Evening Post from Bristol, Avon, England • 4

POOR EVENING W5T SAT US DAY AUGUST 9 1964 Tribute to a top trumpet star With half its Tsp Tea best selling coning from Britain America can no longer be accused of being isolationist in her nnsle Bobby Brown a pleasant 23-year-oid Scot was born in a coal cellar in Glasgow during an air raid Ills father produce hi mother was a singer tap dancer and circus bare back rider: he has three unciea with variety shows in Ireland: one cousin singing with 3 dance band in Dublin: another running a night dub somewhere in Africa it wasn't surprising that Bobb went l'o show business He has shot rapidly from Boy Comedian (aged si via drama school and By Roger Bennett Butiins to the job of lop disc jockey on th big Top Rank circuit And his ambition doesn't end there I'm doing alternate weeks in the ballrooms and on Radio Caroline getting myself known got a fan club with a ecretary dealing with about 1000 letters a week By next February I think 1 should have enough experience and reputation to have a crack at a pretty dosed shop but I'm determined to get in I have great admiration for some of the top men say Jimmy Savilie who's a real personality But I reckon I can be up there with him At the moment Bobby is a cross between a sergeant major and a mother to Top Rank's 90 young DJs He helps to pick them train them then darts around Britain sorting out their problems and keeping them on their toes PERSONALITY do eight weeka' said Bobby I give them sheer hell There's nothing cushy about learning to be a disc jockey These lads come along fancying themselves as junior versions of David Jacobs or Alan Freeman I've got to knock that out of their heads for a start The number one rule for a new DJ is to be himself We pick lads with personality and we want to see them acting as themselves not as someone else So 1 really lam ino them criticise ruthlessly Some of For complete stocks of all Leading Records BRISTOL COl QINtMl 0 Tt MXH IP tAST ST tea Ti MiSBt as etoveesnt to mail PARK STRUT Tot 23U6 SPECIALISTS O- CLASSICAL RECORDS FOLK MUSIC 1AZZ CONTINENTAL STEREO ate RECORD CABINETS awd CASES them are in tears by the time through But it works 1 put them in an empty ballroom give them five records to play and tell them to entertain me Then I tear their act to shreds uiriil they get it right Soane of thorn talk too much Some talk too fast no good They have to know their stuff put it over short and sharp and play the records in the right order If there's a pause between the talking and the music 1 tell them to start again I'm never satisfied And if I was 1 wouldn teU them" RELAXING I Bobby is enjoying Radio Caroline stmt as a pirate disc spinner booked a an able sea man am I have to salute the 1 captain when I go on board 1 get four square meals a day 100 THIS RELIGION WITH A TWIST IS A HIT The Rev Ernest Marvin energetic young minister of a Bristol estate church has been getting nasty letters for the past four years They have all threatened him with fire and brimstone for daring to mix pop music with religion in the remarkable beat Passion play "A Man He will probably ge: a few more now that The music has been issued on a new Columbia LP Man but 1 am qute sure be won turn a hair For the narrow-minded people who flung their bands up in horror at the whole business have been outnumbered considerably by those who have found the play a sincere and moving attempt to represent Christianity in the language of the modern teenager The record will be enjoyed most by the people who have seen the plav on the stage or on tievmon Musically it may not be outstanding but is extremefer peasant The tunes are mostly simple and catchy and the words are ckMff The record does nothing but good for the reputations of lead singers Valerie Mountain and Ricky Forde and the instrumental group the Strangers cigarettes a week and two free drinks a day spin discs for two hour every rooming and afternoon and spend the rest of the time preparing programmes genning myself up on the scene and relaxing with the odd card BAGPIPES He likes rhythm and blues says it was great compering stage shows by Jerry Lee Lewis and Duke DMond and knows most of what there is to know about the pop world But also like a true Scot he plays the bagpipes Every time I go home I put on ray kilt and all the rest of my national gear and march up and down the backyard playing Scotland the Brave with two collie dogs at my heels I also play pop tunes on the pipes But strictly in private With cotton wool in my tribute to bias from another star trumpet mas Bobby Backets who devotes aa entire UP Rackets days the mask of Bert to the compositions of the German or taaes very closely associated with him The result is a Jey of mellow soulful horn and a striking contrast to the more strident original treatment given by Kaempferl To coincide with his trip to England far concerto and TV Liberty have released a pair of Items by Leon Bibb a folk singer of dis-ti action "Cherries and a strange little story of a child's world End one to tell my troubles both of which are charming but too slight I fear to appeal to anv but the most discerning As a composer Country and Western singer Bill Anderson has achieved notable success his biggest recent hits were and "Eight by and new he emerges as a most-pleading singer weaving his way attract! vetv through "Cincinnati Ohio" and (Brunswick) two more of his compositions Wiih much of music played by and for teenagers it makes a pleasant change to encounter the 72 year old classical and light music conductor Arthur FledJer proving that he too la it" and with veterans of the Boston Promenade Orchestra here called the Boston Pops Orchestra giving a powerful punchy performance of two recent chart-entrants "1 want to hold your hand" and (BCA) an effervescent hit of fun and has already attracted healthy American sales Just when we were despairing that none of our girl singers seems able to sing without an echo-chamber and a multi-track tape recorder who should come along but Use incomparable Kay Starr content to let her fine big voice and supreme timing say ail that needs to be said about happening all over again" and "Dancing on my tears" (Capitol) Van "Huntington (Hickory) is a powerhouse rhythm dished ap with a non-stop organ heat and some incidental vocal effects without any apologies or credit to Wagner from whose the theme is taken Ferrante and Teicher the American piano duo give The Seven th Dawn (United Artists) a film theme their customary embroidered treatment and are good value for their fans with the coupling a smooth "You re too Thomus RBO Craomo Burton (bass) Roger Marsh and tenor) Betr Findon (lead guitar) John Richardson (drums) and Rod Ellis (singer) American soldiers lay on tfceir backs and yelled with delight as the RBQ Bristol University rhythm and blues group played nine encores of I salt" never had such -I a reception" said drummer John Richardaon when the group returned this week from their 28-day 4000-mile tour of chibs and army bases in Germany The RBQ broadcast frogi the famous Star Club in Hamburg and turned down several recording offers "we make i record until we can follow It up properly with personal appear ances And we won't go professional until got our They will play around Bristol for the summer vacation and hope to go back to Germany at Christmas "We went down best at the American said John "The German audiences don't seem to have caught on to and properly yet But the Americans loved At one base a soldier stocked away in the van in a bid to desert from the Army got court martialled" said John In another town two girl stowed away behind an amplifier in the van They court $nartialled The group' tan Getrucfe by through Germany: then ran out they got back to Bristol 1 (1) Hard Days Night Beatles (Parlophone) 2 (-) Do Wah Manfred Mann (HMV) 3 (2) All Over Now Ruling Stones (Decea) 4 (3) Call Up The GroupsBarron-Knights (Columbia) 5 (S) 1 Forget lm Reeve (RCA) POST CROSSWORD name took them trouble free of petrol on The Centre when.