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The first singing COWboy the examiner Thursday Nov 23 1978 17 is too busy to sing now By NANCY ANDERSON Copley News Service HOLLYWOOD The Gold Record much coveted by plat ter stars was invented or Gene Autry whod already invented the singing cowboy Or rather Autry was the screens first singing cowboy if one doesnt count John Wayne To be precise it was Herb Yates boss at Mascot Pictures later Republic who got the nation that crooner on horseback would be money in the bank so he had young ac tor fresh off the USC football team mouth lyrics at full trot while dubbed voice carried the tune However the young actor Wayne was balkier than his horse and said he felt like fool so he was replaced by another young actor named Gene Autry who could sing with his own voice while riding Waynes good friend of mine Autry said the other day during an interview at the hotel he owns in Palm Springs and hes often told me If Id been able to sing would have been tle firstsinging cowboy But tell him that it wasnt my singing that got me the ti tle ltwas my fine acting FOUR MEDIA STAR star of four media radio movies records and television Autry won the first Gold Record for That SilverHaired Daddy of Mine when his piblicist the late Bev Bamett thought up the award Id made the record in 1930 butI didnt get the award until 1934 Autry said Which was when it occurred to Barnett that the recognition would be newsworthy Autry Texan whod worked as railroad telegrapher in Oklahoma became radio singer and recording artist in 1925 singing on with Columbia Records On screen from 1934 through 1954 he was the No Western star at the box office from 1937 through 1942 when he went into the US Army Air Force as flight officer From 1947 through 154 the year he retired from the screen he placed second in box office polls behind Roy Rogers Fur ther from 1910 through 1942 he was among the Top Ten stars of all classes at theatre box of fices Ann Rutherford Autrys leading lady in his second pic ture Melody Trail has reminisced that he had his fan mail brought to him on loca tion and after days work painstakingly answered every letter New Tucker album gives fans blast By MICHAEL LAWSON The Canadian Press As the title of Tanya Tuckers new albumTNTwould sug gest fans had better prepare themselves for blast As the cover photo would indicate fans can expect drastic change No misleading packaging hereyou see it all before you hear it And the dust settles in the aftershock all that remains of the former Tanya Tucker is her fan club still based in the music worlds country and western capital Nashville Tenn With the release of TNT Tucker has pulled up her musi cal roots to join the ranks of rock rollers Its drastic change that may cost her some fans but itsa gamble she takes with styleand some imlt peccable direction Tanya has shelved her for mer image Check out your earlier Tucker albums against TNT Gone is the girl next door with hint of pout replaced by raunchy blonde in clothes that fit like an extra layer of skin Gone are the hurting hamio files of Almost Persuaded and Guess Ill Have To Love Him Some More replaced by high energy sounds like those in the Buddy Holly hit Not Fade Away and the Elvis Presley standard Heartbreak Hotel Tanya Tucker adapts to rock music well and from her cur rent album one gets the imprcsa sion that she will stay with the format But perhaps to appease her following she has thrown in dash of countrwaexas incn Dietand some middleotlthe road tunesThe River and the Wind Im the Singer Youre the Songwproviding good bal ancetothe album Whether Tucker purists acA oept the latest offering remains to be seen But for listeners in general TNT is no bomb Neil Youngs cover version of the ballad Four Stmng Winds is not the only bright spot on his new album but it certainly must rate as one of the feature attractions Four Strong Winds has been done by scores of artists since an Tyson penned it about 15 years ago but as Young shows on the album Comes Time the song can never be done too many times Its one of those rare tunes that is almost impos sible to record badly Torontoborn Young handles it with the reverence due great Canadian folksoiig performing against beautiful backup vocals accoustic guitars and sad sweet fiddlc accompan imcnt Surely Tyson will forgive Young for rearranging the lyric order dropping the standard opening chorus to begin with the words Think Ill go out to Alberta The reworking tilk nothing from the ballad itself anti es tablishcs from thc start the na tjonality of the tune for the heir efil of Youngs worldwide fol lowing Young has always bccn adcpt at varying his style to appeal to most musical tastes bridging softrock with country or folk in Comes Time he forgets no one The album is largcly made up of soft ballads Needless to say Autrys mail finally became so voluminous that he had to give up answer ing each letter himself But he said during the in terview still answer lot of it If letter needs answering answer it myself MODERN WESTERNS Of modem Westerns starring the likes of Charles Bromon and Clint Eastwood Autry judged Evidently somebody likes them but we couldnt have gotten away with some of the stuff they do Some of their scenes are quite brutal Though Autry sometimes had double jump off cliff for trim leap from one galloping horse to another he did his own fight scenes and remembers one with Hugh Brian then kid jost out of the Marines as one of the longest His horse was always callul Champion but three horses played the role The original died in 1944 while Autry was in the Air Force He rode another in postwar features and third in It halfhour episodes for CBS Autry composed and record ed Here Comes Santa Claus which has become Christmas classic but it only sold five million he said while another song he recorded Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer sold It million and was his biggest hit Autry last sang professional 1y four or five years ago but said he doesnt have time for performing now what with his ownership of six radio stations two television stations hotel ranch and baseball club However he has taken time recently to work on documch tary The Singing oulmys narrated by John Rittcr and featuring Autry Roy Rogers Hex Allen Sr limmy Wakely and film of the late late lcx Hitter dont know what well do with ithe said It may be for telewsion or it may be theatrical release Disco queen takes fall Disco recording star Grace Jones hospitalized with knee injury holds stuffed tiger and mugs for the camera Ms Jones injured the knee when she fell from scaffold during show last week in Fort Lauderdale Fla AP Photo Aritha varifiijerkfsfirstnovel winner Meredith sees winn er in Joe Levines Magic By BILL HAGEN Copley News Service HOLLYWOOD Theres rumor Alec Guinness lost his hair from shaving his head for River Kwai Burgess Meredith said bland tidbit as Hollywood gossip goes but Merediths in terest in the subject went beyond rumormongering He too had had his head shaved for the role of theatrical super agent Ben Greene in Magic Joe Levine the producer said to me About that hair Meredith said said yes understood that there was chance that it wouldnt grow back And that would make helluva lawsuit Joe said Well you dont have to worry about it Neither do We took out $5 million in surance policy on it Of course it was nice little publicity gimmick for the movie but it was also reassur ing Meredith wisp of man had arrived from his Malibu home for round of interviews promoting Magic superb chiller in which he delivers his bes performance in some time Since The Day of the Locusts perhaps His hair could not be describ ed as luxuriant yet but it was returning Slowly but it was returning Magic was not the easiest movie Meredith has worked on his his 49ryear career In addi tion to the head shaving for in stance there was an eerie lake scene scene in which his previously battered body is to be disposed of by Anthony ilopkins in the middle of the lake Hopkins his arm under Merediths chin would swim out and let the weighteddown body sink The setting Meredith said was just as gloomy and cold as it looks on screen Did Richard tdirector Writers windfall buys Porsche TIAWA Iti It was during Aritha an llcrks stint as busii cook in the Yukon that she finished her rioch about young woman who leaves city lifc for pig farm It was as masters student in English at tlic University of Alberta that the 24yearold stuffed trust fund with Sfiouio she had won in Mctlclland and Stewart and Seal Hooks firstnovcl award contest its so neat whcn you finally get to scc the book Ms van ilcrk said in recent intcrvicw glancing proudly at the copy bcsidc her When got riiy first copy lwas wandering around ith it pulled tight to my chist showing cvcryonc incl she laughs inc of my friends told inc ld probably havc to have it surgically nrnovtxl Pianist mastered his craft playing coffeehouse circuit By RUBIN WELLES Copley Syndicate HOLLYWOOD wr When he was in the seventh grade teacher told Les McCann If you want to be someonc youll have to get out of Lex ington Which was not exactly great advertisement for Lex ington or Kentucky either for thatmatter That stuck with me recall ed the jazz pairiist When was 17 had my mother sign papers so could join the Navy The service being what it is regarding proper assignment of personnel McCann washed out of the Navy School of Music and was handed the job of firefighter McCann later enrolled in college in Los Angeles and hon ed his art by playing the cof feehouse circuit was listening to all he guys and Id go to hear everybody at least twice said AK CHINESE FOOD WANT QUICK SERVICE Try our hot fast delivery Free on orders over $900 in Barrie Free delivery limits I0°o Discount on PickUp Orders over 5900 Phone 728881 405 BAYFIELD ST BARRIE McCann They all seemed to knock me out listening to everybody learning about life Now recording for and this latest album is McCann The Man McCann has drifted for years around tiic fr Inn Hwys 400 90 under $200 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just tllll animals that roll around in Ilic rriud shc says Ms van llcrk says shc didnt cvcn likc iiidilli as ciiiuactcr whcn shc started the novel from short story SlltWltiltltilll ycarsiigo turiii thinking icclings rind IMPERIAL rumors 700900 WOODY ALLEN MOST MAJESTIC WORK T0 DATEI Penelope Gillart New Yolke Magalrne jACK ROUJNSCHARLES JOFTF PROP INTERIORS STARTS TOMORROW Recommended Al Adult Entertainment KRISTIN iiil itltllll MARYBEIH ll Illl itl1l lAitl JORDAN DIANE KltlAlON MARSHALL GERALDINE PAGE MAUREEN SIAILEIY SAM WAlEllSlUN Director of Photography GORDON VVllLlS Lost Time Todd booth on the tile 800 pm Only IMPERIAL Executive Produrer ROBERT GREENHUT Produced by CHARLES jOFFE United Artists hit 900 Shes very well prickly person hard to gct along with and shes always ovcr reacting liut as the Iudiths unravellth novel and personality You can orin control character to certain dcgicc you cant have them behave inconsist cntly Is van llcrk ad nuts shc cairnc to fch it gmdging admiration and sympathy torJuditli She insistsJudith is not an autobiographical character lllilll Kil could ncvcr live on form like liidith docs lhc cluirrictcrs all canic otit of my iiiiaginritiori lni coin pictcly lllllllllfll anti lll ncvcr go back But what about that stint as bush cook Ms van ilcrks husbaer of tour years Zttrycarold Bob Sharp is geologist in one of his jauan to the Yukon he and his two mmpanions needed cook So went along she says It was great for me They left in the rrior ni rig and didnt come back until dinner time had all day to writ Right now shes working on series of interrelated short stories but thats all shcll say Being superstitious writer dont like to talk about anything Im doing until its gone to the publisher Future plans Quite simply she plans to on tc and drive around wi tii husband lob in the car she gave him in her only moment of indulgence since her windfall $13000 Porsche cr ca iiicolored 700 9zl0 Armour MirH 77 at rm Catch it PARAM NT PICTURES PRESENTS IOHN TRAVOLTA KAREN LYNN GORNEV Im portal Backstage CINEMA msnirs Iocoormondod AI Molt Entortohniont Richard Attenborough tell you how many times we did that scene Meredith said Over and over and over It was shot in Mendocino County Calif and all that kept us going were the marvelous vineyards around there And after each take all Richard could say was Sorry old boy Whatever Attenborough sub jected Meredith to only added to Merediths respect for the director He made Meredith work which other directors have recently been reluctant to do They apparently are in awe of Merediths reputation as an actor tend to wander away from work Meredith said have million extracurricular things going but always come back And keep getting rediscovered by audiences and critics so there is fringe benefit But dont always tend to business And dont always choose wisely know that Theres lot of stuff The Manitou and Ihe Sentinel for instance that shouldnt have done and regret it did it for buck even when really didnt need it Richard made me tend to business and Im grateful for that Another Production in Soooon to Honour Borrloo 125th Annlvorury at the Embassy Hall Blake St WED THUR FRI NOV 2930 DEC 800 pm admiumn $550 Haifa Hiltllllé aliens COLOR by Detox MW lileiTIFSH JOFFE bananas United Artists IUCKSTONE COUNTY PRISON 11mm Members A+ the Door Epitome Artists 23 2252 DOUBLE FEATURE YOU HAVENT SEEN ANYTHING UNTIL YOUVE SEEN EVERYTHING gtl inn THATS CARRY ON IWIINDLS Aflll IIIIIAIIUIII