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Daily Breeze Sun Sept 2 1973 Roger Miller Laughing his way through song writing has come a new album aptly titled by Miller Folks Sorry I Written Miller owner of five Grammy Awards has kept active even though he recording He works in Las Vegas and does concert tours just got back from a concert tour of he said usually only travel during the summer months because I like to go on the road too much anymore And when I do go I like to be able to take my family with Miller smiled again that easy comfortable smile of a man who appears happy and confident and is enjoying life and his work it got so hard I just do it So I stopped writing for four or five Miller estimates written more than 400 songs over the years including such hits as of the and Many of them were written on matchbook covers napkins just anything that was handy not surprising that he lost as many as he retained I write anything for two years but in 1 began work on the songs and score for the animated version of for Walt he said I write any commercial songs until With the resumption of his Music calendar CONCERTS Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Steely Dan with Stevenson 8 pm today Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin 7 and 10 pm Tuesday Barnsdall Park Deltra Eamon soprano and Laurindo Almeida guitar 4:30 pm today Hollywood Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles Philharmonic BachiSt John Passion 8:30 pm Tuesday Watts and Foster in Brahms and Prokofieff 8:30 pm Thursday Invitation to the Dance 8:30 pm Saturday Elton John and Sutherland Bros and Quiver 8 pm Friday Hollywood Long Beach Arena Elton John 8 pm Saturday Amphitheater The 5th Dimension and Blood Sweat and Tears 8:30 pm Wednesday through nextSunday Bette Midler 8 30 pm Sept 10 through Sept 16 Universal City Forum Jackson 5 7:30 pm today Inglewood CLUBS Ash Grove Jimmy Smith tonight John Klemmer Tuesday through Sept 9 Hollywood Concerts by the Sea Freddie Hubbard tonight Jimmy Smith Tuesday through Sept 9 Redondo Beach Century Plaza Westside Room Horace Heidt Jr Century City Ice Denny Brooks tonight Mag Wheels and the Lug Nuts Monday through Sept 9 Pasadena The Lighthouse Teddy Edwards and Harold land tonight James Moody Tuesday through Sept 9 Hermosa Beach Troubadour Dave Mason and David Ackles tonight Earl Scruggs Revue Tuesday through Sept 9 West Hollywood Whisky New York Dolls tonight Dr Bob and the Headliners Wednesday through Sept 9 Hollywood PARKS Disneyland Four Tops 10 pm and midnight today through Friday Gladys Knight and te Pips at 10 pm and midnight Saturday Tomorrowland Stage Buddy Rich at 9 and 11 pm today through Saturday Plaza Gardens Anaheim Berry Farm James Darren 6:30 8:30 10:30 pm today and Monday Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods 630 8:30 10:30 pm Tuesday through Friday Davy Jones 6:30 8:30 10:30 pm Saturday Buena Park Magic Mountain Jim Nabors 8 and 10 pm today Roger Williams 8 and 10 pm Monday through Sept 9 Valencia also learned that more enjoyable if you try to live it in the higher said Miller who makes his home in the San Fernando Valley try not to carry the weight of the world on my There was a time when there was a lot of weight on his shoulders but now he jokes about his ill-fated television variety show A show that was so bad that it nearly ruined his career was simply a case of bad timing They put my show on at night and they had the nerve to put on other shows opposite he said again crinkling his face with a broad grin it was me It was too early in my Miller confided have the backbone to tell the producers that the show right for me getting some nibbles now for another series but variety is dead on he said know that a stock goes up if got a TV show but so far not sure which way going to It long after the demise of his television show that Miller a prolific songwriter lost his touch just laid the whole thing said Miller Johnny Mercer a great lyricist himself once referred to as a American had all come so easy to me writing he said Bach at the Bowl Hollywood ninth week of Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts begins with the dramatic religiosity of According to St Tuesday Conductor Lukas Foss has for his soloists soprano Susan Belling mezzo Joanna Simon tenors Roger Patterson and Michael Sells baritone Douglas Lawrence bass James Morris and bass-baritone Arthur Edwards Pianist Andre Watts joins conductor Lawrence Foster for Thursday concert Watts will play Piano Concerto No 2 program will feature Allegra Kent and Edward Villella in excerpts from Act 2 of and to a new ballet choreographed by Villella to five songs by Cole Porter Andre Kostelanetz will lead the orchestra in ballet music by Prokofieff Copland Glazunov and Weber All performances begin at 8: 30 pm Ticket information is available by calling 87-MUSIC By Ron Wells Copley News Service DEL MAR Calif Roger Miller eased himself into an overstuffed chair and sighed His shirt was partially unbuttoned and he was hot and tired He had just finished an outdoor matinee performance of the county fair and had another performance scheduled for the evening it is warm and this place have any air he said surveying the orange and yellow Spanish-style living room of his hotel suite gotta get some rest but this place is just too dang "warm for His face crinkled into a broad easy smile and his eyes showed that he trying to be temperamental or create problems for the harried hotel staff Being the owner of four hotels two in Tennessee and one each in South Carolina and Georgia he understands the problems which often arise in the hotel business In fact Miller is no stranger to problems had his share yet the easy comfortable style that he exhibits on stage is even more evident in private been good to me and trying to be good to he said used to get all messed up with those dang pills But now put my life in order I know myself better now Jom Mitchell Roger Miller Leonard Cohen and others He performs them without a flaw as he did initially on several other albums But he puts very little more into them than his voice A selection of his own colors would be preferred like the browns and grays and city neon colors of his early potent New York compositions Hopefully that is forthcoming Robert Murphy Jazz Art of John Coltrane: The Atlantic John Coltrane (Atlantic) John Coltrane died July of 1967 at the age of 40 Sears Song writer-singer Roger Miller has come a long way from his bellhop days in Nashville After a TV show that flopped and a lyric draught he's working and writing again Record reviews Summer brings a garage sale record company C6 tice for the first Tamborine album But in its imperfections and total lack of professional mixing more of the individuals can be heard in what became group harmonies It stand up against any of the albums made by the original five Byrds (or any by the later-original four) But it is an educational and modestly entertaining album worth being kept around Thunderclap album was originally released on Atlantic Records But since its map for egotistical he was a man consumed by the rightness of his judgment: He was also possibly the single greatest manipulator of public opinion in the 20th century John and Miml (Bantam $150) by John and Mimi Ix)bell is the controversial blueprint for sexual exploration that takes the reader into a new realm of sensual pleasures They are real people and this is the real and sometimes shocking story of their struggle to achieve total sexual freedom without sacrificing their marriage Their solution to a dilemma that millions of couples are experiencing today solid sample of pseudo-satirical and slightly-political rock-founded rambling The is so mellow and so conscius of sounding epochal that it is a challenge to enjoy it as a simple album It is worth re-release only to prove the initial raving was temporary confusion Neil on MCA is a sandwich of pastels projected on the easy-listening sky with the help of mirrors He put none of the colors there himself They are those of Fred Neil He had been a professional musician for about 20 years But he only had begun to give the music world his own peculiar genius Coltrane was not only a master stylist of the saxophone (He could play the three octaves impeccably) but he was a composer and technician of unparalleled originality He wrote much of the music he played including Song "Mr to and all on this double album Coltrane started playing professionally in 1945 He joined Dizzy Gillespie in 1949 then he was with Earl Bostic Johnny Hodges and Miles Davis Something old called something new seems to be the game thig month with release of a previously released album re-release of the one and only Thunderclap Neman al-butn as wgll as a of i) amond-sung but not Neil-written songs irst and somehow best is the Byrds album originally released at the end of the in time to catch the Byrds going their separate ways It was actually recorded as prac Book review rA road producer Pete Townshend is thoroughly allied to MCA via his Track Records) and since the group lead vocalist Speedy Keen is similarly connected MCA obviously thought purchase and re-release was at least a good investment On its first release was critically acclaimed as the of the year probably because most critics speculated far too deeply about the real identity of the group and not enough about the content In fact the album is a semi- the wave But it until 1957 when Trane joined Thelonious Monk that he began to be noticed The powerful alliance told the world that Trane had arrived Listen to the pure tones that are strictly Coltrane He is said to have been strongly influenced by Coleman Hawkins and Dexter Gordon but the style that evolved is Coltrane If you are interested in finding what jazz sax is all about Coltrane is a fine place to begin and end Lechman Soul View From Another Wayne Davis (Atlantic Records) Identifying Wayne Davis as easy as some LET'S GO ROLLER SKATING SAT i SUN AFTERNOON 1:30 TO 400 PM OR 3 TO 5:10 PM PER PERSON style others but his performance at the Amphitheatre the other night was surely no accident He is an accomplished artist with thoughts and ideas of his own The name Roberta Flack may or may not help sales She produced the album arranged it with Davis played background piano on one number and wrote the six-sentence liner notes And allowed Davis several precious minutes to identify himself on her current tour All the man needs really is exposure been around awhile and has a following But take more than a following to make this a hit Otherwise just sit on the shelves Morrow 1851 Mullin ftve Torrance 978 7150 Hnrth ot Tnrnnce But 1 Black West ol Western Ave ICE ARENA 23770 Wmtern Harbor City 325-4474 WITH THIS COUPON EYES 730 to 10 PM $100 50 OFFER EXPIRES SEPT 30 1973 SUmuci SldltttfaM 9 1 Heck a complete guide to the California Coast by Bank Wright Manana Publishing Corp $295 a long-time beach resident said the other day after picking up a copy of one of the most thorough studies of the beach ever put together Young Bank Wright with encouragement from his Redondo Beach publisher has compiled his second study of surfing beaches (the other "Surfing came out a year or so ago) and as valuable as any road map The book complete with diagrams and photographs attempts to show where at and where not from the southern bp of Oregon to Coronado Beach and the Tijuana Sloughs in Mexico a big undertaking to be sure but Wright has it all right there and one surely complain he wasn't forew arned about south winds west swells the super tubes of entura Point or hatever His chapters deal with seasons swell direction winds tides and the various locales from Northern California to Mexico Maps point out all spots mentioned and there are tips to vacationers such as where to camp out what to expect from the people beach accessibility and so on A typical report this one on the Redondo Beach breakwater: powerful winter break Northern lines focus onto outside reef developing into steep shifting peaks with grinding left walls Ends in murderous shorepound Requires at least 6-15 foot swell Medium-low tide Smaller surf is typical beach break to-nule north of jetty Comment: Small surf is routine needs size before it cooks" Almost 300 beaches are surveyed ith such exotic names as Zero above Zuma near Point Conception) Pidgeon Point a couple of miles north of Santa Cruz)) and No Surf (near Point Ixmia it's worth getting wet Wright says) The book has token a lot of the guesswork out of the game and some oldtimers may not like that But it fibs nicely in the glove compartment of the car and that's here it should be Mike Morrow Summer Skating Specials 1 -Ycru will receive: Two group lessons One show technique class Seven days of unlimited public skating Free skate rental if needed Thi' offer is good any seven con'cutive days of the summer riders novel by Dan Jenkins is the funniest dirty book about football and football players ever The author's characters are funnier bawdier and more talented than their real life counterparts The book is a 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