European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1978 modern the stars and stripes Page 19 Singer John offers a comment to voice coach Dick Emmons and student Kay one of 100 pop singing hopefuls attending his Camp this John Davidsons tangle Woolf Tor pop singers by Yardena Arar associated press coking tanned and fit in a jogging John Davidson scurries across the porch of a Spanish style building casting mad Hatter glances at his Ive got three people Ive got to see before barely breaking stride As Hes joined by two Visi Why dont you just follow me k its and the Singer entertainer is making his Vej no Ming rounds at toe John Davidson singers summer Gamp what he describes As pop singing answer to Anglewood and other summer programs for classical the singers nestled in a Cove on Santa n Island some 20 Miles off the Southern California i leased from a private it offers considerable natural if not mountains rising sharply on one Side and the Ocean crashing but Davidson pays scant attention to his in a for Good with commitments in vegas and Lake he can attend Only the first vat of each of the two four week and there Are at each session to hear and each student has his own practice room and vocal at this particular Only women Are practice each crooning her Way through the two songs Shes preparing for a weekend Davidson listens then interrupts with encouragement and some hardheaded advice and youve got to Belt this one he tells Kay Bess of Santa Barbara As she finishes join the upbeat open ing number from the Broadway musical that is belting for me wails the brow haired 111 she later explains that her previous experience has been confined to singing at weddings officiated by her a youre missing the Point of the he tells Barbara Alexander of Houston after she sings a Bee gees hit from the film saturday night now its just the 26yearold accountant also gets bad Marks for her straight red hair and the seen nuns look More Davidson youve got a phenomenal body and a pretty Birt the hair int doing anything for he also advises her to Wear her Contact he tells another girl to sing a song in a higher key which will better show off her and yet another to perform wearing a Blouse tied above her Waist be cause its very some of the advice May sound but in the show context its All and Davidson takes his role of Mentor Between students and practice Davidson talks about the Camp and Why Hes its a dream that Ive had for five or six he i enjoy working with other singers on but no one has the time or interest to Rick around ideas with other in you begin thinking in your 10s that you want to contribute something i know it sounds but that Davidson recruited students by announcing the Camp last fall on to talk applicants were required to fill out a submit a tap of their a photograph and a certificate of health from their some 500 persons including two grandmothers a the 100 students accepted Are from All Over the United states and Canada and Range in age from it to 32 if a Guy Hast started a singing career before Hes Hes in Davidson says and for a its campers get room and an hour of private vocal coaching a lessons in stage presence and sight Reading of voice they hear guest lectures from such seasoned artists As Andy Kenny Jack Jones and de on saturdays and they go into the is lands Only where they perform in one of five shows for the estimated weekend by the end of their each camper has put to Gether a 45mlnute nightclub composed original songs and assembled an albums Worth of tapes from the weekend the four week session costs yet Davidson says his biggest mistake was under charging right now were in the he that will come out of my next year it will probably Cost and Well barely break but the campers think the experience is Worth any id have paid for this if id have had says John Smith of like most other Smith a 24yearold real estate Salesman who had been performing a Little on the Side praises Davidson Camp it has been More than i be we could not buy were getting years of their experience in a once the singers leave there on their own to make their Way in the show business keeps on the its a Horren Dous amount of he but its a lot More fun than i Buck Rogers lives again by Vernon Scott United press International spaceman Buck born in the comic strip in 1929 and Laid to rest in will be resurrected this fall in a three part television Minise Rogers became an american a in 450 As a 25thcentury crusader for peace and he zoomed around with k flying apparatus zapping Draco mans and Max baddies a former Cowboy who was blasted centuries raid of his time during some became a me heroin played by Buster had already established himself As Torran and a dozen movie episodes of Buck Roaeric were made w period of 24 weeks for a paltry at Raver studios in the Aew television Man laertes is also being shot it a Venai but woufcta1 cover the Esetok each of uie three Twe boor segments jul my More than the studio spent Seta joining Buck in his new adventures will be the same characters of his comic strip Days Wilma Deer Jan Maury scientist and space Pilot Lus and philosopher and Bucks sidekick newcomer Gil an arkansans and former Indus trial Star As is Well setup physically but not a America he has a Square steady eyes and the look of a mans i have a copy of the Call Sheet for that movie serial which was shot right Here on this Hollywood Gerard it lists the stars As Larry Crabbe and Constance i saw the original serial in one of its Many rerelease when i was a kid in Little admission was 10 i Haven seen the old shows even though its show ing on a los Angeles its a funny but i did a to shirt commercial was following Buster Gerard is a serious actor with impressive stage cred a couple of movies under his Bell Airport 77 and Man on a he has appeared in episodic to and starred in the to killing he twice turned Down the Buck Rogen i role be cause he didst want to become a poo idol for a or two then but us agent in a Ustav read the scripted remd liked what he the show is fantasy treated he said awol atthe suspension of disbelief just As an Sci ence Ficon film does even though its All imagined in we treat it As if its really is not a cartoon the producers have approached the project with the same attitude that pro ntoer8ble and he has a sense of s nothing bionic about he has no Spe heroics Are he resolves his were not using the so problems we re Noi using us 10 so we wont be Able to count on kids to remember Buck from the funny wed have to create our own audience among younger older folks will be Well act Tantod with Bock from the comics and from the movie serial i think we will attract both adults and Chil that Whit were aiming theres no question in Gerards mind that the stunning Success of Star wars which has brought in More than million at the Box office encouraged Abc to go ahead with Buck Star wars convinced All the networks that this sort of entertainment would go he someone had to break the then along came Clou encounters to prove that Star wars want a theres a big audience out there for Good science but theres also a definite Market for a Good West pm right now Gerard is a thoughtful Man who had the courage to quit a successful career and a Well paying Job nine years ago to move to new York and become a starving he was an Industrial chemist whose work took him through Missouri and he was an adviser to the late Winthrop he was successful and i attained everything i thought i he i had an a Money and a cer Tain amount of Power and but it want something was i  see making Money and playing Golf the rest of my id enjoyed acting when i attended Arkanas state teachers College and decided to give it a so i just dropped everything to move to new i drove a cab at night and took acting lessons during the i seemed to be always but i never regretted my decision for a now in doing what i if the miniseries is a Buck Roaeric will became a weekly Well see How it works