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28 Friday, 20, 1970 the Ottawa Journal 'Engelbert Audience Wrong for Us' I merge 'V rop By P. H. NICOL Take a countrified sort of song like the Band's. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, add some prefty fine guitar licks, somefaditional sort of country harmonies, some foot-stomping rhythm, and a dash or two of autoharp and you end up with a pretty good working definition of bluegrass. music.

It has been a 6ince any of 'us were exposed to good bluegass music. Mike O'Reilly is probably the only popular performer in the area of this sort of style and since he left to study in far-off places, there has been a real lack of this most distinct flavor. LE HIBOU, who usually caters to the more popular forms of folk and rock music by bringing in the bigger names of thfese fields, is attempting to fill the gap by presenting this weekend a group from Toronto called James and The Good James Ackroyd is the lead guitarist who hails from Sas- katoon where he played with such people as Barry Ennis and the Keymen, and later with The Knack. AFTER HOURS Friday and Saturday WEIGHT Le Hibou 521 sussex 233-0712 We've put it all together 58 EDDY ST. Hull's Hip New Club X.

for Non-Drinkers DISCO, BANDS, LIGHTS Sun. to .12 "WEIGHT" $1.25 58 EDDY ST. Li The Good Brothers are twins, Brian and Bruce Good who come from the Toronto area. They write a lot of the group's material and Brian handles a good part of the lead vocal while Bruce is the team comedian. The act got under way through a chance meeting in the Penny Farthing, a relatively decent coffee house in the Yorkville district in Toronto The three of them decided they liked eachr.

other and each other's music and took things into their own hands from there. All of this oc- curred last February, but don't be fooled by the short time they have been together. They sound, like they have been at it for years. In addition they've had some pretty prestigious gigs. Consider the fact they have played in shows with Bonnie, and Delaney, Sy and the Family Stone, and (up-.

coming) Led Zeppelin. They were also a part of the Festival Express last summer; that caravan thing of entertainers that travelled across Canada bringing culture and 'bluegrass to the attention of thousands; Also, coming In the near fu- ture are a couple of CBC shows and (they hope) a recording contract. Be honest now. How many musicians have gotten so much action and so many things going for them in the first nine months of their existence? It tends to suggest their talent. James and the Good Brothers describe their music as the union of one rock guitarist and two bluegrass-Irish folk song fans who got together one night and managed to rub off on each other to their mutual benefit.

It seems like a pretty good description. appearance here in Ottawa is their first and they come direct from two of Toronto's biggest clubs, the Riv-erboat and the Crypt. They will be in concert until Sunday" evening and I think you will find it quite, enjoyable should you decide to take in a show or two. The good effects of the group may or may not be spoiled by the fact that I will 8 Been a Long Time EDWARD BEAR and P.M. i Sunday Nite Nov.

22 EDWARD BEAR FROM TORONTO One of Canada's Top Recording Acts (YOU, AND MEXICO) Notre Dame Church IN HULL DRESS CASUAL, Don't Miss it It's MAJOR HOOPLE'S '-BOARDING-HOUSE PINELAND SAT. NOV. 21, DOORS OPEN 7.30 P.M. TREBLE CLEF PRESENTS Vd I LIGHTHOUSE and the TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OTTAWA CIVIC CENTRE P.M. DEC.

TICKETS: ADVANCE 3.00,' DOOR 4.00 Available at Both 'y Treble Clef Stores Moil orders occepted with stomped, self- XS. qddressed envelope. v. IP be there playing the second act. I refuse to comment on whether or not you will enjoy my performance and will let you decide that for yourselves.

It is fair to say though, that no matter how you look upon my music, the sounds of-James and the Good Brothers will make up for it. i Congratulations are in order to Bob Jantzen and the others who put together the A.I.D. benefit at the MYSNOMER coffee house last weekend. There were a great many performers, all of them 'good, and a very fine turn-out in audience. Most of the latter were' impressed bothwJth the show and the club itself.

The Mysnomer is a big, bright club located in the basement of Eglise Unie St. Marc on the corner of Lewis and Elgin Streets. Jantzen suggested that he considered the show quite a success and that they will be offering entertainment every Friday and Saturday from now on. Their policy is a little different though. Instead of having one person for two nights, or even one person each night as most clubs to, they will have three different performers every night.

This is a fine idea since people can see more enter tainers this way and the en tertainers, most of whom will be new to the scene, will have a lot of pressure taken off them. It is easier for a new performer to put together one good set then try to -get a 0 whole evening going on his first try. Congradulations to David Wiffin, who returned recently from San Francisco after recording his first alburn. It should be. on the shelves in a month or two and for one, am looking forward to it.

two weeks which the Carpenters would have liked to forget, had it not been 'for the good news that their latest single. We've "Only Just Begun. had just reached number one and sold a million copies. For the past fortnight, the Carpenters had been serving as a warm-up act for Engelbert Humperdinck, and even Spiro Agnew would realize just how bad that sort of billing would be for a couple of nice kids like Richard and Karen Carpenter. "The audience was all wrong for Richard reluctantly admitted.

"A lot of the patrons were season ticket holders, opera-goers, the sort of people who think Engelbert Humperdinck was the guy who 'wrote Hansel and "We'd be introduced," cut in Karen, "as A recording stars, the Carpenters, and all we'd hear would be snores from the front rows." Richard jumped, back in: "The rest of the audience fanatical Engelbert fans. You know, the middle-aged screamers. They'jd drag their husbands out to see freak out when he did his striptease act 'Vell, not really, but they do play The Stripper when he takes off his coat and tie, and loosens his belt. "When" he went into that routine, it was bedlam. Some women would race down the aisles" to the "stage," like the-kids used to for the Beatles.

One woman even threw a pair of panties at Engelbert." Karen smiled ruefully. "Trouble was, they fell short. Landed in the orchestra pit, right on the shoulder of one of the lady violin players. You can imagine the trouble she had; getting through the rest of the show." It's obviously going to be quite a while before the Carpenters agree to appear lWgIIIGH. Twenty Canned Heat Anay ium iitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiitiiiiiifiiiiifiriiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiifiitiiuiiiiitiiti THE BELLS, The Top UUUVUiLLL-ll V- 1 I Think I Love You (1) Partridge Family 2 Share The Land (2) Guess Who 3 Gypsy Woman (6) Brian Hyland 4 You Don't Have To Say (5) Elvis Presley 5 I'll Be There48) Jackson 5 6 Only Make Believe (3) Glen Campbell 7 Heed The Call (7) First Edition 8 Beautiful 2nd Hand Man (13) Ginette Reno 9 Beaucoups of Blues (lO) Ringo Starr V10 Stand By Your Man (15) Candi Staton rr -12 13 14 is 16 17 v18 19 20 "Work Togethef (14) Be My Baby (16) He Ain't Heavy (17) Fly Little White Dove TJ8)'; Sunset Strip (20) We've OnJy Just Begun (4) Do It (23) .7 Stoned Love (24) Sweethearf(ll) Circle Game (9) Neil Diamond The (5) BeDs Ray Stevens Carpenters Neil Diamond Supremes E.

Humperdinck" Buffy St. Marie Best Newcomer Bet My Sweet Lord George Harrison CanadianTop Ten 1 Share The Land (1) Guess Who. 2 Bus Rider (2) Guess Who 3 Beautiful 2nd Hand Man (4) Ginette. Reno 4 Be My Baby (5) Andy Kim 5 Fly Little White Dove, Fly (6) The (5) Bells 6 Circle Game (2) Buffy St. Marie 7 Only Love Can Break Your Heart Neil Young 8 Hello Melinda Goodbye (10) Five Man Electrical Band 9 Musical Friends Bruce Cockburn 10 Sing High, Sing Low Ann Murray by The Journal and CKOY's Gary vhwe 50 Pie -TORONTO It.

had been again with the likes of Engelbert. "He's a real nice guy," Richard said, "but those fans of his are too "much. Wow." Not that, the Carpenters are likely to be faced with similar situations in the future. Now that We've Only Just Begun has repeated the phenomenal success of the group's Close to You hit, it would appear that the brother and sister Carpenter have just reached the door to the big-time. Close to You was only their second single (the first, a revival of the Beatles' Ticket to Ride, was a moderate success) and it has sold almost three million copies internationally.

An album named after Close to You was certified as a gold record a few days ago. Three gold records in lllliillllllllllllllllllllllllllilllliilillllllllllllllllllllllllt WMMlHlMi! JULIE AND FRANK Julie Still A Typical Teenager By BARBARA LEWIS NEW YORK Life for 16-year-old Julie Budd goes from one extreme to the other. One day she gets flowers from Frank Sinatra and the next she's cleaning her own room in the house she grew up in in Brooklyn. In some ways, the tiny singer with the big voice is a typical teenager she gets an allowance, she helps with the dishes, she has homework. In other, ways she's untypical she earns $100,000 a year, she spends about one week.

in four, iftischopl, and she likes 30X Very little impresses lienor scares her. She inks nothing of facfng an audience of 1,100 at Caesers Palace in Las Vegas where she appeared on the same bill'-earlier this year with Sinatra. 'That doesn't give me the jitters at all," she says. "The only thing that scares is taking tests. I was up- all night last night studying for an English quiz." Most of the faces of stars who had appeared on Broadway eludes Julie.

"I'm dense that way," anyway," she explained. "Like the time Sinatra sent me the flowers. There I was in Las Vegas. I came into my dressing room at Caesers Palace and there was this huge basket of roses. I went searching through them to see if there was a card was signed and it And my manager was with me and I remembered saying 'Frank, It didn't dawn on me for the moment and thenJt-jeached me.

'Oh my I 'said, They're from While Julie has appeared in Las Vegas several times, she is too young yet to play the night-spots in New York. She is also too young to drink, to drive, to get married, or manage her own 'aft "fairs. She has two more years before she comes of age. None of these, however, are obstacles. She has no desire to drink, smoke, or drive.

She has no one in mind to marry and she is perfectly happy to let her father and her manager take care of her business affairs. By Ritchie Yorke five months is quite an achievement fpr any artist, let alone a relatively new one. The Carpenter, family moved to Los Angeles seven years ago from New Haven, 'and Richard and Karen have been singing professionally for three years. "We were in groups for a while," said Karen, who plays drums in addition to her charming vocals, "and one of them, Spectrum, did fairly well in Los Angeles. They didn't make any records, but they were quite well known, in the When Richard and Karen decided to go but alone, they todk along two of the Spectrum members as part of their" four-piece a up group.

TicKet to rude was their first single, from a debut album caned Offering, which made very little noise. Then, of course, came Close to You, a Hal David-Burt Bach-arach song which had been around for several years. i e-Warwick and Dusty Springfield had done the tune on albums," Richard said, "but we'd never heard either version. One day we were rehearsing for a performance with Burt Bacharach in which we were to do a medley of six Bacharach songsT Herb Alpert came into the studio and ask- ed us df we'd ever heard of Close to You, and he dug out an old lead sheet of the song. He'd planned to 'cut it himself but had never gotten around to it.

"Herb said 'we should do our own arrangement before listening to the other versions. It worked out so well that we decided to cut it as a single. 4T was really impressed with how it came but on tape, and I realized it had the same commerciaj potential as Bacharach's This Guy's in' Love With You. But I never expected it to sell over two million records." Richard isn't sure how they're going to 'follow We've Only Just Begun, but he 'says that radio KRLA in Los Angeles has been devoting a lot of time to Reason to Believe, the beautiful Tim-Hardin tune which has never really made it as a single. The track is included on the Close-to You LP.

Afte saying goodbye to Engelbert, the Carpenters were off to Chicago, Japan, Hawaii, Alabama, San Francisco, winding up in Los Angeles on 12 for a benefit at Cow State in Long choir master there gave us a lot of help, and we promised that if we ever made it, we'd come back and do a concert, with the proceeds going to the choir fund." After that," they take a month off to cut a third al-bum, which will be some-, thing of a relief after 18 solid weeks on the road. The Carpenters fly to Aus--tralia on Febt-38-for a series ON THE BEAT FRIDAY Buckingham; A Dedicated April Thunder, Pembroke; Tte Fam- CornwaHlbatreasr-Pt September, High; Renaissance, Beacon Arms. SATURDAY Major Hoople's Boarding House, Pineland; Edward Bear, Pineland; Albatross, Brockville; Renaissance, Gloucester High; Tote Family, Renfrew; Cain, Buckingham; Disco September, Carleton; Bridge, Pontiac; Sweet River Street Band, Kemptville. SUNDAY September, Bistro 212; Trevor Payne, Buckingham. of eight concerts in cities.

"We've got relatives in "Sydney and we're 'really looking forward to making our first visit down under." They're also talking about a short Visit to England to pro- mote We've Only Just B-gun. Close to You is currently an enormous hit in Europe. "I think we're about" ready to be able to make it in concerts on our own. I don't think we're going to have to wanrt up for anyone from now on," Richard says, with an air of gratitude. "It's quite incredible 1 1 Who is the person I could contact who is responsible, fir bringing the entertainment stars to Ottawa? Although there are several promotors in the city, we suggest you contact Harvey Glatt at the Treble Clef on SpSrks -street- Wc Why is it that Skyline Cablevlsion cannot briny iiiJ.the same stations as Ottawa Cablevlsion? $otn cable stations bring bring would offer viewers the best Channel 6, Montreal, a CBC transmitting centre) is located in that direction.

Ottawa Cablevi'sion relays Channel 11, a CBC affiliate in Kingston, Jnce its head-end is closer to Can you tell me why cable reception on Channels 5 In Pittsburgh and Channel 7 In Watertown have been poor lately? The problem has been atmospheric conditions. Cable company officials say that the signals are much stronger in winter. I would like to know why Rex Humbard's program has been taken off the air in Canada? The program is still seen in some areas, via the cable. For further information, contact the program manager at CJOH TV in Ottawa at 224-1313. Where could I obtain a large color or black and white photo of Des O'Connor, the British music hall star? On June: 20, the TV Journal ran a full cover on Des, who will be appearing in Ottawa next month.

-This was obtained from CTV and we would suggest you write to the net-: work at 42 Charles Street East, hvToronto. Where could I write to Engelbert Humperdinck? Write to him care of MAM, 140 Piccadilly, London, England. In The Journal you print the top 20 songs each week. What do the numbers In brackets mean? fhese are the positions held down by the record fhe previous week. ic What is the address to write to The Lawrence Welk Show which appears on the Watertown station on Saturday evenings? Write to the program care of the ABC TV Network, 7 West 66th Street, New York 23, New York.

What year was Barbara Hale of the "Perrjr Mason" serjfes born and did she appear in any movies? 7 Barbara was born on April 18. 1922 She made several movies including "Lorna Doone," Hand," "Lion In The Streets" and "Far Someone told me that Jack writer on "The Odd Couple," actually was a sports write-in real life at one time. Is that true? If so, when and wher it's not true, but Klugman claims he does have quite a few other things in common with the character he playsthe main one being that both of them are Klugman a sportsman of sorts but his brand runs to tracks and form charts. Didn't Paul Newman star in a Biblical epic called. "The Silver Chalice?" If so, when was the movie made? True, Newman co-starred in the' 1954 release taken from the Thomas B.

Costain novel. As a matter of fact, the actor made his movie debut in this film. Newman thinks he was so bad in it that a few years ago, when the film first was shown on TV in Los Angeles, Newman took an ad in the paper apologizing for it and begging people not to watch. Please tell me something about Rachel on "Another World." Robin Strasser, who plays Rachel Matthews on "Another World," was a scholarship graduate of Yale Drama School "and this is her first TV is a veteran of 27 on and off-Broadway. She married to actor-writer Laurence Luckinbill and lives in Brooklyn.

Wasn't Stanley Livingston in a movie with Doris Day? And can you tell me the name of the movie? Yes. Livingston, who plays Chip on "My Three Sons," was In 'Please Don't Eat The Daisies" with -Doris Day and-David Niven, It was in that film that Sons' producer Don Fedderson spotted Stanleyfor the Chip role. tell tne the ege Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, in 1900. He celebrated his 70th birthday on July 4th." Was the woman who plays Mrs. Livingston on "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" ever in any popular movies? Miyoshi Umeki, or Mrs.

Livingston, played Katsumi in the movie "Sayonara" for which role she won an Academy Award. She also played MeiXi in "Flower Drum Song," both on stage and screen. -What is Doris Day's real name and when did she begin her acting career? Doris Kap'pelhoff. She first appeared in a stage show at age of 12. Her first film was "Romance on the High Seas." What is Vince Edwards' real name? Also, could you tell me the name of the theme song from Matt Lincoln? Vince Edwards was born Vincent Edward Zoine.

The song played during Matt' Lincoln is called "Hey Does Somebody Care," written by Linda Perhaps. It is not yet available on record. lltlltlltiillUll4iIIIIIIIIlllllllIIIIII(HltllllIItlllIIIMIIttl1lltllIIIII1tll1lJ)lllllllIlltlltllllllltll4IIJtlIllltlIl Illltlt 1 HOTEL ALEXANDRA I BUCKINGHAM, QUEBEC PS Friday and Sunday really. Our first album didn't even get on the top 200 best sellers, eur second is number three. That has really got me psyched." Karen is not quite so impressed; During one she and Richard sitting in the theatre restaurant having "All of a sudden, jpris group of four ladies came up to us and said: Are you the and I said yes, mentally thinking 'a ha, recognition at last i "Then the 'ladies asked us if we knew where was." in signals which, they leeLx in sis in quality.

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