The Morning Press from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania • 24

C-6 Saturday-Sundayt' September 15-16 1979 tOlt jl goes iazz VARpeNAAPL Asaoctertbrsaa Taffy SiipOfl'and Libby Titus srbteiBeirowntyrtcs Butmore thanthat32 the whole sound is very jazs-like and definitely not the kind of stuff you bear on most radio stations these days Which all means that going to be a little tougher to sell than the easy pop vocals that put Bacharach into a position to indulge ms passion for thoroughbreds end buy a beach house in Dei Mar So tennis-court tan set 6ff by a casual whlte-on-whlte sweater and shirt ensemble Bacharach slides into a Century City bar to talk about musical integrity ahdhewiHrectibni LOS ANGELES AP) Burt publicists start offering entertainment writers free plane trip to hear his new show at Lake Tahoe you have to figure afoot After all Bacharach la not exactly an unknown commodity Working with lyricist Hal David the guy churned out doeensof top 40 hlU over a 10-year period' BfppteHhe Dionne Warwick and the Carpenters Not to mention couple of notable film scores like New and Caaaidy hnd the Sundance Kid" and a Broadway musical Come to think of it though we bean hearing much from Bacharach lately aside from gossip column stuff On hls aeparation from his wife actress Angie Turntable- know this new musk is much more extreme' much more different than anything that ever done but it's the way I fed right nowMw says earnestly rolling a glass of ginger ale between his By KIMMcNALLY ftoss-Gntuprioe fllsff HEAD GAMES Foreigisr Atlantic 8D-' "My music Is very reflective of how feeling If you said to me write another song like Maks Me I know how to write a song like that anymore You go back And I never Will Stay Besides hs adds never bean afraid to trv somethine new wrote things were pwt the grain all my life without being intentional abodt It odd bar- lines odd time signatures things that limfM play In the studio when we were recording that bands play in the theaters I was always kind of swimming ifpstream breaking He worked with David In three or four years his last big personal recording tccess in fact was the soundtrack and that goes back quite ways What's ha up to now anyway? The answer and the reason for the Invitation In the mail' in the form of new album a coDecaonhrdiestra music performed by the Houston Symphony and a radical departure from "Raindrops Keep Falling on lfy For starters only a little vocal work on two of the songs performed tqr Burt Bacharach Let Mick Jones alone Let the lead guitarist ant director done and he writes songs that glveForeigper some meaning But let" Jones and lead vocalist Lou Gramm get i together as they did in writing the title song and most of the first side of the new album and all you get is more BloodedCoid As IceDoUble Vision" very little about this album feat's exciting or new and whet then Is is Janes' work Side One is uninspiring unti the needle hits the third band Here Jones takas Foreigner sway from the lyrics that take bp most of the LP and gives them that if it sounds like The Cars at least has words with force and the music to back them up: Women that you write aongsabout Women that tuna eroutd and kick you ouf Women you dream about an your life Women Out aUb yon in the beck with a awl tchblade knife The other four songs on the especially "Love On The Telephone" may be more popular tingles material but they lack substance the lyrics rehash already threadbare themes and so does the music nothing memorable at all Side Two picks up with the three best songs on the album aU of which follow the ponderous title cut which is another end me baby I take it number Jones' "Modern is the only upbeat song here and Its ilmpis dean sound and -message are a precious relief nothing great about It but nice and features good acoustic guitar work in the By Tha Associated Press- The following are hot record hits for the week ending Sept a as they appear In next issue of Billboard is ii a -it a a at is ti it ta at at IB 17 10 14 to 90 HOT SINGLES 1 "My The Knock (Capitol) The Love Has Gone" Earth Wind A Fire (Arc) 3 Devil Went Down To Charlie Daniels Band (Epic) 4 Herb Alpert AAM) A Me Maxine Nightingale (Wlndsang) A Robert John (EMI) 7 Little River Band (Capitol) A Never Love Thls Way Agnln-Dkmne Warwick (Arista) A On" Commodores (Motown) 10 Bring Me Electric 'Light Orchestra (Jet) TOP IP's 1 Through The Out Lad Zeppelin (Swan Song) A The The Knack (Capital) -A Train Bob Dylan (Columbia) A In America" Supertramp (AAM) A Chic (Atlantic) A The Michael Jackson (Epic) 7 Magic" Commodores (Motown) A "I Am" Earth Wind A Flret Arc) 9 Cars (Elektra) 10 What A Robin Williams (CasaManca) tw TOP 30 ft let 1 lONHOMItOSta Utile Maori 1 SMITH inMelWe a AFTM TMLOVI MAS OOtlf SerfhWMAnf 4 I'll NIVH LOVE THIS WAT AO AIN Werwldl BONT Bento Nil DOWN ItecSrk UflM Orchestra 4 FOBMUZIK IS 7 SAIL ON CmomImm a bmcahoiioviiiotou 0 MTSMASONA Ke IB BIMIHIITMMaajillHhlltfl II UABMION sine Nlsht Inset 11 OOOOBYI STBAMMB it aits Mliiimrirrivii ifiiaaiiiiianrria Math Alport 14 MIAVIN MUST NAVI SHIT TOU Beeele Feint It DIM AUTMIUOMTS Peeee Sweeier IS OOOBTIMH Chic 17 OUIL TO SI KIND NUUee IS SFOOKV luiiiii Atleete Bhhm Section 10 OIT IT SKWT NIXTTIMI -0nyBHry to urtao ai WMiri mu you whin i was falumo Lobe at THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO OSOttH A ta THE MAIN EVENT as DEPENDIN' ON TOU as BIT IT UP Bonnie Mlleap SO THAT A SMAMS' Cheep Tilth 17 lOVUrTOUOUN' SQUEEZIN' Jeemoy aa DON'T (TOP TUI TOUOETENOUOH Michael Jackie SO NOT SUMMH NIOHTS Nlfht aa DiFnaniTwoeus LISTEN KM TNI TOO 80 COUNT DOWN IVEBT MONDAT STABTINO AT SIX PAL fOUOWEDBT TNI ALBUM COUNT DOWN ON SS-WHLM AND FJMT0S lANil "Blinded By Science" (byJones) is the most interesting The background harmonies mark it as Foreigner material but synthesiser work by At Greenwood nukes it sound like earty Emerson Lake A Palmer a wondering song about the future: Blinded by adence on the ran not an appUance donV turn uHf on What You fallows opening with a distinct Beatles sound and Gramm vocals that sound very much like Paul -McCartney This is the only song on the LP that gels Foreigner sounding like working together as a group with overlapping vocal choruses and clever lyrics by Gramm and guitarkey board player Ian McDonald These are the good songs The rest of Foreigner's latest are enough to induce xenophobia- IS S7.