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Page ftB-The Gaffney Ledger, Wednesday. September 3a 1981 Joel's Wi New LP Song MM 81 Ml from "Turnstiles" isn't included. Joel decided he didn't want any hits on the album. He wanted obscure early songs now played the way he had intended them to sound when he wrote them. He says, "I never thought of any of the songs as throw-away.

Some I lost affection for quicker than others. She's Got a Way' from "Cold Stream Harbor' I thought was comball for years. I had trouble singing it at first. Then I got into it and decided everybody has a corny side, I suppose. "1 think we balanced it out with a linger, -Everybody Loves You Now, from the same album.

I could be to Hollywood." released first, was No. 48 and climbing on the Sept. 19 best-selling charts. It has 11 songs from bis first four albums, "Cold Spring Harbor." "Piano Man." "StreetlLe Serenade" and "Turnstiles." One track. "Captain Jack," recorded in the huge Spectrum in Philadelphia, is more than seven minutes long.

Anything, like "Piano Man," that Joel thought sounded a lot like it did when originally recorded, isn't included. Neither is "The Entertainer" or "James" which he decided didn't translate well to being played live. "New York State of Mind" By MARY CAMPBELL AP NcwtfMtam Writer Billy Joel always referred to the songi be wrote before he became famous with his 1977 album "The Stranger" a his tongs in tbe attic. Last year be decided to record them again, played by the band that has been with him for five years. So be took 32-track.

digital recording equipment with him to IS cities in June and July 1900 and recorded tbe entire shows he did. Now "Sonp in the Attic" by Billy Joel, with old pictures from bis sister's scrap-book, is a September release by Columbia Records. The single from it. "Say Goodbye just play. Sometimes I close my eyes and let the chords happen.

Tbe white keys are like teeth: they want to bite my fingers off. "I don't know where a song comes from. I wish I knew what I was doing when I was writing. The next time I'd say, okay, last time I did such and such. But I usually finish one song and say, how did I do that? It was the werewolf." Joel has a piano in his home, in case he thinks of a melody at night.

He says. "When I'm not near a piano it scares me. I write down chord letters. I did that with 'You May Be I wrote e. f.

e. c. g. I put it in my pocket and forgot about it. I found it in an old pair of jeans.

I couldn't figure out the phrasing of the notes or the octave. It was like a Chinese puzzle. "Finally I said. oh. I remember that.

I was starting to write it like a march." house sits on a sea wall. I've got a little dock. "I still have a place in the city. When I've got to get my fix of New York City stimulation. I go there and walk around.

I don't think you have to hear rock 'n' roll to get a rock roll feeling. "If I wear nice clothes, people recognize me. If I dress like a slob, they say. Nan. that can't be him.

What would he be doing here dressed like I hear a lot of the time that I look like Billy Joel. I tell them he's taller and better looking. In a club one night I heard a guy say to a friend. Look at this guy trying to pass himself off as Billy To me he said. 'Nice When he's writing music, Joel says, he gets up in the morning and goes with a cup of coffee to the piano in his studio near his house.

"Ninety days out of 100 I come up with nothing; the 10 days are worth the other 90. 1 so what they call new wave I thought was good and healthy for rock 'n' roll. It kind of starting to wear thin on me. The low-budget, purist sound is making me hungry for something with a little more meat on it." Joel says he's currently into nostalgia. He'd like to have an old-fashioned filling-station soda-pop cooler for his backyard, the kind where his hand freezes when he reaches among the floating blocks of ice for a bottle not a can.

Joel and his wife have a house on the north shore of Long Island. They used to live in the house on the cover of the "Glass Houses" LP. That was the first house they'd had but it proved to be too big and hard to take care of and they didn't want servants. It was also on a hill, with a good view. "It kind of drove me crazy," Joel says.

"I'd see the water but to get there was a big production. This previously made a live or a greatest hits album. He held this one to one LP instead of a double album, to hold down the cost to buyers. He says. "I was writing songs for the next album while we were mixing this.

It usually happens that one project overlaps the next. It is almost a way to overcome depression like some mothers feel after they have babies, not involved with it any more. I have to do something creative to feel like I'm still useful." He says he'll go into the studio in November. "The next album will be kind of like the 1960s rich kind of writing, complex, still melodic, whereas the last one, 'Glass was very lean and basic. We only had stuff on it that the band could do live.

The new stuff is going to have a lot of things going on. Maybe the Geveland Symphony will be on it; I want to do everything. "I think for the last year or venomous but I could also be a mush." At first, Joel just had in mind getting his "songs in the attic" on tape. 1 didn't know what I was going to do with the tape. I didn't even have a live album in mind.

"When we got off the tour I didn't want to listen to it; I'd been hearing it for three months. Then I finally listened. The older stuff really sounded good. In early 1981 we went to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and the idea took hold to maybe make an album of the older things. "When we got back.

I listened and it just reinforced the whole thing." Each song on the first four albums had been recorded several times. Microphones had been placed over the audience, too, so that sound heard in the auditoriums or clubs could be mixed with the sound taken from the stage. Joel finds many live albums a ripoff, so hadn't Sfidap Sapsr CHAINS Pit Now 'Most Serious' lift. rep.4425- $29.75 10 Off) legal and technical testimony on the landfill's pollution. Dr.

George Pinder, a Princeton University civil engineering professor, warned that the chemicals, some in quantities thousands of times higher than safe levels, are now within 1.000 feet of Atlantic City's Well 13, one of the dozen sunk in 1930. Unless something is done quickly, Pinder said, the chemicals will pollute the well within two years. That one well supplies 10 percent of Atlantic City's fresh water in the summertime. On Thursday, Brotman, ruling on preliminary motions, said the landfill's pre 'Open tpct itmOrf RepMf and CtAtom Wort Don on frtmat Littlejohn Participates neighbors and Atlantic City's municipal water supply for the better part of a decade. The chemicals include arsenic, benzene, lead, cadmium, chloroform, vinyl chloride and several industrial de-greasers.

Several are known carcinogens and all are oozing into the great Cohansey aquifer of the Pine Barrens, one of the East's purest and most plentiful ground water supplies. Few knew of the danger until two years ago. The Johnson family, like their working-class neighbors and Atlantic City officials, many years ago sank their fresh-water wells into the sandy soil six miles northwest of the Boardwalk. The water then was clean and sweet. Today, the Johnsons' tap spews battleship gray.

The water stains their modest bathroom tile and the linoleum floor. It smells like horseradish and turpentine. Johnson, a township employee, could not work in the months before his death on July 17. His widow and her attorneys blame the water for Johnson's medical problems, for her own unexplained rashes, for their daughter's headaches and for their grandson's need for leg braces. Recently, alarmed Atlantic City officials began scrambling to save their 12 wells, which supplied 90 percent of their water needs last year up to 15 million gallons a day Navy Gunner's Mate 3nd Class Elliott M.

Littlejohn, son of Myrtle E. Littlejohn of 103 Villa Drive, Gaffney, recently participated in three major exercises in the Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea. He is a crewmember aboard the destroyer USS Nicholson, homeported in Charleston. "Operation Ocean Venture 81," "Ocean Safari 81" and "Magic Sword South" provided him with a unique opportunity to experience realistic wartime conditions and visit many different countries at the same time. The largest maritime exercise in recent years, "Ocean Venture 81" is an eight-phase NATO exercise, involving Prices By PETER MATTIACE Associated Press Writer EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J.

(AP) -For most of his 62 years, Melvin Johnson lived next to a landfill, a gravel dig-turned-garbage dump named Price's Pit. Three years ago, he lost a kidney. Then emphysema struck, then bladder troubles. Melvin Johnson died this summer, just two months before a government attorney called the 22-acre dump "the most serious environmental problem in the United States." The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says industrial wastes dumped in Price's Pit in 1971 and 1972 have been silently threatening the Johnsons, at least 36 SI 29 fr E.

Says Delsey s0 BATHROOM TISSUE 2 SS $100 Luggage 'til 0 LB. OCi' 99 'All Samsonite Excluding sale items) Friday Mgtt 0K5 $7.50 or more order CTTT) for the city's 40,000 residents and millions of gambling tourists at the Boardwalk's new casino hotels. They are paying for a study to define the Price's Pit pollution and come up with solutions. They may drill five emergency wells. But instead of looking for new water near Price's officials believe they would be safer to seek fresh water closer to the Atlantic Ocean, deep within aquifers beneath their own beach.

The EPA, in a lawsuit filed last December and amended on Monday, characterized the landfill as the nation's most serious environmental problem because of the pollution threat to Atlantic City's water supply, said Charles Walsh, an assistant U.S. attorney in Newark. The EPA claims that nine disposal companies and 10 major industrial firms, including such giants as Procter Gamble Union Carbide Corp. and Honeywell are among those responsible for the dumping. The amendment to the suit named the companies allegedly involved in the dumping, thus making the suit the first legal action under new federal "superfund" legislation which established a billion-dollar fund to clean up pollution emergencies and hold guilty firms financially responsible.

This past spring, U.S. District Judge Stanley Brotman, sitting in Camden, heard NO sent and former owners are partly responsible for the ground water pollution. Brotman, calling Price's Pit "a grave hazard to human health," nevertheless rejected EPA attempts to have present and former owners immediately pay for Atlantic City's water study and to provide a pipeline for fresh water to the Johnson's neighborhood. A group of township residents near the landfill has filed a separate suit against the owners and state officials to have the pollution cleaned up and fresh water piped into the neighborhood. more than 120,000 personnel, 250 ships and 1,000 aircraft from 14 countries.

"Ocean Safari 81" and "Magic Sword South" included carrier battle-group operations, close convey escorts, mine counter-measures and tactical air support operations in northern and central Europe. Military units from Belgium, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the United States and France participated in the exercises. A 1978 graduate of Gaffney Senior High School, Littlejohn joined the Navy in July 1978. 1981. octobor bfolifosf spsciaG Come to Cherokee Food Mart No.

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