Week of June 8, 1971

In New York City - the municipal employees’ strike that caused massive traffic

snarls, escalates by walkout of sewage plant workers that led to the dumping of

New York’s daily rate of 1.5 billion gallons of untreated sewage into the city’s

waterways. Drawbridges were left open and trucks deliberately stalled just before

a morning rush hour, with the result that hundreds of thousands of motorists en

route to Manhattan were unable to movie on highways. The tie-up of 28 bridges

led to threats by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay to call out the

National Guard.

The Senate passes legislation ordering the secretary of defense to establish a

program to identify heroin users in the military and to require all services to grant

amnesty to those who turn themselves in for treatment. Under the legislation, a

serviceman could not be released from active duty until a competent medical

authority had certified that he was rehabilitated, had failed to respond to

adequate treatment or had refused to accept treatment and rehabilitation.

hijacked one of its jetliners at Chicago’s

O’Hare International Airport, was shot

and taken into custody after the plane

landed at Kennedy Airport.

Crewmembers were reportedly

unharmed.

Marry - Patricia Nixon and Edward Finch

Cox are married in the White House Rose Garden.

Federal officials convert Alcatraz

Island into a modified fortress to

discourage any attempt by Indians to

reoccupy the abandoned prison facility.

20 armed deputy marshals landed on

the island form a Coast Guard cutter

last Friday and ended nearly 19 months of occupation by Indians, some of the

remaining 15 occupiers angrily warned they would regroup and come back.

Best sellers -

QB VII - Leon Uris

The New Centurions - Joseph Wambaugh

The Passions of the Mind - Irving Stone

The Throne of Saturn - Allen Drury

Week of June 8, 1971

Being There - Jerzy Kosinksi

The Exoricist - William Blatty

The Underground Man - Ross Macdonald

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

Future Shock - Alvin Toffler

The Greening of America - Charles A. Reich

The Grandees - Stephen Birmingham

The Sensuous Man - “M”

The Boss - Mike Royko

The Female Eunuch - Germain Greer

Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45 - Barbara W. Tuchman

actress - “People are always trying to analyze our

relationship ... talking about a father figure and all that. They

don’t seem to believe in love any more.”

Passing - actor Michael Rennie (62) -

British-born actor and star of the Third

Man television series and a veteran of

more than 100 motion pictures. Mr.

Rennie, an American citizen since 1960, died while visiting

his mother in England. Cause of death has not been

disclosed.

Sports - Clete Boyer - former third baseman for the Atlanta

Braves is slapped with a $1,000 fine by baseball

commissioner Bowie Kuhn for betting on college and pro

football games in 1968 and 1969.

Some music notes - At the Troubadour in Hollywood - Cat

Stevens. Also at the Troubadour - Kris Kristofferson. On Bob Dylan’s new single

“Watching the River Flow” - you can hear Leon Russell on piano. Columbia

Records signs “New Riders of the Purple Sage.”

Grand Funk Railroad’s July 9 concert at New York City’s 55,000-seat Shea

Stadium is already declared a sell-out. Though an official gross figure is not

available, Grand Funk manager Terry Knight had predicted a $306,000 gate.

Grand Funk is the only rock group other than the Beatles, to play Shea Stadium

(so far).

Week of June 8, 1971

of Columbia Records, says rock n’ roll is not

losing its vitality as some are saying. In a

statement circulated through the record industry

trades, Davis predicts a continuing emergence of

bright new rock talent and says the shape of pop

music may be changing, but it is not dying. Davis

says those record companies and others who

tied themselves solely to the “group movement”

in rock were unrealistic “In the last three years

as the group syndrome developed and grew, the

individual became submerged. Now, he or she is

emerging again and it’s good for music and for

its vast public. What is happening right now also is the emergence of the song, of

the beautiful material that is the essence of music. New performers like James

Taylor, Carole King, Laura Nyro and Elton John are speaking out and they

undoubtedly will join Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and McCartney-Lennon as the poet

laureates of our times.” No doubt says Davis, competition among rock artists is

getting tougher: “This month’s newest guitarist is not flashing his way straight to

the top in four quick weeks but that’s only because our great artists are showing

tremendous durability are staying right at the top. New openings have to be

readily deserved. The only way for new artists to emerge with the same

frequency that occurred since Monterey, would be for the artists who came to the

fore in ‘68, ‘69 or ‘70 to just a s rapidly fall by the wayside. This has not

happened. Chicago, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, Three Dog Night. Blood,

Sweat & Tears, Santana are all still vital, alive and performing brilliantly. What’s

more, the individual Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Jefferson Airplane and the

Byrds have all stayed at the top making it even more difficult for the new artist to

prove his special skills. But still they came. Johnny Winter and Edgar Winter, Cat

Stevens Mandrill, Leon Russell, Boz Scaggs and many more.”

Actress-singer Barbra Streisand asks the New York Supreme Court to dismiss a

2-year-old $1.15 million breach of contract suit, filed against her by her one-time

manager Martin Bergman. He claims she made an oral agreement with him in

February of 1963 to pay him 5% of her professional income and income from the

three corporations she controlled.

Elvis Presley is signed by the Sahara-Tahoe Hotel in Lake Tahoe to make his

first nightclub appearance outside Las Vegas.

Week of June 8, 1971

Promoter Richard Nader and his Rock ‘N Roll show are more popular than ever.

His latest edition includes Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Duane Eddy, Bo

Diddley, the Shirelles, the Drifters, the Five Satins, Gary (U.S.) Bonds and

Freddy Cannon. Nader, a little-known disc jockey, began the shows in 1969,

when he felt audiences were ripe to see the early acts of the genre.

Las Vegas. Other recent Riviera signings include Don

Rickles, the 5th Dimension and David Frost.

Television news -

Production is underway of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery

which becomes a regular weekly series on NBC this fall.

Cast of the initial hour includes Elsa Lanchester, Bob

Crane, Jo Anne Worley, Bock Peters, Cameron Mitchell, Patrick Macnee, Denise

Nichols ...

McMillan and Wife s segments of the 90-minute “Mystery

Movie” series which debuts in the fall on NBC... Dionne

Warwick and the Carpenters are headed for Toronto to tape

the 5th Dimension’s “Traveling Sunshine Show” special set

to air in August on ABC.

TV ratings -

Mannix - 21.9

Marcus Welby - 20.8

Harlem Globetrotters - 20.7

Adam-12 - 20.5

ABC Monday Movie - “Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed?” - 20.4

Hawaii Five-O - 19.6

All in the Family - 19.4

Bold Ones - 19.0

Ironside - 18.9

Medical Center - 18.7

Odd Couple - 18.7

Week of June 8, 1971

Sunday Night Television -

Smithsonian Adventure

NBC - Special-Wildlife, Red Skelton Show, Bonanza,

Bold Ones

ABC - The FBI, Movie

Educational Television - William F. Buckely,

Vanishing Wilderness, Jean Shepherd’s America,

Hogan’s Heroes - Schultz has a fight with his wife

and ruins a Hogan-scheme to use him as a courier

to an Allied agent.

William F. Buckley - “Separation of Church and State” is the topic for outspoken

atheist Mrs Madelyn-Murray O’Hair

Movie - CBS premiers a series of Sunday night movies (filling time slots of Ed

Sullivan and Glen Campbell). First one tonight is “Cutter’s Trail” (1970) John

Gavin, Marisa Pavan, Manual Padilla Jr., Joseph Cotten, Nehemiah Persoff,

Victor French, Beverly Garland.

Masterpiece Theater - four--part presentation of Honore de Balzac’s “Pere

Goriot,” a story of father’s self-destructive love for his ungrateful daughters.

Pop music this week in 1971

BROWN SUGAR - Rolling Stones

IT DON’T COME EASY - Ringo Starr

RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - Carpenters

I’LL MEET YOU HALFWAY - Partridge Family

IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King

SWEET AND INNOCENT - Donny Osmond

SUPERSTAR - Murray Head with Trinidad

Singers

JOY TO THE WORLD - Three Dog Night

TREAT HER LIKE A LADY - Cornelius

Brothers & Sister Rose

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - Aretha Franklin

NATHAN JONES - Supremes

DOUBLE LOVIN’ - Osmonds

Week of June 8, 1971

DON’T KNOCK MY LOVE (pt. 1) - Wilson Pickett

NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - Jackson 5

CHICK-A-BOOM (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It) - Daddy Dewdrop

INDIAN RESERVATION (The Lament Of The Cherokee) - Raiders

I DON’T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM - Helen

Reddy

SHE’S NOT JUST ANOTHER WOMAN - 8th

Day

PUPPET MAN - Tom Jones

COOL AID - Paul Humphrey & Cool Aid

Chemists

CRY BABY - Janis Joplin

LIGHT SINGS - 5th Dimension

LOWDOWN - Chicago

RIGHT ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE -

Brenda & Tabulations

FUNKY NASSAU (pt. 1) - Beginning Of The End

ME AND MY ARROW - Nilsson

I DON’T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM - Yvonne Elliman

REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE - Diana

Ross

PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND -

Ocean

THE DRUM - Bobby Sherman

LOVE HER MADLY - Doors

NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - Isaac

Hayes

THAT’S THE WAY I’VE ALWAYS

HEARD IT SHOULD BE - Carly Simon

HIGH TIME WE WENT - Joe Cocker

YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND - James Taylor

OOH POO PAH DOO - Ike & Tina Turner

LIFE - Elvis Presley

Top Country Single -

You’re My Man - Lynn Anderson

Top Albums -

Jesus Christ Superstar - soundtrack

Week of June 8, 1971

4 Way Street - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Survival - Grand Funk Railroad

Mud Slide Slim and

the Blue Horizon -

James Taylor

Tapestry - Carole King

Ram - Paul & Linda

McCartney

Up to Date - The

Partridge Family

Golden Bisquits -

Three Dog Night

More Albums -

Every Picture Tells A

Story - Rod Stewart

Tea For The Tillerman

- Cat Stevens

L.A. Women - Doors

Stoney End - Barbra

Steisand

Tumbleweed -

Connection -

11-17-70 - Elton John

At the movies -

Whitmore, Son Yawmuira

Who is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About

Week of June 8, 1971

Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Eric Braeden, William Windom, Sal Mineo, Ricardo

Montalban

William Holden, Ryan O’Neal, Karl Malden

Summer of ‘42 -