Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 55

Statesman, Salem, Apr. 16, 72 (Sec B)-3 SSSSS5SBSKS55 Gram Phonei Three Dog Night john T7v GRAM Statesman Staff Writer Heavy Rockers Coming Joyful With World Dam' into rocking versions and Havens makes 'Vigilante Man' a blues ballad. JESSE COLIN YOUNG: Together Raccoon Leaving the Youngbloods behind Jesse Colin Young has recorded an album of good spirit songs. Even the cut titles evoke good thoughts: "Together," "Peace Song," "Good Times," "It 's a Lovely Day" and "Sweet Little Child." Of the original numbers "Together" and "Good Times" are the most outstanding. Even though Jesse has used mostly other people's material including Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen," Woody Guthrie's "Pastures of Plenty" and "Six Days on the Road" he has a way of making them sound like his own.

Jesse plays four instruments and seems to show he can get along without the Youngbloods. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD: Bittersweet Invictus You've heard most of this record before in the past 12 years. or so. Maybe even longer if you're old enough to remember. The words and music are changed around some: variations on worn themes (with all the futility of Roman dramatists trying to improve on Greek tragedies.) If you're into the Bored's brand of popularized music, don't worry: it hasn't changed.

Glen Gibbons, Jr. style. Violins, saxophone, and flutes stand out more than guitars. It is interesting to listen to big beat rock turn to jazz, wander to string-woodwind interlude. Music today is said to be in an interlude waiting for new leaders and ideas.

And as people are turning back to basics, Gun Butter or their kind of music could move into the spotlight as a combination of three known forms. A TRIBUTE TO WOODY GUTHRIE PART ONE Columbia After folk singer Woody Guthrie died of Huntington's disease in 1967 at age 55 musical kinfolk gathered in 1968 and 1970 in charitable tribute. Parts one and two are from concert tapes. As ultimate testimony to Woody rivals, Columbia and Warner Bros, are cooperating by each publishing one part with proceeds going to charity. Artists on Part One doing Guthrie songs are Arlo Guthrie, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Richie Havens, Tom Paxton.

Joan Baez, Country Joe McDonald and Jack Elliott are included in Part Two. Peter Fonda, Will Geer and Robert Ryan handle narration between songs as if they were Woody. The interesting part is special treatment the various artists give Guthrie songs: Dylan backed by The Band makes 'Ain't Got No 'Dear Mrs. and 'Grand Coulee songs do have value because other people are doing them. St that's what we're doing.

"People are infering that our talent isn't valid tecjust we play other people-songs, but if eight peopk have done a record and ym come along and are thi ninth to do it and make a top 5 record, it shows there is some talent there." Some of the writers that Three JobNight recorded, most cases In'fore they were famous, are Elton John. Randy Newman. Nilsson. Laura Nvro. Paul Williams.

All members of the group look for songs suitable fur recording wherever thev go The next album will have a ragga song on it. a Jamai can rhythm, slower than Trinidad, which Hutton heard on the radio. Wells, a life member of the Sierra Club, pushes songs like in the Countrv" and "Family of The group name is an Aus tralian aborigine term for an extremely cold night, a night so cold it takes three dogs in bed with you to keep you warm. Hutton ran across it in a book on aborigines. The group knew what it meant but chose it mostly for the sound of the words.

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys had previously suggested Redwood as the name. Wells says that the original idea was to have three singers and a vocalist. Later came the idea that there should be a band. The same seven members have been together since the group name was chosen in Ifo. Hutton says, "It has gone past the money.

About a year ago we went over the hump of having to worry about money any more. We enjoy what we're doing. We'd be crazy to work so hard otherwise. We put in a lot of hours." Wells says. "We don't have a desire to set records.

Maybe somebody in the office wants us to." Hutton breaks in. "Oh. sure we like to. Every- rock 'n' roll group in the world would like to go down in history in 'Ripley's Believe It or Last summer the group played stadiums in Atlanta, Dallas and Pittsburgh. When that idea was first suggested to them.

Hutton says. "It took our breath away. But this coming summer we're working a whole bunch of them. Where is it going to stop?" Wells answers. "Well, there was a comedian who said pretty soon we'll be playing to whole states and whoever lives there has to pay $2." Another topic which always comes up in connection with Three Dog Night is that the members don't, Their own songs a no-no to some people in 1972.

Hutton and Wells say they're entertainers and arrangers. Wells says, "We get static from the heavies that we don't write our own material so we're not as heavy. Why don't they ask the writers?" Hutton says, "I think whal broke the ice for the Beatles was that other people start ed doing their songs. That's what made it happen foi them. People said, "Their By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeafures Writer Three Dog Night, its record "Joy to the World" nominated for the top Grammy Award, record of the year, performed the song on the televised Grammy presentations this year.

Three Dog Night didn't win, Carole King's "It's Too Late" did, but "Joy to the World" had the distinction of selling more 32 million copies. Asked if their Grammy performance was lip synching along with the record, vocalist Danny Hutton says. "Yes. We wanted to sing it live but there was some fou-lup with the technical end of it. Amplified music is very hard for TV to get properly." Some of the performers on the televised show, like Jerry Reed, sang live against a prerecorded backup track.

All six albums by Three Dog Night on ABC-Dunhill are gold "Suitable for Framing," "Three Dog Night," "It Ain't Easy," "Golden Biscuits," "Naturally" and "Harmony." The group has four gold singles "One," "Mama Told Me Not To Come," "Joy to the World" and "An Old-Fash-ioned Love Song." There have been 13 hit singles, some of them very close to a million. Stories keep pouring into music offices about Three Dog Night breaking attendance figures around the country. Talking with two of the three vocalists, Cory Wells and Danny Hutton, in the seven-man group, we asked if the desire to break records is a major motivation. KVDO Two of the top one-man stage singing acts will be appearing in the Northwest the next two weeks. The histrionics of Chuck Berry and Joe Cocker are a top show themselves.

Berry, called the father of rock and roll, will be at the Salem Armory 8 p.m. Saturday, April 29. Many of the greats of popular music including the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Rolling Stones and Beach Boys got started by copying Chuck Berry sons or style. Appearing also in the EJD-KROW Radio production will be rock group Jr. Cadillac who specializes playing music popular in the 50s and early 60s.

Cocker is doing an encore tour U.S. from his famous Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour from which the movie and album were made. The Cocker concert will be in Portland Coliseum 8 p.m. Friday sponsored by Northwest Releasing. Banana Stand will appear at a free Willamette University Associated Students dance in the Quad 8:30 p.m.

Friday. The group, all from Salem, specializes in basic rock and blues. The dance will be moved to the gym if raining. Associated Students will sponsor a Portland soul group, Everything Is Everything, Friday, April 28 in the quad. The dance will be in the University Center if raining.

Deep Purple have canceled their American tour and Salem Armory concert Friday. The Northwest premier of the Concert for Bengladesh movie will be 8 p.m. Tuesday at Paramount Theater in Portland. Sponsored by KPAM-FM the premier is by invitation only. The movie, starring Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar and Ringo Starr, opens to the public Wednesday.

Just as the New York concert and the album from it all proceeds after expenses go to Bengladesh UNI-CEF fund. The film is G-rated. GUNS BUTTER: Guns Butter Cottillion Named after what a recent U.S. President promised us, the group is made up of six young men from Boston. As LBJ contended, a combination, Guns Butter sees their music as "high-energy blend of rock and jazz and classical music." Using known musical forms of rock, jazz and classical recycled without psychedelic techniques they fused their talent into a new Tnl yjj i WHAT'S COOKING walrh "FOOD IS JOY ITH CHKF LKKOY Mori, Iriru Fri.

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