Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 127, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 28, 1980 Page: 15 of 16
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Top guitarist and singer
Feliciano has new single
THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, Texas, Wednesday, May 28,1980—15.
FRANK AND ERNEST by Bob Thaves
By YARDENAARAR
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The
statistics paint a rosy picture:
More than 86 million records
sold over the last 15 years, 32
gold albums, two Grammies,
numerous best guitarist
citations from such magazines
as Playboy and Guitar Player.
But the reality is a bit less
glowing for Jose Feliciano these
days. While he continues to fill
concert halls worldwide, he’s a
record star without a big name
label and hasn’t put out an
album since his last record
company failed two years ago.
And in pop music’s current
Brave New Wave World,
Feliciano’s unique blend of jazz,
rock and blues has been more or
less submerged.
But the blind guitarist didn’t
sing himself out of New York’s
Puerto Bican ghetto by sitting
around and moping, and he’s
taking matters into his own
hands this time, too.
While his managers talk
album deals with major
companies, Feliciano has
entertainment,
.people, sounds and screens
released a single on an in-
dependent label and is taking it
around to every disc jockey and
talk show host who’ll listen.
More than a few are listening,
in part because there’s a news
hook to the record. It’s called
“I’m Coming Home Again,’’
and Feliciano has dedicated it
to the safe release of the
American hostages in Iran.
“The song was given to me at
a time when I was going,
through a lot of turmoil in my
life. I was going through the
''same thing as Lee Marvin,’’
Feliciano says, referring to a
difficult divorce from his wife
which was complicated by the
fact that she had also been his
manager.
It also more or less coincided
with the debacle of his
association with Private Stock
Big league baseball
can be addictive
Singer Milsap
rocks tunes, pins
By PETER J. BOYER
A P Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The
baseball season, owing to the
intervention of some unseen
benevolent force, procedes as
usual. A surprising fit of sanity
came over both sides of the
dispute just at the edge of a
1 catastrophe, saving the
national game.
And, ensuring the equanimity
of baseball fans until Sep-
tember or so, when most of the
I beloved nines are
mathematically eliminated
3 from glory.
A strike would have been
ugly, and cruel. Baseball, after
all, conspired for generations to
addict America to its seductive
rhythms, employing in its
conspiracy unwitting grand-
fathers and uncles and Moms
and Dads, who sujik ttfie
baseball hook into ./innocent
children by gradually revealing
to them the game’s everlasting
verities.
Thus, to be a baseball fan is to
answer tflfe call of your fathers.
An insidious addiction, it is.
But baseball suddenly lost its
mind, and fans were left with
prospects of a summer of
sorrow. Baseball would be
gone.
For NBC, baseball with-
I drawal would have been ex-
crutiating. The network's first
I few weeks of Saturday baseball
telecasts rated quite nicely;
and 1980 is NBC’s turn to
televise the lucrative World
Series.
Remember, this is a network
that has already lost the
Summer Olympics.
So, NBC had devised an
alternate plan, a baseball fix, so
to speak.
On Saturday, where the
Game of the Week used to be,
I NBC scheduled a dialogue on
the baseball crisis to be
followed by highlights of the
sixth game of the 75 World
Series between the Reds and
Red Sox, the greatest game
| ever played.
This Saturday, had the pain
persisted (and if advertisers
didn’t mind), NBC planned to
televise the early rounds of the
College World Series from
Omaha. After that, the network
would have televised minor
league games and even some
; The return
! of Star Wars
By BOB THOMAS
Associated Press Writer
THE EMPIRE STRIKES
BACK displays the same
soaring imagination that made
“Star Wars” a filmmaking
classic, most other space
movies seem clunky and earth-
bound in comparison. The same
crowd is back: Luke Skywalker
(Mark Hamill), Han Solo
(Harrison Ford), Princess Leia
(Carrie Fisher), plus C-3PO,
R2-D2, Chewbaca, Darth Vader
and Ben Kenobi (Alec Guin-
ness) in a brief spectral ap-
pearance. The dialogue is flip,
the action swift, the special
effects superior. Despite all
this, the film is something of a
letdown, as is inevitable with a
sequel. The thrill of discovery
is always more intense than the
sense of recognition. Fur-
thermore, the “Empire” en-
ding seems unsatisfying, as
though the filmmakers were
saying “To be continued.”
Which, of course, it will be.
Rated PG, only because of the
intense action.
Japanese baseball.
As awful as a baseball strike
would have been,'it may have
cured the baseball disease. By
July, America may not have
needed major league baseball.
After a few weeks without a
big-league baseball fix, we
might have grown accustomed
to another brand of the game;
different, but in its way more
satisfying. How many times
have you seen the modern big
leaguer go about his job with
practiced nonchalance, or
heard the grating phrase, “It’s
just a job, like anything else”?
They don’t say that in college
ball, or in the minors. In
baseball’s nether reaches, the
game is played with en-
thusiasm, by players who don’t
arrive at the park with their
publicity agents in tow.
Their version of the game
might have caught on.
Remember what happened
when NBC started paying
proper attention to college
basketball — viewers tuned out
the millionaire businessmen of
the NBA and started having fun
with the kids. The NBA had to
rush out and buy Magic
Johnson, whose enthusiasm is
chronic, to save itself.
The major league baseball
strike might have been the best
thing that ever happened to
college baseball.
To hell with college baseball.
The Dodgers are in first place.
By JOE EDWARDS
Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE, Term. (AP) —
Blind country music kingpin
Ronnie Milsap wants to im-
prove his bowling average.
Milsap has neglected bowling
while his singing career has
rolled along and knocked down
some of country music’s top
awards.
By perfecting his approach
steps and using the same form
repeatedly to throw the ball,
Milsap once boasted a 161
average.
But lately he has been more
involved with his singing.
“I haven’t bowled in a while,
but I used to go a lot,” the
likeable Milsap said in an in-
terview in an office at RCA
Records.
“When you have success, you
get too busy to do some things. I
enjoyed it, and I need the
exercise.”
Milsap, 34, blind since birth,
is the only singer voted male
vocalist of the year three times
(1974,197(1,1977) by the Country
Music Association. His current
two-sided hit, “My Heart” and
“Silent Night,” has been zip-
ping up the country music
charts as quickly as his
previous hits like “It Was
Almost Like a Song," “Only
One Love in My Life,” “Legend
in My Time,” “Night Things”
and “Pure Lave.”
One of his occupational
hazards has been falling off the
stage, which has happened two
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Records, the label tha' failed.
But Feliciano is obviously
happier discussing music than
the vagaries of his career and
personal life. So talk turns to his
predilection for what people in
the record industry call covers
— songs that have been
popularized by others.
Most of Feliciano's hits have
been re-tools of prior hits. His
1968 breakthrough smash,..
"Tight My Fire,” was a Doors
tune; other examples include
the Beatles’ “And I Love Her”
and the Mamas and the Papas’
"California Dreamin".
At 34, Feliciano is confident
that he’ll be able to put his
career back on track despite the
record ^industry’s current
fascination with early ’60s-style
rock ’n’ roll, which he jokingly
calls “New Ripple.”
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or three times. Now, before his
concerts, he paces the steps
between his piano and the edge
of the stage.
But that doesn’t always work.
Once in Bakersfield, Calif., he
paced off the distance only to
fall off the stage when
arrangements were altered.
"I fell right in this lady's
lap,” recalled Milsap, who’s
able to discuss his blindness
with humor, and often jokes
about it. "It startled me and
her, too.
“I don’t feel bad about it. It’s
happened to Charley Pride and
Waylon Jennings also. ’
“I don’t consider.it (blind-
ness) a handicap but more of an
inconvenience. But I would be
better at what I do if 1 could see,
because I could read faces and
do arrangements myself; I’d
definitely be a whole lot better
at music.”
He vowed to have more fun at
his concerts this year. He was
disenchanted with some 1979
concerts that were in theaters-
in-the-round and drew stuffy
audiences. It was like throwing
a gutter ball.
“When the fun level gets
below 98 percent, you need to
take a look at things,” Milsap
said. “Some of the theaters-in-
the-round and the showrooms
didn't appreciate my music as
much as I wanted.
“Slick shows don’t appeal to
me. I felt a little stiff. I enjoy
auditorium shows where the
audience isn’t inhibited.”
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