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Wednesday, September 8, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Singers Ike and Tina Turner ... Road to success was rocky ...
Turners, Frye Had Long Climb
KU audiences will be treated to one of the most visually exciting musical groups in the nation and the world, talked-at-conedians Friday night in Allen Field House. The Ike & Tina Turner Revue and David Frye will then be presented at SFMTA's first major concert of the season.
IKE AND TINA TURNER spent more than 15 years playing small clubs along the Chitterling River, where the bulk of raw, primitive soul music was discovered by an audience large enough to attend. In 1970 it was a good year for composer-arranger-leader-producer and his wife, and lead singer, Jeffrey James. In 1972 Francisco's Basin Street West and Las Vegas' International Hotel, plus national exposure on radio and television, Sullivan, Andy Williams and Name of the Game helped create the Turner version of blues and soul.
But it was a long, hard road for Ike and Tina. When Ike was six years old he began making music from homeetown of Clarkdale, Miss.
Tina was born in Brownsville, Tenn. She grew up in a large family in Knoxville on a steady diet of gospel choir singing and
He taught himself to play the piano. As soon as he finished high school, he put together a group called "Kings of Rhythm." The group had only moderate success and had little idea of the future Tina Turner) joined.
talent shows. In the mid-1950s, she moved to St. Louis with one of her sisters. There she met like and eventually married him.
"Fool in Love" sold a million copies.
During the 1960s Ike and Tina Turner slowly but steadily rose in popularity. Their songs "River Song," "Honky Tonk Woman" along with their albums "Come Together," and "Workin' at the Band" work their musical excellence while climbing high on national charts.
David Frve
In 1959, Ike wrote a song called "Fool in Love" for a singer who neither bothered to show up for the recording session. Tina knew the band before she was a singer since the studio facilities had been paid for in advance.
"Rolling Stone" reviews editor Jon Landau recently wrote, "he Ike Turner has been an important figure in rhythm and blues for the last 20 years. He and Tina are still married and it is not too soon, if you ask me."
THE NAME DAVID FRYE is virtually synonymous with a performer who has made his presence today. Not only is he in demand on the nightclub and college circuit, but he has also appeared in numerous television shows. Furthermore, his fame has increased with the success of his recent album "I Am the Creator."
Rockfest Ban Urged After Holiday Brawl
WATSON VILLE, CAHF. (AP) — Rock festivals that lure thousands of fans to small towns are the result of Tuesday after a Labor Day rock festival ended in violence, with one motorcyclist dead and 10 others injured.
"The thing I admire about politicians," says Frye, "is their magnificent ability to be asked questions on TV before millions of viewers and then to so obey them. So when you don't really dart his eyes about, but I do it to show the way his mind is working."
Abut 3,000 youths had listened in day Monday to music in an apple orchard just outside this city, covering 15 miles south of San Francisco
Dale Kring
At dusk, some 19 motorcyclists and 250 youths began fighting with knives, wooden boards, chains and bottles, deputies said.
Cyclist Peter Montera, 26, of Beach Beach, Calif., died of a stroke said nine other cyclists had been injured and a woman had been hit.
Frye's effectiveness is mainly the result of his uncanny ability to recognize important characters. When he portrays Nixon, Humphrey, Johnson, David Suskind, William P. Buckley Jr., and others, he seems to be impressed with all remarks of David Frye behind. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Frye decided at any early age that he wanted to learn how to saw his father's footsteps as a businessman. In high school he mimicked traditional stars like James Cagney and Honey Gould. Edward Robinson. After college and a stint in the army, Frye landed a job as a salesman for the Anchor Manhattan, which happened to be owned by his father. He was a wife and proper salesman, but every time he answered the phone, Humphrey Bogart. The customers were thrown off work and Frye was thrown out of work. Humphrey auditioned his act for nightclub managers. Nobody was interested until he added Bobby the politician to his reporter's show-business imitations.
"I think if we banned this type of activity this young man could have died a natural death," said County Sheriff Douglas James.
Today, though riding on a high tide of success, Frye must keep in shape by spending two hours a week at the hospital for torturing his face and voice. His diligence and natural abilities have paid off. He has almost forgotten the personalities of the men he himes in the public's mind.
Lou Parsons
Parsons Kring FLOOR COVERING
He urged the county board of Supervisors to tighten the ordinance that now allows
Remnants, roll ends, shag and carpet samples in various colors and sizes.
1035 Mass.
CARPETS
audiences of 5,000 at outdoor
events. It was the longest list of strict new rules, it said, and only several hundred should be allowed as a maximum ummum.
Detectives still were trying to figure out who started the brawl and why. There were no immediate arrests, said one officer; instead there were no officers at the scene when the fight broke out.
Witnesses told deputies that about 30 cyclists drove up around 7 p.m. and refused to mingle in the park, listening to various rock groups.
Police said the riders had parked their bikes and had refused to let anyone near them. Mr. Dillon shouted, "Let's get the riders!"
The cyclists formed a circle, swung chains and boards, and the furbit was on witnesses said.
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Sen-
Edmund S. Muskie said Tuesday
that "like everyone else" he
doesn't like busing children to
integrate public schools, but it
will be accepted for the time use.
Muskie Accepts Busing
About 70 deputies, police and highway patrolmen arrived. Uses of the motorcycle band from the youths and looks some 158 persons in for
The Maine senator, camp- camping unofficially or the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, said "it's the law of
the land and we must accept it." He accused President Nixon of disruptions integration plans with the administration to maintain federal support for buring.
Muskie said, "Busing is an answerable question. An answer that is being used and it must be used to make a beginning on this ground."
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