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Baker has
received numerous music

awards, sold’ more than —

.375,000 singles and 150,000
albums. She also has been
without a recording con-

tract for the last five.

’ ‘months. Her current single, |

' Hollywood Love album, ..

The Second Time Around, ‘

was “taken from her

released three years ago on

RCA, i
. She-lett that. company in
_Apeil 1881, to sign ‘with an -

Amertpan..., Tabet that
promised to’ ‘do everything
in its?power:. to: break her

‘into the’-U,S. market. Its

power, however, petered
out when the label's parent
company.
operations because of the.
economic squeeze,

Baker has been looking
for a new record deal since’
January, but hasn't found
‘one that’s satisfactory.

: “Tm not going to.fump at
just any offer,” she. says,

curtailed .

“If I don't get what I want,

then I'll start my own label
and I'll spend the money .

needed for promotion,
which is essential to have
hit records.”

' discouraged at trying to
land an American record

deal that she almost gave up
entertaining to be a full-

time wife and mother. But

her current situation: has

given. her.a new challenge.
a .

In the fall of 1980, ‘the’
country singer was 50.

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maybe things were going
too well for me,” she says,
“because I've had a com-
plete turnaround in attitude.
I'm more gung-he about my
career now than I’ve ever
been." a ot .

The 33-year-old native of
Port Medway, N.S., feels
that her ‘current
songwriting is better than
ever. “It's more in the pop
veln, really polished, with
more of an edge; I'm ready
for.a change, and 1 feel I'd

be restricting myself if 1 -

didn't try a new direction.”’:

. She and her band, Baker
Street, are currently on a”
cross-Canada tour that ends.
in the Maritimes July 24: |

She flies to Vancouver. in
‘August te co-star with The
Rovers in a CBC-TV
- Superspecial to be shown in
October.

Whiskey |

«Jack, the

-bluegrass group that picks

weekly on the Tommy

Hunter: Show, has added ‘a —

new dimension to its per-
sonal appearances. © At

festivals across Canada this -
summer, the. four-piece |
band will perform songs and.

stories written especially

for children. Leader John —
“Hoffman says he spent
seven years singing with

kids at summer camps, “so
it seems pretty natural for
the band to move into this
. Recording artist
Ronnie Prophet believes

that if at first you don't.
succeed, go to the West |
Coast and. try again...
~.Prophet was unsuccessful
at operating the Fort Scenic —

club in Halifax and, having

dropped that.venture,. he’s: |
‘taken over. Winniger’s Post’
‘House, jn Kelowna, 5,C..
He's renamed it Ronnie.‘
Prophet's Ranch. House,

featuring smorgasbord and

entertainment six nights a:

week.
- Perhaps the real reason

Barbara Mandrell dropped.
her weekly. television show oo
is that her booking agency ©

_ estimates she can- make $1
million a month from

country charts... .. Twenty-

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Crosby Murders

_ LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)
— Norm Crosby, the man
who murders metaphors for
a meal ticket, says Las
Vegas could benefit from an
old axiom — if it -works,
don't fix it.

Having started in the
city's lounges. in 1964, ~
Crosby has watched ‘Las
Vegas grow while he evolv
one of its ‘Premier en: ~
tertainers.

But now, he saya, cor-
porate chiefs. with com-
minds are

“When I started playing
_ Vegas it was a lot more fun,
less ‘regimented. I don’t

understand these people —
who came in and thought ~

-they could make’ the elty

- better. It was. _already a-

winner, They came in with
their. computers | and

.compitrollers and said this’

lounge is X number of ‘feet:
and it's never gonna make
this amount. of. money; so

- ‘take it out.and put in a Keno

parlor.” .
Crosby, says the lounges
and other things that have .
been ellminated: made the

clty what it is and served. a.

purpose. -
“They were not Rhodes:
scholars, these people who

By The Sea

- had left, he

founded this town, but they
were brilliant,’ Crosby.
saya, ‘They knew
everything to do and. they
did it.”

“The. secret was. to dive
the customer as much as_

you could'as cheaply as you

could because whatever he
spent in the
casinos. Today, the cor-

Poratlons figure if a steak -
“Sandwich costs §7, they'll

charge $15. In the.old town,
if it cost §7, they'd st settle for
$5. iT) .

The builders of Las Vegas

hada reason for the bargain

prices, he Bays.

V

ca

“They weren t crazy. Nor

were they philanthropists.

They knew if they gave you
the best of everything, you'd
be back. - You: could: lose
“$100,000 and couldn't wait to

get back. Nowadays, a ‘guy. a

. who ‘comes here and loses
$100,000 goes bananas when

he has to pay 75 cents fora

‘Coke. That's. what's driving
them away." :
stars

Crosby says .

demanding

hotels to ‘production shows,

eroding what ‘was once a

prime ‘job market for en-
tertainers.’ mos

When stars .
drawing as much as $350,000
a week, the $2-million cost

to stage a-production show. .

six-figure -
-weekly salaries have driven. —:

- began :

no longer seemed: out of. -

sight for hotel management.

Crosby, who used to work
the town.24 weeks-a year
and now does eight to £0
weeks, says he can weather

‘the storm because of his |

‘lucrative beer commercials. .

country.

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