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State Street fifeat Wisconsin State Journal, Thursday, May 6, 1982 Section 5, Page 3 State Street lifestyle isn't dependent on eight blocks of Madison real estate. It's a state of mind, permeating many thousands of Wisconsin residents in hundreds of different places. You may be one. Waitresses finally get some tips Teletalk What single factor has most influenced your career? Bob Hope "Hm that's an interesting question. I think it was jfcW StLV lbafl MflB 4c fli my mother because she was a concert singer in Wales and I inherited a voice from her.

She sort of encouraged me to sing. I started out as a singer and then went into dance. Later, I found out I could get laughs." Bob Hope was born in Eith-am, England, on May 29, 1903. When he was four years old, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. At one time he quipped, "I left England because I didn't feel I was getting anywhere and realized even then that I could never be a king." everything that went wrong or looked like a failure turned out to be a blessing.

I gave us time for the market to change. The Go-Go's, Soft Cell and the Waitresses are coming up from the people. It's not some guy saying, 'This is The only reason we're getting on the air in a lot of places is that the kids have bought the record." That's not to say they understand it. The pop-arty melodies and offbeat conversational poesy of Waitresses entrees like "Wise Up," Butler's cynical model of an Alcoholics Anonymous for love junkies, have left a lot of audiences on the group's recent tour intrigued but confused. "I've learned a new ominous sound," cracks Butler, "the sound of 500 people scratching their heads." One misconception that has been fueled by the avalanche of press is that Butler writes overtly feminist tracts and uses Donahue as his mouthpiece.

Although many of the songs on "Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?" project a woman's point of view, they all deal with universal situations getting over a breakup, singles-bar rituals and roles anyone can play. Second, Is. Donahue is no pop-band puppet. "I'm relating my experiences, too," she insists. "He wrote the songs, but I'm not just singing what he feels.

It's like, I feel this way, don't you feel this way, 'Boys Like' is funny because it relates that whole scene. I do not go around in bars teasing guys. But we all know it goes on. Let's all laugh about it." Bob Hope Gov. Lee Dreyfus "I have to say my parents.

Both my father, who was a broadcaster in Milwaukee, and my mother, who was a By David Fricke Rolling Stone NEW YORK It's true that the Waitresses' debut album, "Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?" is receiving only token FM airplay. But on the strength of the group's grueling tour schedule and the underground word-of-mouth sparked by its saucy 1981 dance club hit, "I Know What Boys Like," the album is already knocking at the back door of the Top Fifty just two months after its release. Not bad for the four-man, two-woman group that started in 1977 as a figment of guitarist-songwriter Chris Butler's imagination. A former member of Tin Huey (a guiding light of the late-'70s experimental rock scene in Akron, Ohio), he knew too well the pitfalls of life in a highly uncommercial working band. What better way, then, to have all the fun and none of the hassle than to form an imaginary group? Born over coffee and cake in a Kent, Ohio, diner, the phantom Waitresses not only made records a 1978 single; tracks on assorted Akron compilations but were reviewed in a fan magazine called Blank that was founded by Butler for that very purpose.

The group even had its own religion, led by the guru Bababarbra Ann. A dark-horse hit But before Butler could kill the group off in the obligatory plane crash, "I Know What Boys Like" a copy bopper about barroom teases, sung by Patty Donahue with a punky sexiness became a dark-horse hit. Now living in New York, Butler was forced to round up some real Waitresses, mostly Ohio musician friends, to meet the demand for live shows. The single had to be released twice because of distribution problems, and the album, completed last spring, gathered dust while negotiations with major labels dragged on. "The irony of it," Butler notes with an air of perverse triumph, "was that member of the Milwaukee School Board for 23 years and its first woman president, dedicated their lives to public service.

"They were strong believers in tything your time for the benefit of others. My father lived by a credo that upon completion of one's life, the important question to be asked would be, 'What did you do with the talents you were given and for whom did you do "My wife, Joyce, whom I've The Waitresses, from left, Danny Klayman, Billy Ficca, Chris Butler, Tracy Wormworth, Mars Williams, Patty Donahue Gov. Lee Dreyfus known almost all my life and also was influenced by my parents. grew up just nine blocks away, Both of us have-carried that philosophy with us through lite, ana are guided by the example of my parents, who lived such full and rewarding lives." A 'normal' group Butler has a term for Waitresses music "hypernormalism." "It's like a photorealistic painting of the reflection of a street in a hubcap, that kind of thing." For someone who writes such couplets as, "My goals are to find a cure for irony; And make a fool out of God," Chris Butler positively reeks of normal, from his scruffy De Niro-like features and the preppie cut of his red sweater down to the coins the other members sax man Mars Williams, keyboardist Danny Klayman, ex-Television drummer Billy Ficca and bassist Tracy Wormworth take the fun in Butler's songs very seriously. "I don't think there's any separation between what we go through as people and what is in the songs," Butler insists.

"It's nice that people are talking theoretical about the music. But we're a rock 'n' roll band." in the slits of his penny loafers. Patty Donahue, who was a real-life waitress in her early 20s and, like Butler, is a Kent State University grad, is so normal she recently opened a bank account in New York and is still waiting for her free electric percolator. The ebullient thrust of the arrangements and the group's concentrated energy onstage suggest that Peter and Lou Berryman, No Relation, local comedy musicians Lou: "I guess I would have to say it was Frederick Buschmann, the guy who invented the accordion in 1822. Where would I be today without my squeeze box? Probably still stuck in Squirrely Valley." Peter: "Gin.

That's right, gin. No I think it was our divorce. If we had kept on living together, the band would have never happened. We're much better friends now that we're not married to each other anymore." (Peter and Lou Berryman, No Relation, will be featured Saturday, 5 p.m. on National Public Radio's'Trairie Home Companion" program.

Originating from St. Paul, the show can be heard locally on WERN, 88.7 FM, and WHA, 970 Jazz giants to gather in Milwaukee Michael St. John On the Beat Heavy Manners and Snopek. Music starts atnoon. am woman, hear me Men may still dominate the pop music world population-wize.

but women have ruled Billboard magazine's record charts for the past year. Female led acts have hajd the No. 1 slot for a total of 32U2 weeks since May 1, 1981, compared to only 20 weeks for their male counterparts. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts have led the pack for the last seven weeks. Miss Jett and her guys are also only the fifth group in 25 years to top the charts with a single for seven or more weeks.

Danny and the Juniors with "At The Hop" in 1958, Bobby Lewis with "Tossin' and Turmn' in 1961 and the Beatles with "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in 1964, all held the top spot for seven consecutive weeks. Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" survived for 10 in 1977. Oscar Peterson, saxophonist Chico Freeman, vibes greats Milt Jackson and Percy Heath, drummer Connie Kay, pianist John Lewis, and a reunion concert by the Modern Jazz Quar tet Tickets go on sale May 10 at all Ticketron outlets. Latest Madison Who's Whose Clyde Stubblefield former drummer with Slick Licks now with Tina and the Tigers. Tina and the Tigers were formerly Steam Heat Hi Fi has added drummer Roily Tvedt formerly with Hot Fingers is back with new members and new name Black Lion.

The Wisconsin Student Association's Mayhem On The Mall festival set for Saturday on the Library Mall is featuring some heavy-duty local talent. In order of appearance, entertainment will be provided by Jim Pel-linger, Tenant, Java, Vertical Hold, Lou Berryman Peter Berryman Ordinarily, I wouldn't begin talking about a concert scheduled for August quite this far in advance. But the line-up for this year's Kool Jazz Festival slated for Aug. 11-15 in Milwaukee is so outstanding (with tickets likely to evaporate), I thought I'd clue you in. Although bands and artists featured for the past three years have generally been closer to rhythm-and-blues or funk, the 1982 list of performers reads like a veritable "Who's Who" of jazz, from the mainstream to the progressive.

In addition, the festival won't be at Milwaukee County Stadium as in the past. Opening the festivities Aug. 11 will be a free mid-day concert at the new Peck Pavilion of the Performing Arts Center featuring legendary cornet player William "Wild Bill" Davison. On Thursday evening, Aug. 12, innovative saxophonistcomposer Or-nette Coleman will perform at the Pabst Theater.

Tickets for that show are $12. The weekend shows will be at Washington Park with tickets for each day's 11,400 reserved seats Is lying wrong to get job? tagged at $15, $12.50 and $10. Featured on Friday, Aug. 13, will be vocalist Mel Torme, saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and his orchestra, pianist George Shearing, vocalist Carmen McRae and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie Saturday, Aug. 14, it's Sarah Vaughn and her trio, keyboardist Herbie Hancock, the Heath Brothers, jazz-rockers Spyro Gyra and the Great Quartet.

Who is the Great Quartet, you say? A special one-time collaboration by pianist McCoy Tyner, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Eivin Jones. Sunday, Aug. 15, is the grand finale with vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, pianist have been reinforced for telling lies. Or, let's say, when I tell the truth, I find out that I would have done better if I had made up some reasonable story." From a retired man: "Yes, I have lied. When the Gestapo knocked on my door in the middle of the night so many years ago and asked if I were Jewish, what was I supposed to say? Would God reward me in heaven for telling the truth?" Continued from Page 1 them will, themselves, be liars.

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