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Barrie Examiner, 16 Feb 1979, p. 24

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on tho oxnmlnor Eulay no 10 1a Instantly likeable love songs highlight new Murray album By MICHAEL LAWSON The Canadian Press On her latest album Anne Murray does not really diverge from her usual style of music interpretation One can only assume therefore that the albums title New Kind of Feeling is reflection of the singers newfound status on the in temational market Its not the first time Canadas foremost pop songstress had blazed international trails Prior to last year she had scored outside Canada with the hit tunes Snowbird and Dannys Song But those songs hap pened five to 10 years ago almost ancient history in the world of show business It was with her 1978 release Lets Keep It That Way and the accompanying singles Walk Right Back and You Needed Me that Anne started percolating as never before Henew album continues that momentum Several weeks before New Kind of Feeling hit the market its first single started making waves over the air In fact that single just Fell In Love Again may singlehandedly guarantee the albums success When the song first made the charts of the American trade publication Billboard it was positioned almost halfway up the Top 100 listin 57th spot Two weeks later it had reached the 305 with no sign of slowing down Just Fell In Love Again is only one of several potentials for singles action The album is collection of easylistening tunes basically middleoftheroad but reade acceptable to the formats of both pop and country radio programming For those fans who insist that Anne Murray is country and western act several tracks like Rainin In My Heart and He Cant Help It if Hes Not You hold extra appeal in their smooth steel guitar accom paniment Much of the album is made up of instantly likeable love ballads the type of song best suited to Annes characteristically easy style such as Adam Mitchells Yucatan Cafe and the Robert Batteau composition Take This Heart tune colored with pseudogospel vocal backing One cut especially worthy of mention is Heaven ls Here vocal duet with brother Bruce Murray The song may have been included as subtle promotion for Bruces awn album to be released soon by CBS All plugs aside Heaven Is Here can be readily appreciated The song is rich both in melody and its fine execution NEW KIND OF FEELING Murray Capitol SWI HMS If the music industry were to hand out an award for most lopsided album of the year Eddie Moneys latest Life For the Taking undoubtedly would be prime contender Anne What hurts the album most is its lack of balance The listener must endure 20 minutes of unimaginative heavy rock on Side One before reaching the more tempered more interesting work of the second side Theres no question that Money is capable of delivering good product but why does he gamble on his audiences degree of patience More to the point why did producer Bruce Botnick not shuffle the deck before dealing Moneys weak attempt at hard rock glimmering only occasionally with the searing attack of Jimmy Lyons guitar would have been far more bearable had it been sandwiched between the lighter songs onSideTwo Another blow On his impressive debut album Money shared the sax work with Tom Scott talented performer regarded by some as the best woodwind artist in contemporary music Life For the Taking the horn work is left totally up to Scott OK so far but whereas Scott is credited with coarranging the horn parts with Money the arrangements themselves allow little opportunity for the reed mans talents to shine Positive tracks on the album include Maybe Im Fool and Maureen both good beat tunes and the soulful Call On Me with fine blues guitar in the Roy Buchanan vein LIFE FOR THE TAKING Money Columbia 3559a Eddie Kate Bush is one of those artists who find favor in both Britain and Canada but in explicably cannot break ground in the ever important US market Its Americas loss At age 20 the British singer has two albums to her credit both of which display her power as musician and composer Her latest Lionheart is in fact progression of her debut The Kick Inside Theres something readily appealing about an artist of Kates calibre The soprano vocals suggest innocence yet the imageryzehind the compositions is deep and knowing In one breath she Sings about God the head of the Good Soul Department but the next brings to the fore her feelings of jeal ousy and gives way to her deep thesis on the purpose of life While she easily swings into song of childlike Innocence like her tune In Search of Peter Pan that innocence soon fades to feeling of universal depression Kate Bush was born bit too late to rank among the giants of contemporary poetry but shes still working at it After all some markets have yet to discover her LIONIIEART Kate Bush apitol 6454 Polish films winning acclaim WARSAW AP daring frankness is winning new ac claim tor the Polish cinema al ready the most avantgarde film industry in the Soviet bloc Movies dealing with divorce alcoholism crime and political unrest in the ommunist society are becoming staples of the stateowned industry which produces about 30 featurelength films year Nudity is so commonplace in Polish film that sometimes quarter of the mono is snipped out by censors In versions shown in the Soth tInIon sources in Warsaw report Some Western critics say thr cyeopcnmg realism heralds the Polish cmcmas second wave after spate in recent years of historical costume dramas and Second World War resistanceepics Polanski Frenchman of Polish descent is graduate of the Polish film academy In Lodz as are all the leaders of the latest trend toward provocative realism Andrej Wajda perhaps the countrys most renowned direc tor caused sensation at home and abroad with two recent films dealing with abuscs of powcr and soctal problems In Poland LIFE RllNlIl The Man of Marble Is shocking account of Polish bricklayer who becomes workerhero only to have lllt mined in thc ommunist party purges of the 19505 After playr mg to capacity crowds in War saw the film was exported to Western Europe and won the critics pIlZC at the 1978 annes Film Festival Wajdas latest film Without Anaesthetic tells of it Polish television commentator who is overwhelmed by personal and professional disaster want to make films that best selling albums Spirits Having Flown Bee Gees last week Blondos Have More Fun Rod Stewart Life For the Taking Eddie Money Night Flight to Venus Boney Briefcase Full of Blues Blues Brothers Armed Forces Elvis Costello Cost Chic Chic 52nd Street Billy Joel Whispering Rain Murray McLauchlan i0 Jazz Queen i0 show the reality of life in Po land films about truth about necessity rather than il lusions Wajda explained at news conference in Warsaw Wajdas latcst films have yet to be shown in North America but Polish names are widely shown III cinemas arid on TV In Western Europe and some have reached Europe The Poles who are big nnpor tcrs of films from the West are eager to export their films to corn hard currency Global TV plans new history show TORONTO JPI docu mentarydrama similar to the former series Witncss to Yes tcrday Is among several pror grants being planned for Global IVs fall schedule Adventures Beyond Time is slated as hallhour weekly show that Wlll feature host Barry Morse intcrvrewing character from history played by an actor Bill Stewart llobals vice prcsident of programming also said Monday that the Ontario network hopes to coproducc with Columbia sixpart series called Lyrics and Lyricists The show will have an Ameri can executive produccr but will use mostly contemporary Canadian talent which so far has not been named Stewart said couple of musical series still are in the planningstages The network also intends to carry Bruno Gerussis Celebrity Cooks now being shown on the CBC 4nonday EVENING 600 NEWS HOLvaooo scones CAROL BURNETT Ano FRIENDS POLKA DOT 00011 630 nac news FANTASY ISLAND cos news ABC nEws nEws PARTY GAME JEREMY 645 READALONG 655 WRITE ONI 700 DATING GAME CROSS WITS MARY TVLER MOORE SHOW TIC TAC DOUGH FLATBUSH group of young mon from Brooklyn known In tho Fungon diocovor that Ill beloved vohiclo hon fallen Victim to gang of car throvon Stars Jouph Cali tan chd Promor nEvawED GAME oonT ASK ME 3000 TIMES PRICE Is RIGHT 730 8100000 NAME THAT TUNE NEWLYWED GAME GENE TAYLOR snow HOLvaooo soumes COED FEVER SHA NA NA Gucci Dick Clark MAGIC SHADOWS BOB NEWHART SHOW 800 LITTLE HOUSE on THE PRAIRIE Whon the town bigot to out to gut revenge on Jonathan Garvey ho noon and tumult on III for burning Garvoyo barn and nouuhlng young Andy Garvey 60 THE wHiTE snAoow FLATBUSH prone at young men from Brooklyn known In tho Fungoo dIlCOVOI that their bolovod vehicle hu lotion Victim to gang of cor thlovoo Stare Joooph Cali inn odPromioro ROOT THE NEXT GENERATIONS In 1892 the political prouuro on black people in incrouing outrageous lltoracy tontn deny Tom Harvey tho right to vote for the first time since the Emancipation and lynch law in nppuring 1001 BARETTA 1030 MAN ALIVE Lite Trivial Or Sacrodi This program examines the confu sion ourrounding the questions of when If ever in abortion ouicido capital punishment or outhnnnin justified WmrlEilVOll 543 Is LOVE 1100 icnl 89 NEWS STREETS OF SAN cac news FRANCISCO CTv NEWS MOVIE coneovi Tho Heartbreak Kld 1012 830 COED FEVER 900 nonmv NIGHT AT THE MOVIES Bnckniniru At The White Houu ro Lullo gomo Harry Morgan MAsll Lt Col Cliff Lucy dnohlng good look momonlnrily impru Hot Lipl but tho colonolo unulullly high battalion HI Wslteaiit MOVIE PRESENTA TION Marathon Man 1970 Stars DuItIn Hoffman Laurence Olivier An mtroopoctivo graduate student finds himoff ol the mercy of VOVACE or CHAnLEs 33321011 330 THE CO wrote In CInCInnATI Andy Travrn warns Mr Cartoon that union ho rnuuo staff ulariu to living wage ho might lose some personnel and euro enough Dr nn Fever in offered ob In California ONE DAY AT IME by dolivorymnn luv Ann with grand EMPLOYMENT FILE MOVIE DRAMA XY and Zoo 1912 1115 THE REAL sronv 120 news 1125 auesnon PERIOD 1127 news 130 THE ToniCHT snow Guest Goor Como 90 mans CB LATE MOVIE THE ROCK FORD FILES The Girl In Tho Bay City Boy Club Rockford infiltrate charity Club for myotoriouu ClIOflI TOUCH OF CLASS t973 Stun Glenda Jackon George iuMOVIE HORROR ma and of Roll Houoo 197a TREET TALK 1145 CAnAoA GAMES REPORT Ethic Afogonlo rovlovu highlightl of the days mm 150 MOVIE piano and It owner lodged In hor livtng mnmfiaaAuA no 100 1000 NEWSMAGAZINE Lou GRANT mother obaouod with tracking the nitnodrun driver who killed her son nrouua Rouio fighting Inntinctl and load to human mtornt Itory with an npoctod oil 60 WWII BA Apollo uncovor blackmail operation and no hit own lit in danger ho rlcoo ugolriot tune to clear Starbuck who hn boon nocuood urdoring follow pilot 60 rhino SPEAKING OUT NEWS UPDATE NEWS Room To Run 1200 PETER WIMSEV IOICAL CENTER ADVENTURE rm nor 1210 ESTAR GALAch IOVIE wesrsnni ROM 1012 100 TWOW mucus WELBY ID PTL CLUBTALK AND VARIETY Series about ordinary blacks gets the goahead from NBC By NOLAN DAVIS opley News Service HOLLYWOOD Mix ma jor studio producer with an in novative television executive and what have you got Answer if the setting is Le Serre restaurant in Studio City the repast is fish with pine nuts and Pouilly Fuisse wine the conferets are Stanley Robert son of MAUniversal and Peter Anthony Andrews of NBC and the topic is How We Made It To the Top then Youve got Harris and C0 Americas first hourlong primetime dramatic television series about handsom blue collar father of African descent who is widowed in Detroit and moves his five children to California where he raises them on traditional virtues while struggling to support them by driving towtruck co owned with an AngloSaxon partner around the San Fernan do Valley Former Los Angeles Rams San Francisco 49ers split end poet and artist Bernie asey stars as Mike Ilarris the widowed father trying to raise his kids Liz l9 portrayed by Renee Brown the oldest and most conservative of the family who works parttime as waitress and attends college too David l7 David Hubbard from James at 13 whos pcssnnistic talented sax ophonist in high school and ex periencing growth pains lP III Lia Jackson math whiz and bookkeeper of the family Tommy Eddie Singleton an athletic freak whose favorite sport is baseball and Richard Allen Dain Turner whos lovable if at times annoying with his neverending questions about any and everything BEST FRIENDS Rooting for the Harrises are Mikes best friends and tow truck partners Louise and Harry Foreman Louise Walden and James Luis who own service station in the Valley Occasionally Louise becomes surrogate mother for the Harris children Comic relief is given by Mikes day dreaming cousin Charlie Adams comedian Stu Gilliam and Charlies more sensible wife Angie Carol Tillery Banks The Harrises Louise and Harry and Angie and Charlie all live in the bluecollar sec tion of the Valley Thats because concept originators Robertson and An drews come from struggling bluecollar families with tradi tional American virtues though they now labor most lucratively and lunch somewhat luxuriously in the San Fernando Valley which hardly makes them different from the other Nielsen watching types What makes Robertson and Andrews different is that theyre black What makes Harris and Co noteworthy is that its an ordinary series about ordinary black folks with ordinary pro blems with ordinary solutions aimed at ordinary viewers TOP RATINGS After the Harris and Co pilot Love is Not Enough captured top ratings in June of 1978 network officials sat on it until November before giving Robertson the goahead to pro duce four episodes which still havent been scheduled though NBC says the show will air sometime this spring in the it pm primetime slot At one point the situation was so tense over the networks pro crastination that Detroit Free Press columnist hris Stochr lambasted NBC for allegedly taking the Harris and Co concept and ordering another one just like it developed but white version And Robertson was quoted as saying But now see this show with the little kid who HEARING TEST EVERY YEAR IS SOUND IDEA My HEARING AID SERVICE The Downtown Contra Ho W51 Ivh Hon 7371 Mon to Fri 10in 530pm Sat Evenings by appointment talks smart Different Strokes and what does that show portray The rich white man adopts two little black kids Its the old stereotype of the absentee father and the benevolent white man taking over the real fathers place But thats the kind of show that gets full commitment from NBC while Harris and Co which is different way of presenting blacks just keeps getting shuffled further and further back That was before the network gave its approval for the four episodes All is hearts and Nielsens once again And Robertson and Andrews are casting corporate Valentines at everyone in sight HARPERS PHARMACY LTD SPECIAlISIS IN Ostomy Supplies and Accessories Breast Prosthesis and Mastectomy Bras Orthopedic Supports Surgical Elastic Stockings Private Fitting Rooms Professionally Trained Personnel Mail Order Service CONVALESCENT AIDS Cones Crutchos Walkers Commodes Baths Bathtub Rails 81 Seats Hospital Beds Wheel Choirs Etc Rentals Solos 7285407 128 Pointn9 At 81 View IAIN

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