrics are generally narrow, so Spector properly has focused attention in most of the album's tracks on the band's energy. He slips in a few chimes and drum echo, but steers away from the elaborate production touches that once were his trademark. (For a purer sample of recent Spector, try "Phil Spector 7479," which was just released by Polydor in England and is available here in import shops.) The result in "End of the Century" is an album that most Spector cultists will likely find more workmanlike than inspired. But Spector and the Ramones weren't aiming for cultists. They had a wider target in mind and, despite a few sags, they hit close to the center.

LIVE ACTION: Weather Report will play at 8 and 11 p.m. at the Palace (formerly the Crown Theater) in Pasadena. Tickets go on sale Monday. Also available Monday will be tickets for comedian Gallagher's shows at the Santa Monica Civic (Feb. 29) and the Anaheim Room of the Anaheim Convention Center (March 1) Tickets are on sale now for J.

Geils' March 21 date at Pauley Pavilion. A second Kenny Loggins concert is scheduled for Feb. 25 at Anaheim Convention Center. Tickets will be sold by mail order only Besides her Feb. 24-25 whisky dates, Lene Lovich will headline UCLA's Ackerman Ballroom Feb.

26. Tickets go on sale Monday. INFLUENCE Phil Spector owns piece of rock. PRODUCED The Ramones' Spector -designed album emphasizes the energy of the band. Times photo by Mtrih Hirtnett POP REVIEWS bited freshness to the current club-scene doldrums.

Tina Chappel, Valerie Jackson, Sheila Shaw and Cath-leen Spencer come in various sizes and shapes. With a shrewd musical director, Glenn Mehrbach, and stage director and choreographer Gary Mascaro, they have assembled an enterprising show built around Broadway musical and revue tunes. They avoid the expected. Instead of the usual "Send in the Clowns," Chappel, a tiny brunette, cutely and persistently intones Sondheim's "The Boy from Shaw, a robust, mocking kind of older sister, fills Sheldon Har-nick's and David Baker's "Someone Is Sending Me Flowers" with all its requisite irony. Generally, the material is well chosen for each individual.

Jackson, obviously the best endowed vocally, manages a light, rolling vibrato and a big torchy finale on "Home Sweet Heaven" from "High Spirits." The evening's biggest challenge was taken by Spencer, a tall willowy blonde, who no doubt will work a bit more into her opus, "Jenny" from Kurt Weill's "Lady in the Dark." Monday first show had a few rough edges, but these TONIGHT at 8:30 interfered little with some marvelous ensemble moments, as the quartet invested such favorites as "Turning On" and "Makin' Whoopee" with a few unusual turns in harmony LosAnoeles and phrase. j.ill.:Ull This year's Madam Courageous Award surely goes to the opening act, Sandra Bernhart, who, braving a small, rather cold group of spectators, proved herself a dauntless and ChamberOrch Surprise for MCA Rupert Holmes Since Elton John opted for semiretirement in 1977, hit singles have been a rarity at MCA Records, so it came as quite a shock to the label's national pop promotion director when a Top 10 record fell into her lap. "I went to bed one night," said Margo Knesz, "and woke up with a hit single." This unusual bit of good fortune occurred when Infinity Records, MCA's ill-fated sister label, went out of business in November after losing large sums of money throughout its 19-month existence. One of the few Infinity acts that MCA retained was Rupert Holmes, a pop singer-producer whose single, "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)," was nearing the top of the charts. "That song was already a hit when we got a hold of it," Knesz acknowledged.

"An atom bomb couldn't have stopped Rupert. Every radio station in the country was playing his song." Despite "Escape's" lengthy stay at the top, Holmes' album, "Partners in Crime," has had a long, hard climb up the charts. Part of the problem is Holmes' image as a singles artist. "You need a lot of album-oriented rock AOR) for FM stations to really push an album," Knesz explained. "It's tough to sell records strictly with top 40 airplay.

AOR stations are very snobbish. They won't play Top 40 Acts they're not considered hip." Holmes, a shy, bespectacled songwriter best known for his production work with Barbra Streisand, hardly qualifies as a romantic, rock-heartthrob figure. "He's just not a Bruce Springsteen," Knesz confessed. "He's a mass-appeal, middle-America artist." To make up for AOR radio's lack of airplay, Holmes needs constant exposure on Top 40 radio. According to Knesz, that means a steady string of hit singles.

"That way we can bombard the public with his name and his sound," Knesz said. "Eventually, they'll buy his album to find out what else he does." However, too many hit singles can also damage an artist's career. "You can't shove every single down radio's throat," she said. "That can alienate key stations and hurt the artist's image. So we're releasing another single, but after that, we'll probably have to wait for Rupert's next album." Again, timing is important.

"We don't want to shortchange Rupert's album, we want to get every last possible sale out of it before we release another one," Knesz said, "but we can't wait too long, either. You know how fickle the public is." -PATRICK GOLDSTEIN Custom Cakes Perform at Playboy Club Appearing for the first time this week in Lainie's Room at the Centurv Citv Plavbov Clnh a taipnttvi Chung Replaces Soviet Conductor Continued from 5th Page the Temirkanov agenda without modification. For his part, Chung proved eminently worthy of that trust. It would be silly to pretend, under the circumstances, that he produced performances dripping with Slavic authenticity, or performances marked with overwhelming interpretive individuality. One suspects Temirkanov might have striven for richer sonorities, heavier accents, broader tempos, greater dynamic and dramatic contrasts.

The national tradition would have it no other way. There are more ways than one to skin a symphony, however, and Chung's way proved perfectly plausible Thursday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Chung did not ignore the obvious opportunities for expressive flamboyance. Nevertheless, he made it clear that he wanted to keep everything tightly under control, that he really valued precision and balance, that he favored lean sonorities and transparent textures; ultimately that he hoped taste and restraint would compensate for any limits in emotional indulgence. His poise and dash proved particularly effective in the Shostakovich Sixth Symphony, which closed the evening.

Other conductors may give in more to the composer's soulful lyricism, or stress his agonized rhetorical convolutions with more conviction. There can be no denying, however, that Chung gave the massive work the considerable benefits of propulsion, grace, tension and detail illumination. What's more, he did so without fuss, without the usual watch-me-I'm-a-passionate-conductor choreography. In three orchestral excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov's wonderful opera, "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh," he concentrated on a lovely, shimmering cantilena. It served the reflective passages beautifully, though it slighted some of the lusty pathos in the energetic, folk-oriented episodes.

The soloist for the central offering, Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, was the redoubtable Horacio Gutierrez. He ripped through this gutsy bravura extravaganza with all the stamina, all the motor power, and all the high-velocity dexterity we have come to expect of him. This, without a question, was big-league bravado. With Chung providing an essentially correct rather than characterful orchestral framework, however, he was unable to capitalize on all the piquant charm of the piece, not to mention the macabre wit. Somehow, the performance remained a bit bland beneath the surface excitement.

It stayed resolutely polite just when we hoped it would be a little bit rude. capable comedienne. Her half-hour act contained priceless gems of mirth. The show continues through Feb. 9.

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