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Toronto: Sit through a one woman (lady)show? Sounds impossible but 3200 man-aged to cram into each of the four per-formances of the English ChanteusePetula Clark when she appeared at theO'Keefe March 25 through 27. From themoment she bounced onto the stage,without an introduction, it was obviousshe had won the hearts of everyone inthe audience. A good portion of her pro-gramme was in French but it only addedto her charm and in this day and ageof our Bi-Bi problems made the clashof English and French Canada non-existent.

Petula Clark's repertoire was personal,emotional and humble. Her style wasstrongly reminiscent of June Christie andFran Warren with a strong influence ofEdith Piaf.

Many times throughout her perform.ance Petula Clark treated her audienceto numbers she had written herself, onewhich is a must for release called "TwoRivers".

How did the audience react? Thiswasn't the usual hogtown audience. Ifthey sat on their hands it was becausetheir palms smarted, from applauding. Asthey filed out of the theatre the predom-inantly under 25 audience could be heardhumming and singing Pet's latest hit"Sign Of The Times".

EDMONTON SPORIGNIS YOUillEdmonton: Plans have been announced for the most extensive and exciting promotion ofEdmonton's youth ever experienced in this city. Co -sponsored by CJCA and The EdmontonJournal, "Salute '66" will spotlight youth and their story during the Easter holidays,April 13 through 15. The story will be told through four programs. Kicking off proceedingswill be a Teen Conference with two hundred delegates representing every major teen groupin the Edmonton area. For two days, speakers and delegates will explore the problemsand image of "Edmonteens". A Celebration Banquet and semi -formal dance will climaxthe conference with music by the CJCA Nomads. April 14 will see a stage show featuringthe best in local singers, dancers, and musical groups and will take place at the JubileeAuditorium. This portion of the proceedings is being directed at the adults and admissionwill be restricted to the adults and those accompanied by an adult. April 14 and 15 willallow Edmonton's Junior Art Council an opportunity to show off their junior artists,sculptors, ballet dancers, musicians and entertainers. The four -day extravaganza will cometo an end with the throwing of a giant "Salute '66 Hop" at the Gardens featuring theCJCA Nomads, The Lords and the Internationally famous Canadian group, The Guess Whofrom Winnipeg. Both CJCA and The Edmonton Journal have laid on an extensive pub-licity campaign with the net result that the Province's Department of Cultural Affairs hasshown great interest and approval, in view of their own Province -wide teen conferenceto be held in May.

CFRB, CHUM Rouse Tom WilsonAppointed Exec.Board - Tor. Mus.

Interest In TruscottToronto: Betty Kennedy of CFRB andCHUM's Larry Solway have created muchpublic interest in the Steven Truscottcase. It was Betty Kennedy who initiallystarted the ball rolling when she inter-viewed Mrs. Isabel LeBourdais, authorof "The Trial Of Steven Truscott" on herCFRB 3-4 PM show. Solway, who hasbeen experiencing a great deal of success,rating -wise, with his CHUM's "SpeakYour Mind" open line show, also inter-viewed Mrs. LeBourdais and allowed hislate night listeners to ask questions ofMrs. LeBourdais. It was obvious from thenumber of calls received then and sincethat the general public was incensed atthe case, with the majority in favour ofaction that would clear Truscott from aconviction of rape and murder but wouldbe of little solace to one, who at the ageof 14, heard that he would be "takenfrom this place and hanged by the neckuntil you are dead".

The many years spent by Mrs. Le-Bourdais, reading and rereading the evi-dence, making many investigations onher own, and finally drafting a layman'saccount of the case, obviously not forgain, a best seller would be small rewardbut through the assistance of Canadianbroadcasters like Kennedy, Solway andothers, a freed Truscott a more fittingreward.

Toronto: The Toronto Musicians Associa-tion (Local 149) announces the appoint-ment of Mr. Tom Wilson to their Execu-tive Board. Mr. Wilson has been a mem-ber of Local 149 for the past five yearsand will direct most of his attention atthe younger musician of which he is oneand has been a working member, withthe hit -making group known as LittleCaesar and The Consuls. Local 149 is oneof the largest locals in North America,representing over 3000 musicians, a largepercentage being under the age of 25.It is hoped with this appointment thatmany of the misunderstandings that haveoccurred in the past regarding the activityof the young musician will be alleviatedand perhaps leave the way open for morepublic relations with the public.

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positive that gals haven't got a monopolyon the Go Go scene. Rick performs regu-larly on the CJOH TVer "Saturday Date"as well as the Ottawa teen hot spot, Lake-side Gardens. /// A new film on New-foundland to be produced by the New-foundland Tourist Development will, in alllikeliiood, use as its theme the Melbournerecording of "Come Home Newfound-lander" by Tom, Jim and Garth. This isone of the hottest selling singles in theMelbourne catalogue with sales comingfrom every province in Canada. /// GibbKerr, manager of Joey Hollingsworth andRich Little, finds a growing demand forRich's impersonations at many radio sta-tions across the country. For this reasonGib will bow his Spotlight label with a

novelty release of "Real Live Girl" and"Without Stars". Use will be restricted toradio stations and will not be availableto the public. /// The Esquire A Go Goat 310 - 20th St. E. Saskatoon is thenewest and most exclusive club for theyoung Saskatonian. Many of the top Cana-dian groups will look after the entertain-ment Monday through Saturday from 8:30PM to 1:00 AM. James and The Bonds-men, The Chessmen, Wee Willie and TheWalkers, Mary and The Sensations andL'il Davey and The Drastiks are skeddedfor appearances. /// Eaton's of Canadathrew a humdinger of a fashion party atthe Capitol Theatre in Halifax recently.Ray MacLeod, shobiz reporter for theChronicle, notes that the Axemen sup-plied the musical entertainment with 8Go Go gals. Carol Goss of "After Four"fame added the professional side ofbeauty to the affair and was ably assistedby Frank Cameron, Mike McNeil, BobOxley and Dave Timms of CHNS. Eighteengal teen models of Seventeen BeautyWorkshop and two male models gave theinterested audience an insight into thenewest in styles. The audience was alsotreated to a showing of "It's WonderfulTo Be Young" starring Cliff Richard. ///Terry De Mers of North Battleford hasthreatened to eat his bell - bottoms ifJames and the Bondsmen don't hit thetop. He's safe as far as the Battlefordsare concerned. The boys played to a

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Regina's 4th Dimen-sion Coffee House during their two-weekstint. Says Terry "Really looking forwardto their first release", which I understandwill be on Columbia. /// One of UpperCanada's hottest new talents is Jeff Hewit-son who now teams up with The FabulousFugitives. They're managed by Frederic T.Munro Productions in Peterborough andbooked by Bigland. They appear next in

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The end of winter was done up in great style recently when CHAB'sA&W "Snow Surfathon" drew an extra large crowd to Moosejaw's 1stWinter Carnival. The gang from 'AB including Dick Bourne, Ted Kelly,Wally Macht, Brian Johnson, Fergi Oliver and Ted Hockaday were allpulled on toboggans behind sno-scooters and ended up with lots oflaughs and bumps. /// CKLG's Theatre Party and Cooking Schoolbrought over 2000 listeners to the Orpheum Theatre for a demon-stration of natural gas cooking using Tappan -Gurney Appliances. PeggyKeenan PR at CKLG notes that Roy Hennessey and Paul Arthur, CKLGpersonalities, assisted (and sometimes hampered) the efforts of HomeEconomist Lil Radman during her cook -in. Eaton's enhanced the pro-ceedings by supplying a mink stole as a door prize which was won byMrs. M. Davies of North Vancouver. /// Ron Waddell's CKDM "Dedica-tion Club" has now passed the 3500 membership mark. Ron is nowarranging for a Dedication Club Mug Shot Scrap Book. /// Paul Ski sends

news that CHLO is now the only Top 40 station in the area since their recent change-over. On -air staff is comprised of John Coppes-morning man, Arlene Dee-late AMand early PM, Paul Ski-Late PM, and Rick Smith on nights. /// CJSS is taking an earlyspring into new programming with Bill Gallant jumping back into action on the "YawnPatrol" (morning) with Bill Osborne following with his mid -morning gathering. The newlook is from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM when "Country Gentleman" Keith Clingen takes overfor a full five -hour combination of the latest Pop and Country music with a full hour ofcountry at 4:00 PM. Tom Iley takes the listeners to Midnite with his "Night Train" show./// The Guess Who recently played to a capacity crowd at the Lakehead ExhibitionAuditorium when CJLX presented their "Spectacular". /// Jim Blake sends news of anextra push for Canadian talent at CHIC Brampton. Don Gauthier on Open Lines in themorning and afternoon has been interviewing many of the new Canadian artists and hasbeen receiving good listener reaction. Any Canadian talent that can make it for this talkshow should give Jim a call or drop him a line. Ken Clarks formerly with C -FUN Van-couver is the new morning news man with Danny Roman taking over the afternoon showfrom 4 to 8 PM. /// The entire announce staff of CJME rushed en masse (or was it mess?)to the winner of their "Queen For A Day" contest, Mrs. Ruth Coutts. "D" Charles washeddishes, John Henderson and Johnny Onn changed diapers. Mel Faris, the all-night man,fell asleep and Terry "0" vacuumed and served the meal. Big Canadian news in theQueen City is the excellent reaction on the Big Town Boys, Barry Allen and Wes Dakussingles and LPs. Wes and his Rebels recently played to a capacity crowd in Regina. Weshas added a new lead guitarist, former member of the Champs, Morris Marshall. ///Newest from the Maritimes is the CJCB "Fab 40" chart. The chart isn't new but theattitude is. Dave Crichton is giving that extra nudge to the best in Canadian productionsbut still maintaining the policy of "Not because it's Canadian but because it's good". ///The "Frisky 20" from CJCJ in Woodstock is another of the Maritime stations givingCanadian talent a chance to compete with foreign product. /// Johnny Murphy of CKPRin the Lakehead is off to Chicago for the N.A.B. Convention March 28-30 and will alsobe able to take in the Gavin Programming Conference on the 26-27, same city. Johnnywill be spreading the word about Canadian productions. /// Brian Barker who handlesthe "AM Meyhem" (morning) show at CFJR in Brockville has been giving good exposureto the newest in MOR sounds out of Canada. Brian also looks after the afternoon "UpTemp Swingout" which he's been doing for nearly 2 years, and finds that his teenlisteners have been showing a lot of interest in Canadian discs. The Staccatos' "LongWay Home" has been getting good reaction as have The Counts with their "He WillBreak Your Heart", Big Town Boys "Hey Girl Go It Alone" and "Laugh Too Much" byLittle Caesar and The Consuls. ///

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PROFILE OF A YOUNGCANADIAN ARRANGERAs a recent record session ended, thestaid gentlemen of the string sectiongathered around the arranger who sat atthe piano and improvised modern jazz,and blues. These professional gentlemenwho usually play with the Toronto Sym-phony were entirely captivated by themusical genius who had written the stringarrangements for the session they hadjust completed. They were now furtherfascinated by his ability as a pianist.They marvelled at his technique, and histalent. What impressed them most washis age. Doug Riley is twenty years old.He is presently a student at the Univer-sity of Toronto Faculty of Music. One ofCanada's top arrangers once said ofRiley, "He can write in twelfths, but heplays rock and blues." Canada's top pro-ducers like to work with this amazingand youthful talent. He has earned therespect and admiration of record com-panies, ad agencies, musicians, and evenhis fellow arrangers. At 20, this alreadyis quite an indication of the future instore for Doug.

At five, Doug started piano lessons atthe Toronto Conservatory. His second in-strument was organ. There were manyother instruments added to this list as theyears went by. At nine he composed hisfirst classical work. During High Schoolhe studied under Paul De Marky who hadtaught Oscar Peterson. At 15 he began toplay with a group at Toronto's Burn-hamthorpe Collegiate. Four years ago hejoined The Silhouettes who are about torelease their first single featuring JackHarden. Doug arranged this session aswell as a number of other sessions cur-rently on the market. The recently re-

leased Joey Hollingsworth session wasarranged by him as well as the soon to

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Doug writes and arranges for ad agen-cies as well, and last year arranged "BabyRuth" by the Butterfingers which wentbeyond being a commercial and becamea hit parade item. This tune was co -

written by Doug and was recorded inthe US by The Arrows for Tower Records.

The Esso "Tiger In Your Tank" single wasarranged by Doug and he is presentlyarranging a big band session for the cur-rent 7 Up commercial. The Robbie LaneCoke commercial was arranged by Doug.

In 1967 when he graduates from theFaculty Of Music, he would like to headin the same direction as Tony Hatch, BurtBacharach and Canada's own Ben McPeekand write and arrange popular music andcommercials.

At 20, Doug is already a success anda year from now will probably bring a

great deal of credit to himself and Can-ada. He wants to stay in Canada andbecome part of the scene that is begin-ning to happen here.

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My Vancouver column is still pending (I think) but old Ed: stands firmand will not reprint it. His contention is that B.C. might secede fromconfederation, and this just isn't the time for that (since next year isour centennial year). The Reb is still on the rampage and has exposedme as being a MAN??? (Maybe he can't tell the difference!!!) Anyonewho. would take on Brian Skinner and CHUM ! Reb istaking on a station that by its own admission has more power to makehits than any other station in Canada (Ed: What's that got to do withitm) I am not willing to admit that I don't read his column each week.I would also like to say that I would never miss one issue of After Four.I also think every DJ in Canada should read After Four.

HE BRINGS HIS LUNCH. Recently a top Canadian singer inferredthat a top Canadian PD with a top Toronto station wraps his lunch inRPM. I always assumed that he ate out!!! The Sparrow are about to

record in New York. Where was the latest session by J.B. and the Playboys recorded.Where . . . meaning in what studio, and in what country. We just want to know. I havebeen asked what I think of the latest gimmick record released about a hockey player.The Bobby Hull single by Billy Van isn't as good as the Shack record. It sounds 1920ish(BC that is!!!) in my opinion. No one has a single out about the Mundinger case. I askedone record company why. They say they have no experience in that area.

I REFUSE to enter the controversy about the Green Beret song. I will not make anycomment on the current criticism that it hasn't anything to do with Canada. I have notime to even bother to make a statement. I will keep my nose clean except to say thatI WOULDN'T program it in Canada if I were a PD. Other than that I have nothing to say.I am not a pacifist (as you can see by my column.)

Already my comments about a lack of good commercial GMP recording has gottento a few people and don't be surprised to see a few LPs coming out that are not hitparade. I am talking about records that will be sold in record stores . . . . not libraryrecords for programming only.

It is not true that I was asked to write for a Toronto newspaper. I am NOT READYfor the big time, and cannot stand the pressures. The money looks interesting. I maysay yes ... if I am coaxed!!!

Groups that aren't mentioned in my column have but to drop me a line, and I

promise to mention your current record releases. I must say that some groups send metoo much and I couldn't possibly use all this material. Other groups send me nothing,and then the outcry "Ellie Capreese is UNFAIR". I love to hear from you.

IF MY COLUMN IS SHORT THIS WEEK (And I think it will be) it is because I havewritten quite a controversial column this week. I usually submit a column of two-thirdsof a page, so you see how much is edited out. Just think of what you are missing!!!

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