“ ln DelMar, CaIifornia, I had my first bra-thrown-on-stage ・ lt Just went flying by me. I didn't know what it was! When you get on the stage and hear all the screammg, you don't think about being a sex symbol. You think about how nice it is that so many people go wild. stays completely out 0f the public eye. His method of breaking into the Nashville country scene as well. After servmg ume in New Jersey nightclubs, Rabbitt packed his bags and headed for. . . New York! He recorded his "New York country songs' ' there. "When I was up in New York, 20th Century Fox was gomg into the country business. And I had one record there that didn't do anything. I was one of the few country wrlters up there.... the record was like a songwriter's demo [demonstra- tion tape] made into plastic, ' ' he laughs. "This was in the mid -1960 ' s. Then there was another one-shot deal on a la 1 called Date. NO contract to do singles-and-an- album or anything like that. Just a song ・ 。 I put ou t another thing called 。 The Bed. ' ' ' (This tune was later recorded by Tom Jones on his 〃どなゲ album). 'l'rn not afraid to mention these records, ' ' Eddie offers, "but I don't con- sider them legltimate recording deals. ' He sums hiS unusual career as 、・ e 、 York City country act by saying, "You know, Nashville is 6 million miles away from New York. The Partnership However unusual, it ) な「 a begmmng; so when Rabbitt hit Music City he did have some expenence under his belt. .. er some success a country 、 rriter , he formed a partnership with two other "left-field heroes, ' ' Even Stevens and David Malloy. The former was a little songwnter from Ohio; and the latter was an apprentice recording studiO engmeer barely out 0f his teens. Together, the three created the unique Eddie Rabbitt sound. They have created records that sound like no others in coun- try music, and certainly like no Others produced by the usual Nashville assembly-line method. Even early Rabbitt hits 1 e "Rocky Mountain Music,' "Two DoIlars in the Jukebox, ' ' and "Drinkin' My Baby Offa My Mind' ' had rhythm and drive combined with the airy Rabbitt harmonies that made them distinctive. With such smashes as "Hearts on Fire, ' ' "You Don't Love Me Anymore, "I Can't Help Myself," ' Pour Me Another Tequila, ' ' “Ⅵ Can't GO On Just Want TO Living Like This, ' Love You, ” and "Gone Too Far, ' ' the rene gade trio catapulted Eddie t0 country stardom. Then "Suspicrons, ' Every Which Way But Loose , ' ' " Drivin ' My Life Away, ' and "I Love a Rainy 36 COUNTRYRHYTHMS Night' ' brought their unique country sound t0 the pop muSIC world as well. Rabbitt believes this was possible because Of an unusual clause in hiS recording con- tract : “ NO record company executive has picked out our singles. That decision never leaves our hands. lt'S in our con- tract: Nobody else will pick out the singles. ' ' The three were SO sure that what they were dOing was "right' ' that even as beglnners they insisted on control. Now that he is a superstar, Eddie Rab- bitt has continued to break the molds: To put it simply , he does not act the least bit like a man who has the world by the tail. ln conversation, he repeatedly praises his partners and draws attentlon away 伝 0n1 himself toward them. "I don't think any of this would have happened for me if it hadn ' t of been for the mag1C of this creative friendship , he says. Even Stevens adds that Eddie displays no star's temperament when they're working together: "We've never had a major fight. Any ofus. ' Let's face it. Eddie Rabbitt is a national sex symbol ; and you ' d think that , alone , would give him at least a ん bit of a swelled head. But here, again, he's not a typical star. On stage he has none of the vulgarity or swagger ofan Elvis or a Tom Jones, much less the excess Of rock stars like Mick Jagger or Rod Stewart. He j u st looks happy. If he's a sex symbol, it's not because of any bumps and grinds, it's because of the twinkle in his eyes and his lrish charm. "I read and hear about me being a sex symbol just like you do, ' ' he "I never thought l'd have to comments. worry about that. ln DelMar, California, I had my first bra-thrown-on-stage. ltjust went flying by me. I didn't know what it was! When you get out on the stage and hear that screammg, you don't think about being a sex symbol. You think about hOW nice it is that SO many people go wild. lt's like walking into a party where everybody knows ya. I t feels good ; the music pumps; there's energy. What's Next? What's the next logical step for a country-pop superstar? Movies and television, right? Wrong. Our left-field hero has SO far resisted the temptations Of Hollywood glamor. " I have been offered ⅳ parts and movie parts and things like that, ” he admits, "and I don't want tO sound big-headed or anything like that, but theypst weren't 〃 g ん . I was offered a p 田ⅲ "CharliesAngel's," the male guest- starring lead , and I didn ' t want to do it. I was also offered to appear in Clint Eastwood'sAny ル Can and I passed on that t00. He did put together a highly-praised television special last year that featured Jerry Lee Lewis, Emmylou Harris, and his fine road band Hare Trigger. "On the whole I was real happy with my television special. I tried to cut through a lot ofwhat you see on Other tV ShO 、・ the bad writing, the canned laughter, and all that kinda stuff. We had a meeting and I told the producers and directors Look, a 10t ofyou don't know me well, and t0 be honest with you I don ' t know you. But we're here to do this thing and l'm here t0 do it well. lt's a Special and I want it to special. I don't want it to be sketch-song- sketch-canned laughter-song-sketch-can- ned this 'n' that. lfit's an hourofthat kind ofstuff, then we ain't gonna dO it. ' ' ' Pret- ty gutsy for a Nashville country singer t0 talk to the Powers of H ollywood ! Rabbitt Just comments matter-of-factly. "That was my bottom line. I said I ' m gonna compromise a bit tO your ideas, but you re gonna have tO compromise t00 tO what I think is right. ' lt's hard, ' ' he sighs, 'You know you're dealing with an awful lot of money and awful 10t of people and studios in H ollywood and a certarn way things are done, and a certain kind of wnting commumty out there. But on the whole I liked it. B ecause it a little dif- ferent. ' ' 妬〃 0 田 0 沢孕 , and the ム . 襯ぉ agreed with good reuews of Rabbitt's fißt 910 ouung. He's still cautlous about the tv indus- try, though. "Some people have talked about a tv senes, and l've nixed 肪厩 idea com.勲ななケ, ” he reports. "lfyou work on a senes every 、 veek, the first t 、 VO or three will be quality, and then the rest are 'Here-we-go-rolling-out-the-hamburg- er. ' There's a burn-out factor ⅲ a ⅳ senes... That set c 田 1 chew you up 田 spit you out ⅲ Las Vegas! ” Yet another thing that sets him apart from other country stars is his method of workmg. MOSt country records are made in three-hour recording session blocks of tlme where studio mu SlClans learn the songs, work out th&rangements, and record , With VOices and Other instruments being added to the basic tape later. A country album can easily be made in a week this way. Eddie's are made entirely differently. He takes five months 0 仕 each year to get together with Stevens and 、 1 oy to write songs and make recording trips. 'We go in all together as a team,

COUNTRY The Battle ls On ave you looked at the Pop Music charts lately? There are country acts all over the place on them these days! On weeks when the likes of Dolly Parton and Eddie Rabbitt aren't in the Top Ten, someone like Kenny Rogers or Anne Murray cooking up another country- pop smash hit. Ronnie Milsap, Don Wil- liams, T. G. Sheppard, Terri Gibbs, The Bellamy Brothers, Crystal GayIe, and WaylonJennings are no strangers to that kind of success either. And if Barbara Mandrell and Larry Gatlin haven't had a big pop music hit yet, it isn't for lack of trying. Why, with this big-money pop muSlC crossover success, fOlkS down ln Nashville mu st be j ust about dancing ln the streets with JOY, right? by Robert K. Oermann ⅥⅡ , not exactly. There is a large seg- ment Of the Music City community that regards thiS country-to-pop crossover suc- cess With considerable suspicion, if not downright hostility. These people con- tend that the mentality geared toward making country records acceptable to pop music buyers IS country muSlC. "Real' ' country music, they say, is being pu shed aside by the country-pop sounds. Little skirmishes have been fought on this issue for several years. Nashville put itself on the as a muSlC center in the 1960 ' s with an aggressive CMA cam- paign tO get radiO staUons tO switch tO country music. At the same tlme, croon- ers 1 慊 e Eddy Arnold , J im Reeves , and Ray Price smoothed over the rough edges Of country honky-tonk music tO make it A Gallery Of Country Crossovers Don Williams 24 COUNTRY RHYTHMS Ronnie Milsap Bellamy Brothers Terr* Gibbs T. G. Sheppard Ann Murray easier for pop music listeners tO take. NOt everybody 山 ou ght this was a great idea, however; and by the 1970 ' s people like WiIIie NeIson and WayIonJenningswere saymg, in effect, “ Screw this. Let's get back to basics. Next, 慊 s without country muSlC backgrounds g turning up regularly on the country 田 a れ s. Anne Murray, Kenny Rogers, Don Williams, Linda Ronstadt , Debby Boone , and others displaced many of the Op favorites. Country fans and D.J. 's welcomed them because they felt that this made country music something to proud of. The hunger for pop music respectability reached its peak in 1974 when Olivia Newton-J0hn andJohn Dever won maJor CMA Awards on natiofial television. DoIly Parton 第第第はま義イ

Patsy Cline 挙師市 y 挙 The Life and Legend of 。 7 go ん阨〃を〃 ' んをん ス側 / 尸リ C ん 7 んどなノ / 〃 0 0 れど田ん〃訪んグ . oday, she is a legend—beloved and revered. But Patsy Cline's life, like one of her songs, was a hard luck story, the country version of such great female singers in other fields as JanisJoplin, Edith Piafand Bessie Smith. Her promising career ended abruptly on March 5 , 1963 , when the light plane she 、 travelling ln crashed near Camden, Tennessee, 85 miles west ofNashville. AI- SO lOSt in the same crash were Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes. lronically, they were flying to Kansas City, Missouri, to do a benefit for the widow ofdiscjockey CactusJack Mc- CaII, who had died in a car crash. Cowboy Copas, who along with Ernest Tubb and Hank WiIIiams had been one of the hillbilly superstars of the forties, was making a comeback with his first hit (' 'Alabam") since 1948. Hawkshaw H awkins , who had traded five trapped rabbits for his first guitar, had had big hits with "Sunnyside of the Mountain' ' and ・ 'Slowpoke, ' ' and Randy Hughes was Cowboy Copas' son-in-law and pilot of the death plane. At the time ofher death, it was rumored that the tough-talking, beer-drinking Patsy Cline was pregnant with Randy's baby. The few things ofPatsy's salvaged from the plane wreck—a cigarette lighter with the Confederate flag, a blond wig, a hair brush and a mascara wand—are now on display at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame, to which she was elected in 1973. And as if the plane crash weren't devastating enough tO the world of coun- try music, singerJack Anglin was killed in an automobile accident on his way tO Pat- sy's funeral. Patsy Cline was born Virginia Patter- son ("Patsy' ) Hensley in Winchester, Virginia, on September 8 , ・ 1932. An early starter 、 she won a tap dance contest at the By Scott Cohen . age offour, and by the time she was eight, she was playing piano and singing. Her folks were poor, and she had to drop out of school when she was 16 in order tO earn money for her family, which consisted of her parents, brother and sister. She worked in a drugstore, and after work her mother would pick her up and take her around tO 、 Where She sang on street corners for nickles and dimes. One day Patsy heard that Wally Fow- ler ofthe Grand 01e Opry was starring at the Winchester Palace theater, and she managed to get him to hear her sing. lm- pressed, Wally gave Patsy a guest spot in his show and invited her to Nashville to sing at the Opry. But Patsy was so poor, she had to sleep on a park bench the night she performed at the Opry, with her mother watching over her. And even though she was asked back to audition as a regular, Patsy and her mother had to leave because they couldn't afford to stay in Nashville another day. Back in Winchester, Patsy joined the Bill Peers Melody Playboys as a vocalist. ln 1953 , she married Gerald Cline, but the marriage lasted only three years. She was married to Charlie Dick in 1957 , and that union lasted until the end of her life. Patsy recorded a number of singles 10- cally, but were unsuccessful— however, on January 8 , 1957 she did get an audition on ス劬肝 Go り , な Ta な厩 & な , a nationally televised program. lt was the turning point in her li . One of the Godfrey re gulars , J eanette Davis, persuaded Patsy to sing a song that had been written by Don Hecht for Kay Starr—it was called ' 'Walkin' After Mid- night. ' When the audience response was measured at the end of the show, Patsy froze the applause meter. She won first prize and a recording contract With (now MCA). "WaIkin' After Midnight' ' became an instant hit, and reached the # 3 spot on Billboard's country chart. For the next three years, Patsy had only moderate success With recordings, but in 1960 she had her second big hit, "I Fall To Pjeces. ' ' But disaster struck Patsyjust after she recorded that song—an autOI れ 0- bile crash almost took her life , and shelost both eyebrows and su stained horrible scars on her forehead. From then on she wore wi gs tO hide the scars. She was about to undergo her third plastic surgery operation when she died. From "I Fall To Pieces' ' until her death, Patsy had one hit after ' 'Whén I Get another— " C razy , Through With You, You'll Love Me "She's Got You, ” and "Sweet T00 , ' Dreams. ' ' She was one ofthe first country singers tO achieve success on bOth the country and pop mu sic charts , and the highest ranked female singer at the Grand Ole Op . She even managed to dethrone Kitty Wells as "The Queen Of Country Music. ' ' She was making top money, drove a Cadillac, and lived in a home with gold dust imbedded in the paint. Her cur- rent record at the time Of her death was "Leaving On Your Mind. Today, Patsy Cline is a legend both ⅲ - Side and outside country rnuSlC circles. Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris had hits with "I Fall To Pieces' ' and 'Sweet Dreams' respectively, and Patsy has been an lnspiration tO virtually every female country singer. One of the most memorable scenes in the movie Coal 外イなの側 g ん involved the meeting be- tween Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline, and this November , the same people who made that movie will produce a film based on Patsy's life. lt is not yet known if Beverly D'Angelo, who portrayed Patsy Cline so magnificently in Co を外イグな の側 g ん , will play the role of Patsy in her life story. ln the remembrance of Patsy by her friend Jo Ann Thomas which accom- panies this story, JO Ann tells 0f the last time she and Patsy were together, throw- ing cherry pits out Ofa car window on the way to an airport in Pennsylvania. We'd like to think that those seeds have grown intO trees and are still there along that highway, part of the legacy left by the great Patsy C line in the all-too-brief time she spent 田 ong us. COUNTRY RHYTHMS 43

盟・朝 Oa k 兪 3 ・ 3 鱒 3 0 0 a す一 me by Jo-Ann Geffen A Brief History of the Oak Ridge Boys Way back in the 1940 ' s the city 0f0 Ridge, Tennessee was the site ofthe U. S. government's uranium plants, which refined the material used in the first atomic bombs. The entire city was surrounded by fences, and it was necessary to have high-level clearance to even enterthe area. TheArmyhad built several recreational cen- ters in the area, and from neighboring Knoxville the country/gospel quartet known as the Country Cut-Ups came frequently t0 perform for the workers and residents 0f0 Ridge. Læ fans began calling them the 0 Ridge Quartet. After the war, the 0 日 n foursome broke up, but soon four other singers took the name and settled ⅲ NashviIle as the Oak Ridge Quartet. The members kept changing, but the name stayed the same, until about twenty years ago when the group began billing itself as the 0 戒 Ridge Boys. Of the 0 Ridge Boys that we know today , Bill GoIden is the one who has been with the group thelongest. Hej oined in 1964. The other performers who were in the group when hejoined have sinceleft, t0 be replaced by DuaneAllen in 1966 , Richard Sterban in 1972 , andJoe Bonsall in 1973. And that's how the present-day group came tO be. JOE BONSALL DATE OF BIRTH: May 18. PLACE OF BIRTH : PhiIadeIphia, Pennsylvania. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT: 5 ' 11 % ” , 160 lbs. EYE AND HAIR COLOR: Brown and Brown. MARITAL STATUS: Married. KIND OF GIRL: I married her. MOVIES: Co な IM 催なの側 g んなれ TV SHOW: "NBA on CBS. ” MUSIC: Commercial. FOOD : Southern style , home-cooked meals. COLOR : Blue. ACTOR/ACTRESS: All-time, John Wayne. Dolly, and l've never seen her prmt pertaining tO the music business. BOOKS: Avid magazine and newspaper reader; I like current events; any FAVORITES HOBB IES : Collecting antique automobiles , animals , gardening. EYE AND HAIR COLOR: Blue and Brown. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT: 6 ' 0 ” , 170 旧 s. PLACE OF BIRTH: Taylortown, Texas. DATE OF BIRTH: April 29. DUANE ALLEN MARITAL STATUS : Married. nothing t0 talk about, but that's okay t00! and have a sense of humor. She ' s got t0 like music and sports or we ' Ⅱ have KIND OF GIRL: Being picky, I like girls that are tall, slender, good-looking MOVIES: All-time, and 砂〃 ; This year, 7 ルノ z & 既 where I can see sporting events and movies. llike "Quincy" and "Mash. ' 、一 SHOW : I don ' t watch as much network television since I got cable , along with Eddie Rabbitt and the 0 戒 Ridge Boys! best of pop and country mixed , a little Neil Diamond , Barbra Streisand , MUSIC: M. 0. R. ー go ( adult contemporary radio. I like to listen to the FOOD : Steaks and good ltalian food. COLOR: lt ' s always been blue. Pacino, Robert DeNiro and SaIIy FieIds. ACTOR/ACTRESS: All-time, John Wayne. Among those I like are Stephen King and Robert Ludlam. favorites are super-esplonage and spooky books. My two favonte authors are BOOKS: I read a 10t. Novels of kinds, fiction or non-fiction, but my FAVORITES like riding my bicycle, playing tennis, and listening to kinds of good music. favorite teams are Philly teams ; my favorite is baseball—l love the Phillies ! I HOBB IES : Basically I' m a sports fanatic , watching and participating. My WILLIAM L GOLDEN DATE OF BIRTH: January 12. PLACE OF BIRTH: Brewton, Alabama. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT: 6 ' 1 ” 175 lbs. EYE AND HAIR COLOR: Blue and DarkBrown with natural grey. HOBBIES: Horseback riding and music. Relaxing at home (Bill owns a 200-year-01d historic southern plantation home in the Tennessee countryside. ) FAVORITES BOOKS: Right now—l'm en 」 oying American Western Art and Photography books. ACTOR/ACTRESS: l'm a fan of a 10t of them. COLOR : Blue and Earthtones. FOOD : Peanuts , cheese , vegetables , ice cream , good bread and good wi ne. MUSIC: Music is very important to me. I like kinds, depending on different days, different rnoods, different seasons. Ⅳ SHOW: "The Tonight Show. ' MOVIES: That changes the time. The last one I saw was お / / go 伽 . KIND OF GIRL: AII kinds. Like music, it depends on different times, different places, different mornents. AII girls have special qualities. I love girls—that's ur . MARITAL STATUS : Divorced. RICHARD STERBAN DATE OF BIRTH: April 24. PLACE OF BIRTH: Camden, New Jersey. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT: 5 ' 10 % ” , 145 lbs. EYE AND HAIR COLOR: Blue and Brown. HOBBIES: Jogging. l'm a sports fan. (Richard is part-owner 0f the Nashville Sounds , Greensboro Hornets and SaIem Redbirds baseball teams. ) Good music of 司 kinds. FAVORITES BOOKS : J im Fixx ' s CompIete Book of Running ・ ACTOR/ACTRESS: I don't have a favorite. COLOR: Green. FOOD: ltalian fo ( ⅵ . MUSIC: Contemporary country. 、 SHOW : Sporting events. MOVIES: んな 0 〃 7 ' 0 乢 (Richard was a mernber of the Stamps Quartet MARITAL STATUS : Married. KIND OF GIRL: Blonde, relatively thin. who sang with Elvis during the filmed concerts. )

' ' Left-Field Hero ” by Robert K. Oermann ddie Rabbitt is surely the treated us real nice. lt's always been extra special on the road. They like me and I most unlikely country feel the same about them. l'm just not star Of our tlmes. For starters, he isn't a Despite these accolades , Eddie Rabbitt much for awards and this kind of stuff. ' Southerner. ・、 Tennessee has been repeatedly ignored by the most drawl when Rabbitt talks, for his roots are important Nashville honor of , the A Comitted NashviIIian in the biggest Yankeeland of , the New CMA Award. Even though he sells mil- He hastens to add, however, "I do feel York/New Jersey metropolis. ln a lions Of records tO country music fans , part of this whole N ashville scene. I know mu sical field that admires those with deep plays tO sell-out crowds at country con- here; and I am part of Nashville American heritage, Rabbitt is the son of certs , and has written such glant country first-generation lrish immlgrants. He country. ' ' He has learned, as every coun- hits as Ronnie Milsap's "Pure Love' ' and try star must, that: "We're 1 in this isn't rural, for his father worked in the EIvis PresIey's "Kentucky Rain, ' ' he has business tO help each Other. ' ' You won't most industrial section Of Newark. And never won a C MA Male Vocalist of the find Eddie Rabbitt out partying in Music neither his birthplace of B rooklyn nor his Year, Single ofthe Year, or Entertainer of home place in East Orange, New Jersey City's clubs, or hobnobbing at record the Year award. Most times, he isn't even could be described as " countryside. ' company receptions, but he is definitely a nominated. Any Other ambitious young singer would be pounding his fists ⅲ committed Nashvillian. not gonna But country he is, and ⅲ a Big Way. frustration; but Rabbitt insists he doesn't be movmg anywhere. l'm gonna stay He has two gold albums, one platinum, feel slighted ⅲ the least. "Awards from fourteen top-ten country hits, eight coun- here, ' ' he says, adding, "the Nashville countryside is where a guy like me as a kid the industry are nice, but that's not what tr ツ number-ones, and eight or in New Jersey and New York growing up country-to-pop crossover smashes that in- l'm after, ' ' he says.' 'UItimately, it is the in the city, dreams of. ' clude his million-selling "Drivin' My Life people that will decide. I don't want to lt's true. He な part of Nashville's con- sound like a politician or anything, but it Away. ' ' The walls 0f Eddie Rabbitt's temporary country scene; but the literally な the. people that are out there in Music ROW offices are literally covered same, he's never been noted for dOing with honors, principally his 31 BMI the Milwaukees and Denvers and the towns that keep you in bu siness. At things the standard Nashville way. He son gwnung citatlons , his Grammy this point, ifl win any big awards it will be was among the first Nashville acts t0 100k nomination (for "Every Which Way But tO L. A. for career management, for in- because of the people out there. ' Loose' ' ) , his five ・召″ル 0 確イ magazine awards, and the gold records of his part- stance. ' 'lt's not that I went outside "There was a point where I really Nashville for my management delib- ners Even Stevens (for Dr. H00k's needed the Nashville industry to in- erately, " he insists. "lt's just that I hap- ' 'When You're ln Love With a BeautifuI terested in me SO I could get my songs pened t0 meet so me awfully good people recorded and get action on the charts, ' ' he Woman' ' as a writer) and David Malloy out in L. A. WhO were very ambitious and (for Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make lt "and I ″ need that, of contmues, very hip t0 what was happemn' and I went Through the Night' ' and Ray Stevens' course. But tO a point l've never really with them because of feelings, really, and "Gitarzan' a producer). Scattered worried about what the industry people what they could d0. ' said. ' ' As far as his relationship to the about the 0 伍 ice rooms are country muSlC Unlike most Nashville stars, Eddie is trophies like ~ 必り ' s 1978 New Country marnstream country muSIC world, Eddie extremely jealous of his pnvacy. The sees things this way: "l've always felt that Entertainer plaque, varlous awards in the tourist buses dO not travel by his home, we were kind of left-field heroes. I don't shape ofmusical notes from local country and the house on Music Row he does know if'heroes' is the right word, but ever groups, 田 1 lrish-American honor, 田記 business 伝 om is unmarked. When he srnce we first went out on the road the the key to the city of East Orange, New comes home to Nashville, Eddie Rabbitt country fans knew I was from New Jersey. They ' re visible symbols 0f his leaves his country stardom behind and Jersey, born in Brooklyn, yet they always country music stardom. 34 COUNTRYRHYTHMS △ D D

Complicating things still further, the prestigious Country Music Founda- several Nashville acts began imitating the tlOn states: pop- country mixers , and in no tlrne it was The argument is not so much against practically impossible t0 hear the dif- country-pop as a country music sub- ference between Larry Gatlin, Barbara category. lt's more against the MandreIl, The 0 Ridge Boys, Tanya tendency of this industry, especially Tucker, CharIy McCIain, or Dolly Par- radiO and network T 、ア , to ton singles and those ofthe L. A. and New constantly bombard the public with York pop acts. Then along came a bunch な particular sound , tO the extent Of ' country performers that Other impoftant country musrc 、 music takes country muSlC rntO sub-genres, such as bluegrass, are Bill Anderson: previously unexplored territory. Some of completely ignored.... How many these, like Rosanne Cash, Carlene country stations will play Bill Mon- “ These people want Carter, E 1 Scruggs' sons, David Allan roe's latest bluegrass release, in spite Coe, and Joe Sun, have established of the fact that bluegrass music festi- to come 1n and take Nashville reputations or bloodlines. vals are popular all across the country Others, like Gail Davies, LacyJ. DaIton, and... on the college campus circuit! our muslc away. Alabama, and The Amazing Rhythm Aces, come 伝 0n1 outside the country WesIey Rose, who nms Acuff-Rose Publishing, one of the biggest and most numbers. Entertainer Billy Walker is par- mamstream. There iS association formed in reac- ticularly vocal about these “ outsiders. respected music publishers ⅲ M usic C ity , tion to of this called ACE (Association "This used to be a very simple, trust- agreed with Pinson ⅲ a 沢んれ 0 沢 0 of C ountry Entenainers). A book has interview last April : worthy town, ' ' he told a Memphis been wntten on the topic already , Everett newspaper. " Then these people came in I can ' t believe that when someone J. Corbin's Stom 仇ルのん″な C ど pushed the country music button and prostituted our business and watered ス ga 豆外イ oden ~ CO り外イな . The Nash- they do so NOT to hear country down our music. This was done by big ville Mu sic Association (NMA) en- money on the East and West Coast. ' music. I think they push it because courages the recording of pop, Jazz, and Singer/songwriter Bill Anderson said, that's what they want to hear. lfthey black music ⅲ Nashville now , as well as " These people want to come rn and take wanted to hear pop , they would push the city's traditional country. Prominent the pop button. . if they are going our muSlC away. muSIC industry figures have issued Most observers put the responsibility tO call themselves a country station statements on opposite sides Of the pop- for the country-pop trend on the shoulders they should play country music. versus- country controversy. The b attle Of the artists, themselves. The late singer lines are being drawn ⅲ Nashville; and Radio is seen as the mam culprit by George Morgan once tOld a pre ss con- some of the opening shots have already Nashville ' s most outspoken AC E mem- ference, "What we're against is people been fired. On one side are the tradi- bers. Vic Willis has even suggested to having a hit in the country field and then tionalist fans and artists whO grew up with イ耘 City ルどゞ that "As a last resort, we denying on a network TV show that the old country music way oflife. On the would file a complaint with the FCC to see they're country. ' ' Outspoken singerJean Other side are the sophisticated musrc if we are being discriminated agalnst. Shepard was astounded to hear the likes of business people with pop or rock musrc Others lay the blame at the feet of the Donny and Marie Osmond on country backgrounds. One wants country muSlC outsiders WhO have been C01 lng tO radio ⅲ 1977. "Now they're beautiful tO stay as it has been; the Other either ac- Nashville record labels in mcreasing children, and they're very talented, ' ' she tively dislikes the nasal whine of old-style country, simply doesn't care about it one A Gallery Of "New Wave ” Country Stars way or the Other, or is actively pursuing big-money crossover success. 、 'Some of the trends that are gomg on now could be the death knell of country music, ' ' Opry star Vic Willis told ルのんル / magazine in 1977. To the N ashville newspapers he elaborated , "There's no varlety ofmusrc anymore. lt sounds the same. Turn the dial and radio stations sound alike. ' ' Hall of Fame member Hank Snow believes, 'Crossover muSlC, POP muSlC, middle- of- the-road or whatever you call it has come ln and drowned the b asic country aftist. ' ' He further to 旧 newspaperman BiII Hance that, "The country music fans want country muSlC and dammit we're gomg t0 see that they get it! ' ' These folks are hopping mad about the small number of records that are played on the radio, and about the country-pop flavor of nearly all the ones that are. B0b Pinson, of David AIIan Coe LacyJ. Dalton Rosanne C ash C arlene Carter Rodney C roweli COUNTRYRHYTHMS 25 Gail Davies 翁 00

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when her career demands her to be clad in some Of television's 1 OSt lavish designs. 'l'm ready to get in my Jeans now. I love them. I think I get a different attitude when l'm all dressed up, don't you? ” she asked honestly. "When I have a skirt ing modest—l find I sit differently, walk differently, and the clothes give me that attitude. lt's like that beautiful old song 'I FeeI Pretty, ' she gestured with one hand displaymg beautifully long, and well groomed, red nails. 'l've enjoyed, since l've been out rn California doing my show, having a mamcurlst come tO my home, and I get a mamcure once a week. That's the 房 lgg ど立 treat l've ever had. Maybe l'd had five in my whole life. And when someone plays string instruments the way I do ( b 」 0 Ken and Barbara's eleven-year-old son, Matthew, often travels with mom on the road. and pedal steel guitar) you can't have mce hands. With this treat, 1100k and feel as if I have someone else's hands in front Of me. ' ' She laughed, inspecting her right good for my halr or for my face, but When Barbara met Ken, she was founeen hand. because l'm lazy. I do five days a week out and he was a drummer with Barbara's dad's band, The MandreIIs. Barbara doesn't take the Hollywood here Of my show— fourteen hours a star treatment' ' casually. This vibrant day— and I ' rn pooped by the weekend , so While she's not working and な enJOY- mother of two (' 'My son Matthew was I save that time for the kids and Ken. I ing bemg Mrs. Dudney, Barbara admit- eleven in May and my daughterJamie look like an old hag, ' ' she teased ⅲ her ted that there truly aren ' t any make-up five. ' ' ) admitted that at home she's wife husky voice, " 田】 d I love every minute of hints at home. and motherfirst. She's been happily mar- "I love to go without make-up or lt. ried to Ken Dudney for over twelve years. A hit tv show 田 ld a hundred nights a combmg my hair. Not because I think it's year of road tounng call for a hairdresser and a make-up person. There are hun- dreds ofthe finest in Hollywood, and Bar- bara has found her favorites. ' 'I have a hairdresser here, Ron McDowell, who has been getting my hair ln great shape. Due tO the summer tours, tWO ShOWS a night, someumes l'm drenched when I come Off stage and Ron has tO start with me 伝 om letter A. My hair was m such ter- rible shape, and Ron doesn't allow me to have a permanent, SO we decided tO have my hair woven. ' By "weaving' ' Barbara was able to let her hair go back to its natural dark color with blond highlights woven intO it. The advantage? "NO dark roots! ' ' she replied boastfully. Several years ago while Barbara was recordmg an album, the record company hired make-up artist Bobbie Joy to work with her. "She's the first and only person I ' ve ever let totally stnp my face and do it themself. ” lt was obvious that Barbara has implicit trust in Bobbie, and the result is lovely: beautiful and natural, 0 being overdone. A trace 0f soft false eye- lashes ()I even wear them to the grocery store, ' ' she's been known tO reveal) em- phasize the sparkle in Barbara's big eyes which never seem tO tire. Admitting that the tv show is the most difficult physical strain she ' s ever expe- rrenced, Barbara didn't seem tO mind the fact that road touring does take its tOll. Mrs. Dudney grew up thinking she was t00 skinny ・ 12 COUNTRYRHYTHMS

honesty ⅲ that statement— and in her sisterly pride. Back home ( " Please stress Perhaps that is why she recently had a eyes— that made you understand exactly that home iS Tennessee! ! ! ' ' ) the entlre custom-made touring bus designed for how she lt. her. "lt's not school bus time," Barbara Mandrell family lives near each 0 市 er. ln And she cares enough to ask ifher inter- fact, sister Louise and her husband, R. C. explained , while describing her $ 250 , 000 vlewerhas enough for her article. "l don't B anning, live right next door. lnvestment which harbors a rmcrowave know if I shared enough beauty secrets, Barbara emphasized her alle gance to oven and a sheepskin bedspread. but the t れ一山 is, there aren't that many. 'l've got some beauty advantages ln Tennessee. Although most of her school What Barbara didn't realize was that my own room on the bus that I didn't years were spent growmg up in Los beauty secrets dO not necessarily come have ⅲ my old bus. My father and Ken Angeles, home is "definitely Tennessee. from a bottle ofmake-up or from a tube of and I designed the inside ofthis, my third We're out in the boonies, and I have a SO lip gloss. This old-fashioned, family- bus. I have a make-up mirror and can see Of country-life existence. oriented singer is proof that beauty so the back of my head. You see, other than the ShOW wraps for the season, Barbara, Ken, and the kids plan to move comes from within—the love She shares on tv or rmportant things , I ' Ⅱ always d0 theirbelongings from their rented Beverly for her family and fans ()I think my my own make-up. ' One honest beauty favorites are the very 01d people and the house t0 a new home Tennessee. tip Barbara shared was that she uses ab- A house that Barbara had always little bitty children. When I see them clap- . Just a round solutely no hot curlers. dreamed of owning was up for sale, and pmg or stamping their feet to a song, that brush and a blow dryer in order to create although it took a while for the seller and just makes me feel like l've accomplished her feathered wind-blown look. buyer to agree on a pnce, Barbara and Gettin g back to the pride she has ⅲ her something. ” ). bus, Barbara added that the suspension of Ken bought their dream-house. I won- And accomplished she has... Bar- the bus is such that it has a swaymg dered if this "dream house' ' was one of bara's singles constantly hit the top of the motion while it rides—no bumps. This is her happiest dreams. country charts , her variety series is a hit , 。 Winmng C ountry Entertainer of the important t0 Barbara who sleeps any- her family support is unbeatable, and her where from eight tO ten hours at a shOt Year was. When I walked 0 圧 the stage, I and home life iS a success. 〕 NO Ⅵ , heard one ofthe stagehands shout, 、 L00k, while riding on the road. She often takes な accomplishments. And if you want one Ofus won! ! ' and that made me feel the the kids on the road with her, and they the best beauty tip of , accomplishments happiest. ' ' There was a warm-hearted sleep with their mom ⅲ the bus. are beautiful! Barbara excused herself to put on her comfy j eans and a western shirt. She look- ed a bit tinier now than she did in her long dress—probably because now her trim figure and teeny hips were emphasized. I complimented B arbara , wh0 admitted that she has always thought she was skin- ny and flat-chested. As far as the latter statement, 伝 0n1 one female tO another, I assured B arbar 、 a that that was no lon ger the case. She laughed. Yes, for her tiny framework, she turned outjust fine. Male opmions? They'd have t0 agree that she has a marvelous 部 lre. Surprisingly, when I asked Barbara for her diet secrets , she didn ' t have any. "Today has been so busy I think I ate a half of a hard boiled egg. ' ' She was dead senous. "lt's true, I don't eat right. I eat whatever there is at the time. I don't eat three meals a day except when l'm on vacatlon. ' ' But vacatlons come rarely, and most Of the day's precious hours are devoted to tv work with her sisters, Louise and lrlene. Three beauties in one family doesn't seem fair, but that's the Mandrell family, thanks to manager-dad lrby and mom Mary. 'You know when you have a sister that looks like Lou ise ( the dark-haired raven) you get an inferiority complex. ' ' She revealed , however , that there wasn ' t any sense Of competition growrng up with them. "The three ofus are really amazed because there's really not one lnterview that goes by that we don't mention each other. We were brought up in a close Barbara MandreII in action—beauty eyes the ho 旧 er. needs, you're there! ' ' she added with 3 COUNTRYRHYTHMS 13

obe Hayes and Art Carney (left) hose 0 their bosses in ど T, んなノ 0 ろ S ん膨カ while Kristy McNichol (right) aims a different & 0 れ of nozzle at a luckless fellow in The Ⅳをん 7 を乙なル 0 G 印 ous and powerful slice of real American a fortune. When Burt played a Cary- which the public didn't expect from Clint. tears and guts and grit, should have won Grant-type of jet setting jewel thief last Later in 1980 , Eastwood had a box-office bonanza in the sequel to E の , ルんル year in 沢 g ん Cut, the film was a flop. Best Picture of the Year, t00. ()t was a Even C lint came a-cropper in 1980 with 召ん 00 リルル毎物″ Can, which shame, 記 so , that Beverly D'Ange10's featured the further adventures of Philo お ro 0 召″ though a country movie, it beautiful acting as the tragic Patsy Cline had a quiet, downbeat, melancholy tone Beddoe and his irresistible orangutan, wasn't honored with a Best Supporting Actress nomination. There may be a Dennis Quaid, as an asplring singer' displays the latest in urban cowboy wear—The chance soon tO remedy thiS oversight since MoteI Getaway Suit—in The Ⅳ愈ん The ん愈んなル劔ど 0 G 印元 there are plans to make a film about Patsy Cline, SO great was the interest stirred by her short appearance in the Lynn story. Hopefully, D'Angelo will again play the great singer. ) T ip Of The lceberg But though March 31 was a night to remember for country fans , it was really Just the tip of the iceberg, Just a symptom of a much bigger phenomenon that's shaking the movie industry. TO put it simply , moues with country themes and people have become the bread and butter of Hollywood. These ・ not easy times for mOVle- makers. They are afraid they don ' t know what America wants tO see. They make glganto flops like 〃どのな G 厩ど , 794 ノ and Can ' / & ど外イ耘 . They're up a tree. They know they can make money with exciting space adventure stories like & ル and teen-pleasers about homicidal maniacs chopping everybody up. But the only kind of movie that the American public in the heartland 側イ the cities is paymg their inflated money tO see regularly are movies that shOW the sincere ups and downs, the wild raucous fun, and the everyday heartaches 0f down home Amencans ・—m a 、 country rnovles. The biggest stars in the country, in terms Of consistent hits, are Burt Reynolds and C 1 int Eastwood , and they're biggest in country movies. Burt'S "classics' '. like the Smokey films are the original raunchy, dirt-road, car-chasing, good-ole-boy ripsnorters—and they make