William Fleming High School - Colonel Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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Orang-u-tango music blasts across the Roanoke Civic Center as Tony Orlando delivers a lively Sweet Gypsy Rose, The trio performed ragtime music along with a string of their hits to a sell-out crowd 22 Best Sellers How about 'cha? asks C.B. fan Mark Cheat- wood on his four-wheeIer lcarl Citizen's Band radio, Air wave socializing increased as more and more truck, car, and van drivers picked up their C.B.'s for a radio check. its-W 1 :ff if it.i ' t x i Q y x f l x l A .1 me Fw ukxcssmgy s if 55 if t -- .S X Ek. A , ,Aer Standing room only finds lead singer Patrick Cuckoo's Nest fans fill the Cinema theaters as Simmons of the Doobie Brothers performing Long movie-goers Julie Waldron and Mark Hayslett take Train Running at their sold-out concert in the inarecord-breaking movie. Roanoke Civic Center.

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QXNC Tiff 659 P '76 CONT. Cuckoo's Nest, Tony Orlando, and C.B.'s crop up as crowd-pleasers. ft to ' Q , X ,f Ti H156 Q Fireworks companies weren't the only ones with cause to celebrate as the Bi- centennial rolled around. Lines formed in record numbers to sample the latest in movies, buy the best in books, and listen to the hottest in current sounds. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept the Academy Awards 'and vied with Jaws for crowds at Roanoke's seven new movie theaters. The Robert Redford- Dustin Hoffman version of All the Presi- dent's Men proved to be a ticket-office pleaser in spite of a Watergate-weary world. lf these big three proved ticket office pleasers, concerts at the Civic Center often left those behind the ticket window singing Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is as they downed Alka Seltzer. On the fifth anniversary of the Roanoke Civic Center, Tony Orlando and Dawn broke all previous attendance records as they played over two hours to a capacity crowd. The Doobie Brothers added an extra dimension to Homecoming Week- end, and the Commodores, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, and Marshall Tucker kept audiences clapping throughoiit the year, ln the lingo of '76, a concert or a book or a person or an idea could be solid or bad, and that was good. The words l'fire down meant really let them have it as in she really fired down on him when he didn't have his homework. And C.B, radios initiated a lingo all their own as 1O-4, handles, and put the pedal to the metal became everyday terms. In a way, it could be said that America showed up at its two-hundredth birthday with thick, square pizzas instead of thin. round ones: with new uses for old painter's pants: and spirited renditions of solid songs. Like the books all say, America is about freedom, and for its Bicentennial, the spirit was distinctively free, distinctively '76, Shark mania surfaces not only at the beach, but in fashion as well, Sporting a Jaws T-shirt, David Craft talks with a friend. Best Sellers 23