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Leroy Green
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People paid five dollars t
Sunday night in order to get a
Who is Leroy Green, and wh
UNTIL THE summer of 107?
friends, family and fellow e
Office in Philadelphia, Pa. In
the success of a song called "]
and written by Leroy Green
"I wanted a song that was d
to catch the eye and ear/* (
GREEN. A FORMER rMi<
past weekend for "An Even
Bleau Inn at 5321 Farrow R<
He said although "Disco Ini
song recorded. He wrote "Wa
and "Love Epidemic" and ";
The West Columbia native t
for the Trammps. "At the tim
one disco group in the worlc
before and they said 'Love Ej
HE SAID he was elated wh
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un uic rctuio. i m geiung use
I'm becoming an 'old pro'!"
"Disco Inferno" sold more
seller isn't enough, the song
"Saturday Night Fever."
With several million persoi
ahead to better days. "I'm si
said. Green said he hopes to <
with the tune he wrote for "<
Tops. "It's middle-of-the-road
In the meantime Green wi
whose tune has probably beei
being a famous composer cli
" THEY GAVE me a big par
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mi ui a suuucn, i was signinj
for."
Green said he is going to c<
"big one." "I'm always look!
and it's gone. You have to eat
produce, publish and find out i
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ntcock Staff Writer
o enter Columbia's Fountain Bl<
look at Leroy Green.
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B the only people who knew Leroy i
mployees at the main branch U
1976 Green became a celebrity be<
Disco Inferno," recorded by the Ti
ifferent, but not too different ? soi
Jreen said.
dent of West Columbia, was in tc
ing With Leroy Green" at the F
sad.
ferno" was his first hit, it was not
itintf fnr fh? Rain" fnt? .TftKnn? "P'
Soul Searching Time" for the Tri
said he wrote "Disco Inferno" spe<
ie the Trammps were labeled the
1," Green said. "I had written f<
)idemic' sounded pretty good."
en he first heard his now two-yeai
d to it now and I try not to get too
than a million copies in 1976. If a
is on the 30 million-selling soundl
is listening to his song, Green is
till waiting for that one big hit tu
establish himself as a major musi<
)n Top," a comeback album by ti
> with good up-tempo songs," he sal
11 just have to settle being a son
n played in every disco in the woi
tanged his life?
tv when I left the nnnt nffioo " flro
g autographs for the people I was i
rntinue to write music until he lai
ng to advance. After all, you have
so you come up with another. I'<
about the business and how it worto
i Ton of Carolina
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Post Gamf
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5 pm - 7:30 p
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OCT. 25
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Crosby
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s Delight
tfon.-Sat. Open 11 a.m. for Lunch
erved Till 12 Midnight ^sco ?Pcn a*
Entertainment
i.,Sat. 11-12 Oinner served
nigjfrfiy 6-1 2
ps and Expeditions (
rag the following Tri|
? Trip to Atlanta to
the San Francisco 49
ima raicons. Lost is :
- Trip to the Colonial
of America's finest, ir
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6 ? Express Bus to N
hose who want to go
days. The stops will in
Richmond, VA; Wasl
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odelphla, PA; and N
6 ? Trip to Broadwa
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5.00.
| 'Beatle Fest'
set for weekend
| Mark and Carol Lapidos
present Beatlefest "J?J, to be held
in Atlanta this weekend. The
celebration will be held at the
Pcachtree Plaza Hotel on
Saturday, Oct. 28, 1 p.m.
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29, noon - 11 p.m.
I At Bemtlefett, Beatle fans
from all over the South will be
entertained in four large
ballrooms on two floors. Tickets
at the door will be $8.50 each
day.
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