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FEE FOR FEE TE SEE AGE DEL EEC -Pausing at the Plaza Hotel, New York, are members of a new privileged class and one of the more successful rock groups, they are, from left, lead singer John Kay, Jerry Edmonton, George Biondo, Goldy McJohn and Larry Byrom. Bad Night in Garden City By Ann Hencken GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) The senior citizens on the Garden City Hotel veranda looked up, from their prosciutto and melon-in horror. A black limousine had disgorged a small band of long-haired hippie creatures which was distinctly headed for the lobby. A beady-eyed lady watched them.

"This generation will be running the country?" she lockjawed, stabbing a stuffed egg with her An elderly gentleman in summer linens barged past them chin down, hand on billfold pocket. The protective gesture, was rock unnecessary. group Step- This ing albums and single penwolf. With four million hits like "Born to be and "Magic Carpet they probably could buy and sell the old gentleman. They would earn $15,000 at their concert in Long Island that night.

They made about $3 million last year. It's not top money, but it's not bad for a bunch of freaky kids in a group assembled years ago. To the sedate citizens in the sedate lobby, these creatures represent an alien and highly suspect culture, rampant with drugs, sexual abandon--and freedom from the 9 to 5 grind. In short, they are unattractive, unnecessary, undesirable, unset- Your HOROSCOPE Today by Carroll Righter Rock Power ARIES (Mar. 21 to Apr.

19) The latter part of the day is most favorable for being with friends--there can be problems with them early in the day when tact should be used in dealing with everyone. TAURUS (Apr. 20 to Mov 20) Relegate social activities 1e evening for you could get yourself into one dilemma after another during the day. GEMINI (May 21 to June 21) New ideas are appalling, but do not come to any definite decisions until you have studied every angle of them well. MOON CHILDREN (June 22 to July 21) Being conscientious in handling obligations instead of trying to get out of them is your best mode of operating now.

Show patience with one during day. VIRGO (Aug. 22 to Sept. 22) Make sure you get that work done although it is not to your liking. Keep your promise.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Afternoon is the best time for you to join with congenial friends for recreation, for good humor will prevail then. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov.

21) Those vexing affairs at home seem difficult to solve, but if you relax and adopt a different attitude, all will ease up naturally. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Early morning services are the best way for you to get in the right spirit of things for the rest of the day and evening. Show that you are a person who likes and thinks of others' welfare.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 20) Try not to be extravagant early in the day and then you can have a fine time with persons you like. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 to Feb.

19) You feel like forcing your views on others, but this would only get you in Dutch and prevent you from having a happy evening. PISCES (Feb. 20 to Mar. 20) Trying to renege on promises you made could be very bad, so stick to them and get approval of higher-ups. Off the Record The News and Observer, Sunday, Bessie Smith Redone By Raymond Lowery Staff Writer One hot, day a few months ago, hauled out the four Bessie Smith albums that Columbia Records assembled in the early 1950s, washed them and listened again to "the empress of the blues," accompanied by a cacophony of surface noises snap, crackle and pop! and background disturbances impossible to describe: something like tape hiss.

I couldn't listen to all eight sides. Transferred from the original .78 masters, most of them 40 years old, the 1951 series was not too clean, audiowise, to begin with. Now the years, repeated playings and dust-filled grooves taken a heavy toll. If Columbia's John Hammond had not just disclosed plans for reissuing the records, I would have gone right out and bought another set. Because no record collector with any feeling at all for jazz or the blues ought to try to get along without a Bessie Smith album in the house.

Hammond not only planned to reissue "The Bessie Smith Story," but the singer's entire recorded repertory. There would be 160 sides all that is known to exist of the 180 sides she made for Columbia between 1923 and 1931. They would be packaged in five sets of two LPs and each set priced at scarcely more than you pay for a single album. And the sound quality of the recordings (it was a promise!) would be considerably improved. Last week brought the first set Bessie Smith, The World's Greatest Blues Singer containing her 16 earliest and 16 last recordings, or from "Down Hearted Blues" to "Down in the Dumps." the use of equilization or octave filters, it's explained by Columbia, surface noise has been virtually eliminated.

The system has dropped out most extraneous noises without affecting the sound of the music. Echo was not added as in 1951, when Columbia's engineers believed that echo enhanced old recordings. Nor rechanneling for stereo, either thank goodness! Just fairly good to somewhat better monophonic sound. Sister Bessie was a big majestic woman who stood fivefeet-nine-inches tall and weighed over 200 pounds. She had a voice to match her stature, a full rich contralto of seemingly limitless power.

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GASTON DRIVE-IN Barry Newman Harold Gould "THE LAWYER" (R) also Sammy Davis Peter Lawford "ONE MORE TIME" She was a mistress of blues inflection. She could hit notes straight or "bend" them. She could phrase lyrics to wring every shade meaning and feeling out of them. She drew on the old, deep, country source of the blues. She was influenced by Ma Rainey's direct earthy approach to the blues.

But she was capable of greater range vocal and emotional than Ma. Almost every jazz musician of note came to record with Bessie at one time or another. Accompanying her on the recordings in this initial set: pianists Clarence Williams, Fletcher, Henderson and James P. Johnson, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Charlie Green, tenor saxist Chu Berry, clarinetist Benny Goodman and trumpeter Frankie Newton, among others. Some of her better-known numbers, included in the earlier series, are offered here.

Among them are "Black Mountain Blues," "Gimme a Pigfoot," "Take Me for a Buggy Ride," "Do You Duty" a and "Keeps on Of the "new" ones, I particularly liked "'Hustlin' Dan," enhanced by Ed Allen's sympathetic cornet, and the five or six blues with pianist Fletcher Henderson as accompanist. There are also a number of pornographic songs, including "Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine" and "I a Little Sugar in My Bowl." They are mild indeed to several Hammond plans to include in a future set. Incidentally, Hammond hasn't given up the search for those 20 missing Bessie Smith sides. Jimmy Thiem, collector and record shop proprietor here, recently wrote the Columbia producer about two rare Smith sides he owns (in the '30s and '40s, collectors paid up to $30 for battered HOWELL CINEMA Smithfield Clinton Clint EASTWOOD Shirley MacLAINE "TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA" COUNTY DR-IN Smithfield "PUSSYCAT, PUSSYCAT I LOVE YOU" CLINTON Clinton Tony CURTIS Charles BRONSON "YOU CAN'T WIN THEM ALL" EARL Ahoskie Jack LEMMON Sandy DENNIS "OUT-OF-TOWNERS" FOREST DR-IN Durham "MORE" "THIS REBEL BREED" STARLITE DR-IN Durham Rock HUDSON Julie ANDREWS "DARLING LILI" IN A JOB RUT? Train for a HIGH PAY MOTEL MANAGEMENT CAREER Regardless of your present occupation, the way to fuller and more rewarding life open when you enter a motel career. Age is no barrier.

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They both share the privileges and headaches of the rich. Steppenwolf can afford luxuries, hire employees and buy isolation from unpleasantness along with the best Long Island businessmen. Steppenwolf's solvency allows them to avoid six-week tours, tackled by less successful bands. Instead, they fly out from Los Angeles only on weekends. The five-member group travels with three assistants.

They may spend $3,500 per weekend on air fare and $300 a night on hotel bills. British road manager Pierre Vickers nips around with $2,000 in cash for essentials. Before the Garden City con-while sound and equipment men wrestled with electrical problems at the concert halt the group dressed in al their $75-a-day suite. John Kay, the lead singer, was due any minute from New York City. "Waiting," sighs organist Goldy McJohn, fastening the beaded wristlets that match the loin cloth worn over his pants.

"What's that intense noise? Rain?" he wandered to the window. It ugly night, dark and dreary. George Biondo, bass guitarist, and Larry Byrom, lead, settled onto the couch. Larry wore brown suede shirt and pants, part of a wardrobe enriched by $500 a month in new purchases, he said. "It's really a mess down there.

Nobody's organized," said drummer Jerry Edmonton, entering the room. They were going to be very late SO they ordered up a single bottle of white wine and turned to the TV. The mood had slipped from subdued to somber. "Maybe we'll be late enough to see Hogan's Heroes," SOmeone suggested cheerfully. They were.

"Wonderful, wonderful," said John Kay, striding confidently into the room at last. Tall, with a lean, tanned, muscular body, adjusted the spectacular silver and turquoise belt on his skin-tight leather pants and glanced at the high ceilings and elegant furniture. "This place looks like a country cottage version of the Plaza," he said. The Symbolism As the moving force, behind the group, he there at beginning when they named themselves after Herman Hesse's novel," a symbol of man's alienation from man and civilization." He was there when the group gigged Southern California clubs for $250 a night, and traveled the gruelling six-week tours inflicted on struggling bands. At age 26, he's happy to have hit a plateau above the scuffling.

"Tours are wretched, monotonous and boring," said John. "The cleaners ruin your clothes. You get no sleep. You play the same number every night for six weeks. "In Birmingham, they liked us, but they didn't know what were.

They're just out of the Gary Puckett and the Union Gap stage. "Lubbock, Amarillo, Greensburg, Hattiesburg--all those places look the same. The people look the same. "The kids apologize for the town. You could sit around and watch the cigar store Indian rot away.

"Would we like to go to Lincoln Memorial Park? "No, man, I've seen statues with bird doo on them before," he says. Once in Indianapolis, the group got off a plane, tired and hungry. A GI commented loudly, "I wonder what that thing's mother was." "I hope you get shot," said one of the group. "All Mr. and Mrs.

America get to see of long hairs is the 'Mod Squad' on TV." said John. "They see us in real life, and they do a Daffy Duck all over town. Beep! Beep! Beep! NY Philharmonic to Appear Regarded as one of the largest and most successful concert series in the United States, the Friends of the College opens its 12th season on September 17 when the New York Philharmonic appears in the William Neal Reynolds Coliseum. Under the baton of Seiji Ozawa, who this year became Music Director of the San Francisco. Symphony Director as of well the Berkshire Music Center and whose association with the York Philharmonic dates back to 1961, the orchestra will perform Mendelssohn's Symphony No.

4, A major, Opus 90 Copeland's Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra and Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Stanley Drucker, the orchestra's principal clarinetist since 1960, will soloist for the Copland Concerto. Drucker distinguished himself as an orchestra member and as a soloist, performing the major works for his instrument at Philharmonic concerts. In addition, he performs frequently with chamber groups, notably the Juilliard String Quartet and the New York Philharmonic Chamber Quintet. In 1968 he joined the faculty of the Juilliard School where he instructs a select group of clarinetists.

The Philharmonic's historic tours, to 1909, its many broadcasts and recordings, have established a unique kinship the orchestra and generations of music lovers in all lands. In recent years the orchestra has become even more familiar to both national audiences through its Young People's Concerts and telecasts and local audiences through the orchestra's free summer park concerts in all the boroughs of New York City. In September 1962, the orchestra gave the inaugural concert at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall, now the Orchestra's permanent home. Admission to all Friends of the College concerts is by JUMBLE, by that HENRI scrambled ARNOLD and word BOB game LEE Unscramble these six Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form six ordinary words. ENSCOD GURFEE SOWDRY REDAIM YULNOH WHAT COLOR DID HE PAINT THE SUN AND THE WIND? TESKAB 1900 World he The Rights Chirago Reserved Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

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