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Buddy Rich has fulfilled jazz musicians dream By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfea hires Writer daydream of the jazz musician is to open his own place, where musicians would -be treated right he'd know what that means and quality jazz would reign. Also, he'd play there himself and not have to be traveling all the For Buddy Rich, that daydream is a reality. He opened Buddy's Place In New seating 200, closed it after about a year and then in April opened Buddy's Place again, this time in the Penn Station area, seating 375. For this one, he had a band contractor put together a 16- piccc band of young musicians. He got them from a Broadway show, a TV show, from recor and jingle work.

Rich is a happy man. He says it's the best band he ever has led and he's playing drums better and better. "I don't go to work any I go to play. "These guys have great pride in their musicianship. They've been locked up in recording studios.

They want other people to know how good they are. At the end of the night somebody always says, 'Let's play some .1 The band has a new record out, "The Big Band Machine," on Groove Merchant, Rich's fifth with that label. His recordings stretch far back, over many labels. "The Roar of '74" also was with a bie band and the three prior to that were with combos. Big bands sound better, Rich says.

"Rich is described in the of Jazz" as tiaving "phenomenal technique and dynamically swinging style on the drums and an electric personality." About the personality, which also has been described in other terms. Rich savs. in the crisolv rapid way in which he talks', "I nicer now, than I used to be. I enjoyed being rotten when I was rotten. And I enjoy being less rotten now." About his playing, he says, "I'm playing better than I ve played in a long time.

I was satisfied with the way I was playing up until this band. Two years ago I thought I wasn't going to get any better. Then I realized I wasn't playing as good as this band. I'm playing better than I was a year ago; it builds up every night. Automatically, if I see 1 don't play as good as they do, I improve.

They tnay not keep me." Rich announced at the end of his set at the Newport Jazz Festival that this was the best band he'd lever led. "I think they should hear it. I go back to the school of band leaders who never talked to the musicians. I'm a leader who's also part of the band." Rich, now 58,. who started with his parents' vaudeville team, Wilson and Rich, when he was 18 months old, goes back to the Bunny Berigan Band in 193S, and bands of Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Carter and Harry James, being in some of them more i than once.

He led his own first band in 1946. His present young band members, who know those people as legendary names, from reading about them and hearing their records, love to hear Rich reminisce. "They like me to talk about the time Bunny Berigan fell off the stage and difficulties with the Dorsey Band. "I didn't have my car with me in Washington. I went into the dressing room and said, 'I got some bad news for you fellas.

I'm going back to New York on the bus with you They cheered. We had a four and a half-hour drive and it was one laugh from the start until we Rot here. "They "wanted to know if the bus we were on was anything like buses used to be. They had no idea of 1038, '39 and '40. We used to put newspapers in the windows.

In summer we'd take the paper out, and flies, mosquitos and bugs would come in. They didn't nave highway guard rails In those days. One time we went around a mountain with a drunken bus driver. I think the only way musicians made it in those days was to get so bombed out that you couldn't realize a lot of things. Those were strange da vs.

"We'd travel 300 or 400 or 500 miles in one jump, change into our tuxedos on the bus and get out and go to work. I think that's why I hate buses today. Ybu'd work up a sweat on the bandstand and get on a cold bus while you were still wet. There was no air-conditioning or heating system in the winter. I can remember sitting bundled up in the bus in the wintertime.

It's funny and weird. Here I am 40 years later. It didn't really hurt me." Rich had a heart attack in 1959, which sidelined him only for a while. He has a bad back, which he says his karate practice doesn't harm. "My back's an occupational thing.

Sitting slouched over drums gives you curvature of the spine, a doctor said. You put all your weight on your back. The stool has no back. There's no way to get comfortable. You're sitting up high so you can reach evervthine." Friday.

September 5, Mitchell Daily Republic Mail September 6, 1975 COFFEE CREAM PIE Ihe mMtth ef Sept. frem 2 to 5 p.m. COUNTRY KITCHEN 8 Blks. N. of Corn Palace OPEN 24 HOURS DANCE This Weekend to FADED BLUE Two Exotic Dancers Sheila Sherri Lee All At The KONGO KLUB N.Hwy.37 Mitchell, S.D.

American Legion Calendar of Events SATURDAY, SEPT. DINNER DANCE Sirloin or Shrimp to the Chosen Few. Bring someone with you. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. MEN'S STAG Sirloin or Shrimp -Regular meeting 8:00 p.m.

Bring someone with you. American Legion 121 N. Main Mitchell 999-9490 Says comedian Drummer Buddy Rich as fulfilled a dream of many musicians. He has opened his own club, Buddy's Place in New York City. Sec related story.

School play actors elope in real life By FRED COLEMAN Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) In the latest high school version of "My Fair Lady" enacted in Britain, a 16-year-old Liza Doolittle has eloped with a 15- year-old bit player. The worried parents of both teenagers are searching the country for them. Teressa Giggins was the star of the schpol play in Luton, north of London, and David Duncan had only a small walk- on part as a bystander in a Try Our lurgtr. THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA Ib. pure beef SCOTTY'S 719 N.Main Mitchell crowd scene.

But he got the girl in the real life drama. Parents said the couple fell in love behind the scenes and that David had secretly bought Teressa an engagement ring for $55. Teressa wrote her parents a note saying, "We love each other, and we are going away. Please don't try to find us. 1 love you both." Police in London and in Edinburgh, Scotland, were alerted to search for the runaways.

David's father, toolmaker Herbert Duncan, 57, told newsmen in Luton Tuesday night he was preparing to go to Scotland to the search. DANCE to the music of the COUNTRY KINGS Sat. Night, Sept. 6 at Holer's PINEVIEW CLUB 3 mi. east and Vt mi.

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Mark Twain once explained humor as the difference between the right word and the wrong word. To me it's the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Douglas began complaining in the late 1930s through the mouths of Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Red Skelton and other top bananas of the time. He wrote many of their monologues. Through the years he has created barbs for Johnny Carson, Woody Allen, Garry Moore, Danny Thomas and Jimmy Durante. Television viewers will remember him as Jack Parr's early late-night sidekick.

Douglas says he "protests about almost everything." At the moment, he's griping about some people he got to know while living in Maine. Two years ago, he and his Japanese wife, Reiko, and their two young sons bought a hotel in the Rangeley Lakes section of the Pine Tree State, intending to convert it into a home. As Douglas explains it, after taking title to the deed, they learned they would have to run the resort complex as a hotel and that the people of the community depended on the hotel's financial failure as a primary source of income. The Douglases also learned that the hotel had had six owners in as many years and that, as Douglas says, "It was fixed to self-destroy." While Douglas aims at laughter in a book he has just written about his hotel misadventure, "Benedict Arnold Slept Here," he himself is not amused. He has initiated several law suits in the matter.

Hotel owning is only the latest of Douglas' professions. He was born in Thili, the son of a cable engineer, and began his professional life at age 14 playing drums in a band. He soon dropped his drumsticks for a pair of boxing gloves but before he sprouted cauliflower ears, he turned to writing comedy. He became a monologist and remembers playing Liverpool, England, where he founcl that his mettle wasn't strong enough for British audiences. "I worked there in vaudeville for a couple of years," he relates.

"Liverpool audiences are the toughest in the world. The theater I played in had a steel balcony in front ol the stage, and if the audience didn't like your act, they'd throw nuts and bolts at you. It got so 1 started dreaming of rotten tomatoes and old eggs." Douglas says he wants to be known as a humorist. "What irritates me is when people call me a 'gag You're a gag laughs, which is kind of a laugh that nieht. The only good thing a long time ago." HOLY SPIRIT'S FULL DINNER AND DUUR (Real fine beef!) SUNDAY, SEPT.

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