The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 1975 Page: 3 of 6
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Wednesday, December 3,1975
THE NORTH TEXAS DAILY—PAGE 3
Songwriter Pens
Gets Pay in rBad
By SANDY HALL
Special Writer
At age 19, Chuck Rhodes, Corpus
Christi sophomore, faces a promising
career in the music profession. He has
written almost a dozen songs—one of
which reached the national charts—
and has played with a television
network studio orchestra. The only
thing missing is that he has no desire to
pursue this lifestyle. He wants to be a
newscaster.
Three years ago, Rhodes wrote a
song which finally hit the charts in
January of this year, it was recorded by
a popular singing duo and ranked
nationally among the top five hits. Un-
fortunately, Rhodes sold all rights to
the song for $3,200, a pittance com-
pared to what he could have realized
from the song’s success. Under terms of
the sale, he not only relinquished all
monetary claim, but cannot even claim
authorship or publicity from it.
THIS EXPERIENCE has given
Rhodes a quick but expensive educa-
tion about the recording industry, he
said. “I first became aware of what had
happened after it was too late. I didn’t
know at the time that there were other
outlets. I sold the song when I could
have contracted and retained some
rights to it,” he said. Because of the
Campus Calendar
Wednesday
9 am
“International Reporting—East and
West," speaker Jiri Mochman, Jour-
nalism Building 201
9 a m.-2 p m
Alpha Kappa Alpha hake sale,
Wooten Hall
Noon
“Communism in Western Europe
Today.“ speaker Jiri Hochman,
Wooten Hall 222
Noon and I p m
Folklore program with Hermes
Nye, Language Building 316
2 p.m.
Sigma Delta Chi journalism society
meeting, Journalism Building Li-
brary
2 and 4 p m
SAU art film, “In Search of Rem-
brandt," TUB East Lounge
3 p m
Marketing Club meeting, Bus.ness
Administration Building 354
3 pm.
Informal coffee session, speaker Jiri
Hochman. Wooten Hall 267.
4 pm
Memorial service for Dr. Fred Gantt
Jr., the late chairman of the political
science department, at First United
Methodist Church sanctuary, 201
S Locust
4pm
Readers’ theater productions, Forum
Room, Speech Communication and
Drama Building
5 p m
University Players meeting. Studio
Theater
6-7 p m
Ethnic Affairs Advisory Board meet-
ing. TUB 123
7:30 pm.
Geography Club meeting, TUB 120
7:30 p.m
NT vs. Tarleton State basketball
game, Coliseum
8pm
SAU movie. “40 Carats," Main
Auditorium Admission 50 cents
with ID
8 15 p.m
University Symphony Orchestra
concert. Music Recital Hall
9 30 p.m
Mortar Board meeting, Delta Zela
Chapter Room, College Inn
Thursday
4 pm.
Readers’ theater productions, Forum
Room. Speech Communication and
Dramu Building
5 30 p m
Mandatory Tri-Service meeting,
TUB 103
6 30 p.m
Organ department recital. Music
Recital Hall
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Hall Recital Hall
1 in n m
Alpha Chi meeting and induction of
new members, Physics-Math Build-
ing 102
7 30 p m
NTR A meeting, Oak Street Hall 130
8 p.m
SAU movie, “40 Carats," Mam Au-
ditorium Admission 50 cents with
ID
8 15 p m
Composition department recital,
Music Recital Hall
CHUCK RHODES
legalities involved, Rhodes cannot
reveal the name of the song or the name
of the group that recorded it.
Despite his bitter first experience,
Rhodes still continues to write music,
but now there is one big difference—he
has it all copyrighted in his name for
protection.
“In the last six months, I've been
writing music constantly,” Rhodes
said. He writes both melody and lyrics,
and his production to date is about 10
completed songs.
“IT’S SOMETHING that comes to
you—an intense feeling that you can
put down in words and music—an in-
spiration,” he explained. “All my songs
are based on emotions, the way I feel
about something or someone. I can
write the words anywhere I am. For the
music, I have to get to a piano quick so
I can see what I have. I would classify
my music as Top 40 and easy-
listening,” he said.
He has played the piano for nine
years and considers it his main instru-
ment. He expanded his talents to in-
clude the organ and trombone.
When he enrolled at NTSU, Rhodes
had his sights set on becoming a band
director, with a major in music educa-
tion. He has since changed his major to
radio, TV and film.
WITH HIS CHANGE in direction
came an opportunity for him to expand
and enhance the capabilities of the
NTSU Film Production Unit. This unit
enables students in radio, TV and film
to work and produce a professional
film while maintaining their nonprofes-
sional status as students. Rhodes’
abilities have added another dimension
to the films—music.
This semester, Rhodes has written
the musical score for two films and is
now working on another. One of the
completed films is a promotional movie
for Denton State School, and the other
is for the departments of physics,
chemistry and biology at NTSU.
“I feel that this musical score ex-
perience could be valuable to me some-
day. When I was in Los Angeles last
summer, I learned that there was a lot
of money to be made in the music area
of soundtracking,” he said.
IN AUGUST, Rhodes went to Los
Angeles to get a taste of the entertain-
ment profession. He was invited there
by a friend, Larry Rolando, who works
as a studio musician on the national
network “Cher” show.
Rhodes played piano during the
recording sessions for three install-
ments of the "Cher” show. Since all the
music for each show is prerecorded,
“the pressure on a studio musician is
tremendous,” he said. After a week of
that work, Rhodes left Los Angeles
confident that was not the type of
career he wanted to pursue.
RHODES’ MAIN HOPE is centered
on his desire for a network job in
broadcasting. “I would like to work in
the news department of a network af-
filiate, working an anchor position for
a local station in the Dallas-Fort
Worth market,” he said.
”1 plan to finish at NTSU unless
something comes up that is more in-
teresting." he said For now, he will
concentrate on radio, TV and film, and
continue songwriting and music as a
sideline.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES UNION VISUAL ARTS COMMITTEE PRESENTS
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50$ with North Texas State University
Identification
ALAN GITLIN
VISUAL ARTS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Photo by CHARLIE COLE
Readers1 Theater Group
Dr. Ted Colson directs members of the readers’
theater production group during rehearsal. The group
will present readings today and Thursday and Dec.
8-9 at 4 p.m. each day in the Forum Room of the
Speech Communication and Drama Building Stu-
dents in Dr. Colson's Group Interpretation class
compose the group Three to five productions of
about 15 minutes each will be presented daily.
Outakes
Symphony Performs Tonight
The University Symphony Orchestra
will feature the Grand Chorus in its
final concert of the fall semester tonight
at 8:15 in the Music Recital Hall.
The Grand Chorus, with Frank
McKinley as conductor, will join the
full orchestra to perform Verdi’s “Te
Dcum” in the opening piece of the
program.lThe finale will be Respighi’s
“Pines of Rome," Orchestra Conduc-
tor Anshel Brusilow said
* * *
A noted folklorist, Hermes Nye of
Dallas, will present programs of
folklore today in Room 316 of the
Language Building at noon and I p.m.
Title of the program is "O Waly,
Waly, Bobbie McGee; The Ballad from
Yon to Hither.”
Dr. William Warde said the
programs are open to the public.
• A *
The radio/TV/film division has
selected two films as representative of
student talent and work in the film
media to be presented to a panel of
professional filmakers in Dallas
tonight.
’’Science — The World of
Discovery,” directed by Jim Allen,
Dallas senior, and “Reaching Out,”
directed by David Parker, San Antonio
graduate student, will be analyzed and
critiqued by the Society of Motion Pic-
ture and Television Engineers
(SMPTE).
Two mid-day talks
Topic: The
teachings of
Swami Rudranada
Speaker: Stuart Perrin
Dates: Tues Dec. 2, 3 00 p.m.
Thurs. Dec. 4, 3:00 p.m.
Place: Room 120, TUB
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