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Rocker Writes book He studied at Connecticuts exclusive prep school Hot chkiss and then Columbia iUniversity Hes written and produced an awardwinning iplay appeared in numerous films and has just completed his first solo album He is also Deleon on records Gino What happened By PAUL DELEAN Examiner Staff Writer Three years ago Gino Vannelli was the brightest youny starin Canadian music His dynamic hit single People Gotta Move was followed by superb album called Powerful Pe0ple There seemed to be no stopping this Montrealborn lt phenom He had it all striking good looks rich voice and senSitive delivery an original sound an inspired col laborator in brother Joe an understanding patron in Herb per It takes recklessly independent performer to go wrong amid such favorable circumstances ut Vannelli appears to industry This modern Renaissance man is Harlembred Denny Greene the only black member of the neo50s rockn roll group Sha Na Na Says Greene about his book Fighting for Piece of Babylon Its serious book proposing the theory that our cultural definition makers are members of closed blue collar club Greene and coauthor Jenne Carter will focus on the role of blacks and women in the recor ding industry using song lyrics photos and interviews with such people as Patti Smith and Al Green Greene is the first member of Sha Na Na which now has its own syndicated TV series to embark on solo recording career In the album Denny Greene he veers from the usual rowdy style of Sha Na Na to his own quieter more roman tic one His acting resume includes have done iust that The new album Pauper in Paradise and SP4664 is his third smce Powerful People In my estimation it is ponderous and overblown muc like its predecessors Gist Of The Gemini and Storm at Sunup What made Powerful People such delight was the warmth the sincerity the humanity of the material beautifully complemented by the sensitive vocals of Van nelli and musical nuances of his band Songs like Lady Son Of New York Gun Felicia Poor Happy Jimmy and People Gotta Move made it an album of engaging vitality Not so his subsequent works Vannelli has been getting progressively more elaborate more ambitious more ex perimental And more pretentious Nowadays he sings composes produces and arranges his music as if he was constructing yandiose monument and the resulting material has all the warmth of slab of con crete 0n Pauper in Paradise Vannelli hits new peak for pomp Side two is taken up almost entirely by 15minute suite tin four movements no less where Vannelli and his synthesizerdominated band join forces with Londons Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the John McCarthy Choir He might have used the Alaska Philharmonic and the Ed Smitli Choir for all the difference makes in the interest level of that rather tedious aimless piece There are five songs on side one Only two of them ballad Surest Things Can Change and rocker One Night With You recall the vibrant vintage Vannelli of three years ago They dont account for many minutes on Pauper In Paradise but at least they offer some grounds for hope that this singer of proven talent will drop the delusions of grandeur and rediscover his basic strengths Gino Vannelli something wrong Harlem Up The Down Stair case and the recent Greased Lightning Hell soon be doing guest shot in the upcoming Grease which stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton John In between Sucker but Cosby may have come up with the ultimate disco zinger in what ya think about lickin my chicken He pays the price though two songs later when hes trap ped on the dance floor with sevenfoot amazon who is determined to boogie on my face Not all the material on Disco Bill is so zanily effective but ide one in particular should loosen up any party JERRY BUTLER all these BILL COSBY Motown stalwart Jerry Butler just seems to get smoother Singer Barry White doesnt realize it but hes funny slicker and suaver every year and romp With his fellow rock man Hes been busy with solo album and paired effort With ii rollers Bill Cosby realizes it Hes even modelled his singing style the White Croak and the results are often hilarious on Disco Bill lCapitol ST11683 his new album Cosby the bestselling comedy recording artist of all time is probably the most unpredictable funnyman around You know how hes going to say things but never what The medium of disco music hotbed of banality to start with is convenient outlet for Cosbys creative juices The album gets off to rousing start with Simple Love Affair where Cosbv laments fallingout with his lover Sometimes think you dont know nothing bout love he coos in his best Barry White monotone to the woman who tW€ gradually learn has thrown tableon his face while he was sleeping Disco followers have had some strange instructions blared to them in recent years Fly Robin Fly Shake Your Bootie Get Down Tonight Get Up and Boogie Tear The Roof off the Thelma Houston to his credit already this year and now second solo work It All Comes ut In My Song Motown 892PI The new release is by no means momentous but thats hardly surprising Butler has never been one for flashiness Hes simple selfeffacing performer whose strength is crooning There are nine songs on It All Comes Out In My Song The performance is in typical Butler fashion relaxed and relax Es ing the spirit distinctly middleoftheroad Just You and Me Forever lm Music and How It Used To Feel are among the effective vehicles for his laidrback delivery Some of the material seems trifle weak recurring pro blem with Butler but his interesting style usually com pensates Snioothness not significance makes this gentle album seductive Carrie signs to play movie Princess Leia in Star Wars lniveisals upcoming comedy Want To Hold Your Hand The movie concerns with six New Jersey youths in Sullivan Show Ms Fisher who in real life is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddic Fisher is cast as teenage social actiwst who protests the commer novclt ics Last stab at super success for Troiano and new band TORONTO iCPi After The formation of The Do working on book on the record such films as Cotton Comes to Carrie Fisher last seen as has signed for starring role in itself the 1960s and happenings sur rounding the Beatles first visit to the to appear on the Ed cialisni of ltcntli records and selfimposed exile from the clubconcert circui Domenic Troiano and new band chose Toronto to begin what some have called his last stab at super success He cer tainly has had more than the average number of chances and maybe just maybe hell make it thistime child of the 605 that in fant era of the Canadian rock music industry Troiano has moved in and out of various bands so often his biogsheet reads like chronology of the industry itself From his initiation with Ronnie Hawkins to sojourns with Mandalla Bush James Gang and The Guess Who in terspersed with his own periodic solo ventures Troiano has garnered the ex perience and hard knocks that show in the music that has evolved into his own characteristic style menic Troiano Band is culmination of the inevitable his chance to take on what he could not do within the ranks of someone elses organization Troiano says he never wanted to be just guitar player want to create musicto influence it Having my own band is something Ive looked for ward to for longtime Its musical situation where can touch all the bases and move in any direction want BAND IS MOSAIC The band is mosaic of members from many levels of the industry in loose for mat Troiano does not pretend will be permanent Their recent album Burning at the Stake included Shawne Jackson the Brecker Brothers and Steve Ferrone innrm CINEMAS Wh Starring Bobby Doorflold mom Gnome Frldo Slowthno 655 905 Dave Tyson and Fred Mair del former Average White Band members Yet in con cert the arrangement changes at whim In the Toronto appearance Yazcc Sabowta and Gene Melan draros were added while others sat out the night Of this flexdiility in the ranks Troiano says perhaps thru months from now it may be that one of them wants to leave and do something else or in years time may have 20 horns or whatever but it still will be The Domenic Troiano Band The band members previous experiences make their music rife with ghosts of bands st At the Toronto nighthU where Troiano presented his new format it was possible to see the for mative influences But their music has glossy sophis tication that can only be thc DOWNTOWN BARBIE All ANYTIME 1285 IIIII oesnt anyone tell you there difference between making love and being in love Do you remember PARAMOUNT PICTURES PRESENTS COMPANY PRODUCTION FIRST LOVE WILLIAM KATT Screenplay by JANE STANTON HITCHCOCK and DAVID FREEMAN Produced by LAWRENCE TURMAN and DAVID FOSTER Directed by JOAN DARLING SUSAN DEY m7 Pumnt PlainsCorporation Witon product of long and varied experience Will this new gloss be too much for Canadian nightclub audiences wellnoted for their fickle tastes Troiano doesnt seem worried He says Were not bar band were concert hand But he acknowledges that clubs are the best thing for you when youre starting out they give you time to tighten up llll lll WAS Iltilll lturiiing at the Stakc was featured in the debut ap pcaraiicc and the band did not seem to need the tightening up of the club at niosplicrc They were well rehearsed cach knew Where the ot litrs were going and the music lid lllt audience through relaxing Friday evening Live it is not more back ground music Mother dies Tony Bennett in the tradi tion of the show must go on completed weekend singing date in San Francisco and then left Monday to attend his mothers funeral in ltivcr Edge worm vouvourcnoicr minimum TONITE ONLY Dunnotlon Aloy 705 900 at lid Not the crowds who cheered him Not the women who made love to him Not thcfamily who reached out to him is No one really knew No one until now No one until her locommondod AI Mutt Entertainment Illllllllil llttllllfiilllll IllIIHI llrw pitwrit AL PACINO MAR KELL LAST StImIIlp 710 The Adventures of the Childrens Matinee Sat Only AI Soot 25 Based on true WILDERNESS FAMILY story of modern Ineor rMdeé turned theirbacks on civilization simROBERlFtOGAN SUAN DAMNTE HAWH never to return AM IARSI ac complishments Greene willi continue to grease back his hair mlSIake Although My 23 Three hits Don King signed recording contract aftci walking into record company office by hes had three country music hits this year AP Laser photo Cull DARLENE For All Your Travel Information The Best Service In Town BRISTOW Travel Service photo of trout OPEN SATURDAY NOW IOCAIIONS 29 Owen St 7370340 74 Dunlop St 737Ibll Levi Bell Bottom Reg 2095 ltids Jeans levi Bells Sizes to 18 ciiAnorzxi the examiner Thursday Dec 191713 Streisand Minnelli and now Schneider HOLLYWOOD NEA The last time the people at RCA called me and said they had an unknown singer they wanted me to interview said sorry but was too busy So never did interview Elvis Presley This time they said they thought they had an unknown singer who was going to be the next big female star So said yes because learn fast Her name is Helen Schneider and they talk of her as the com ing Streisand or Minnelli She has her first album So Close out on RCAs Windsong label Schneider is as you can im agine terribly exCited even if she isnt exactly newcomer to performing Helen Schneider is 24 and she has been singing rock for near ly 10 years now But she says that gradually her style has changed to something that cant really be called rock 0r anything else exactly She doesnt write her songs never had that inclination but she picks them all And it is all new material She doesnt sing standards She says that maybe tomorrow shell find standard she wants to sing What Helen Schneider wants are songs with relevance that doesnt mean they have to contain message have no cause It just means she has to be able to relate to her music on HOT ROXX TAl Presents Saturday Doc 10 Angus Lions Hall 54 In advance $5 at the door Tickets available at Sams New Horilons RPM 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