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Jim LeBlartc 'Takin' til Homecorr By JOLEEN FIREK Staff writer Jim LeBlanc didn't come to South Carolina for a musical career, but music is certainly his business now. The first release tor the 31-year-old vocalist/guitarist ? the cassette Takin' Time to Play, containing nine original songs ? is now available at local record stores. LeBlanc will appear from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 28 at the Russell House patio for the university's Homecoming Picnic. His repertoire includes popular folk and rock'n'roll music of the '60s, '70s and '80s. LeBlanc hopes to draw a crowd of students who want to get involved and said he likes an audience that taps its toes and sings along. LeBlanc has been performing professionally for three-and-a-half years, entertaining audiences of diverse ages. "I had two objectives when 1 started performing," LeBlanc said. "One was to live the dream of doing music that I've always had. The other was to have fun with people at the same time." He plays the harmonica, as well as six- and 12-string guitars. Acoustic interpretations of songs by the Beatles, Jimmy Buffet, Harry Chapin, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens and numerous other artists are interwoven in his shows with original pieces. LeBlanc began teaching himself guitar chords at the age of nine and learned the songs of Dylan, Jim Croce and the Beatles by singing and playing along with the radio. He started writing songs as a teenager, he said. "As I was growing up, music was more of a therapy than a central theme in my life," he said. "Yet, it was always in the back of my mind." LeBlanc left his home in Tupper Lake, N.Y., to attend USC, where he graduated with a business/marketing degree. He then worked as a purchasing agent for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. Later, he became USC's purchasing director of youth services. Soon restless and dissatisfied with the business world, LeBlanc decided to pursue his music full time. He left the university one-and-a-half years ago. "Sure, it was risky," he said. "Yet, it was a matter of taking the ! ins i RICH FINE LADIES' & IV The Resa 1202 Calho Columbia, S.C. I Was Trying And Could No So I Went To And Had A Di CockWednesday: Joke N $1.25 pi Thursday: $1.25 pit* All Nite Every Friday LIVE B ABC Reg uiations Enforced! Tie to play' ling picnic fmmWKm: * 1 1 Jim LeBlanc chance and going for it." He began performing in Columbia nightclubs and then moved to loca- ^ tions along the coast, including Charleston, the Isle of Palms, Pawley's Island and Beaufort. LeBlanc performs regularly at ^ local clubs, such as Pugs in Five x Points, Plato's in Dutch Square and ' Yesterday's in St. Andrews. He will appear at Muldoon's Oct. 1. "There is nothing else I would j want to do more than what I'm doing j. right now. If I can keep writing and v recording and playing music, then I c consider that success." ant! lay j 1ENSAPPAREL le Store un Street (803) 252-0954 To Study t Think... The CockPit rink... r silt Ijjif UU kMl > ite? 'l/r /) i tchers V//' chers Long!!! & SATl FRDA Y ANI)S lh+Weknmr W'tu-n thnv is ;i iiah<l No Satur Japanese child practice 'three at weekend cla By MARY CATHERINE CARROLL Staff writer Yoshitaka Sakakibara of USC's Language anu Liiciaiuie uepanmeni k important it is for Japanese children t< their education when they come to t States with their parents on business. Because of this, he founded and no\ Saturday school offered by the US< Language Department and the Depa Education so that these children can con ning during their stay here. This program, similar to schools in L< and New York, is an added incentive fo firms to locate in the state. "I have lots of opportunities to meet businessmen considering investments Carolina. The first question they alw; whether we have a Saturday program Japanese parents are very conscious a children's education," Sakakibara said. The Supplementary Japanese Learni charges $35 per month for tary-school-aged children and $25 p for preschoolers. The program receives assistance Japanese government and is presently s< from South Carolina's government. The school is in its third year of opet has 24 pupils from Columbia, Or Camden and other surrounding areas. C held every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 i Curriculum is purely Japanese. Using Newly wed s By The Associated Press IV NEW YORK ? Newly wed and tl Dusy in her career as singer and com- Ji Doser, Carly Simon dreams of having p i little house in the suburbs. tr "How 1 picture it is a little stone IV louse, with maybe two or three bedrooms, tiny, though," she said. S( 'I'll do all the housework myself. ? With a nice living room with sf ireplace and a cozy kitchen. 01 "It doesn't need to have a lot of ground, but it needs to have trailing A ines, wisteria or honeysuckle, and 01 lefinitely a magnolia tree if possible. th That's what 1 want to escape to on al veekends from the city." al This is not, however, a woman Y ooking forward to retirement. She lad a new album out in August^ vhich was taped during her first con- re ert performance in eight years. gi She's also scoring a movie for G i JACKETS?CAP! "Anything Textili Southern Womens Serving The Area i Abortion Services & Counseling Problem Pregnancy Counseling Pregnancy Testing Gyn Exams "Personal Contact With Son 24-Hr. Answering Service 254-4368 or Toll Free 1-800 922-9, 1614 Two Notch Rd. Colli WE Carry 1 Bicycles Parts and A Bike Appare & Helmets Bring Your Bil A Service CI" 513 Twelfth Street W. C Only 10 Min. 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"I was promoting the Coming round Again album, which came jt in April 1987; consequently, lere are many songs on the live bum that also are on that album. 1 so did 'You're So Vain,' 'L,o.ving. ou Is the Right Thing To Do' and Jobody Does It Better.' "My favorites are songs that never ally got exposure, and I wanted to ve a second life, like 'Never Been one,' which is my favorite song on r<i ; rnmrn <51 791-! Located at 110 State S ...Just across Gervals St. Services Inc. Since 1973 Family Planning & Birth Control Services Trained Counselors Speakers for Schools & Civic Groups ieone Who Cares^ 750 Wupli mbia 4* Bicycle CHWtNN ccessories >1, Shoes <e In For leck-Up olumbia 794-2363 n Campus tons for tli nts of the Supplementary Japanese Learn he USC foreign Language and Literature tessmen who are in the United States, keej instructs them in mathematics. :arn mathematics with in- is expecting m ese. The children attend "After their g the week where their or four years, i Japanese. to Japan," Sal graded in the Saturday day school, mt i lot of homework every reading and w "They also company in Charleston justing to the . Greenwood, Sakakibara as the culture < cuiy Simon k the album, and 'It Happens tvery Day,'" she said in a recent interview 1 in her Manhattan apartment. < "It's funny how certain songs that 1 I've written I always thought were i terrific songs, but they were never I picked up from albums as singles, or : they were on albums that were flops, < or they were never recorded properly." i The curse of the recording in- I dustry, she said, is radio's top 40 playlists. "It kills your artistic f motivation," she said, but credited ' Arista Records President Clive Davis s for helping to keep her going. ? Carly Simon became Mrs. Jim t Hart on Dec. 23. The couple met on a train in upstate New York in May li 1987. p "He was an insurance salesman. tl He said saying that got rid of a lot of f people at cocktail parties," she said. b -VI COCKS! ^ PLZl I rmrm 9 "SPECIAI >638 For Fraton itroot, West Columbia Wl Bridge, 5 mln from USC ? * 2112 Devine in F */FrTT_ / "m I Thursday, Sept. 22 j |^Fnda^Sep^^^^^^^Te F / Saturday, Sept. 24 / $"\ .00 otf cover wl < j |^Sunday^ep^2^^ I r^onday!"sept. 2b No Cover & Big Sere' Thursday, Oct. 6 lese kids fWSm * WA YNE YANG/The Gamecock ing School, founded and directed by ' department. The school, set up for ps the children fluent in reading and ore new students, stay in the U.S. of as long as three these children will eventually return <akibara said, "if not for our Saturtny of them might have trouble with riting in Japanese." might encounter difficulty in readJapanese educational system as well or social system," he said. eeps busy "He riveted me. I was just fascinated. It didn't matter what he did. I'd never gone out with a man kvho had a straight job before. I'm used to artists and musicians. He hought I was one of those female singers but he wasn't sure which 3ne." Hart, who had already begun a lovel, quit his job and moved to vlartha's Vineyard with Simon. Simon says her well-known stage "right comes from claustrophobia. 'It probably stems from a childhood itammer," she said. "I was always ifraid of being humiliated by having o talk in public. "On a stage 1 feel trapped by the ights, as if 1 can't get off. Then I tanic. Outside (last summer on Marha's Vineyard) it was a lot better. I elt there was more air for me to reathe and I felt less trapped." L DISCOUNTS" lities & Sororities lolesale ive Points 252R0CK an Monday hiu, Robin Trower I / Advance tickets on sale I /