Two Nice Girls sing with original songs By HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Four years ago in Austin, Texas, Laurie Freelove had a plan: She wanted to meet Gretchen Phillips, whose music she liked, and start a band with her. Around that same time, Phillips was mourning the demise of her previous group, Meat Joy, and longed to start another one. She and Freelove met and were soon playing guitar together at coffee houses. They performed Monkees songs, rock 'n' roll, old movie tunes as well as their own material. They called themselves Two Nice Girls. A few months later, Freelove and Phillips met Kathy Korniloff and were so pleased with how their voices and guitars sounded together they decided to add her to the group. The name? Two Nice Girls. "That was my idea," Phillips explained. "It beat the hell of out of The Jackson Five. Some friends of mine were in a band called Five Happy Guys. One of them left so they changed the name to The Hap piness Crew. We were called Two Nice Girls and hired somebody else, but I didn't want to change the name." They are a major part of a lively Austin music scene that has attracted the attention of critics around the country. All three Nice Girls, however, grew up elsewhere. Phillips attended Houston's High School for the Performing Arts. "My fast song was a duet that I wrote for my sis ter and I," she recalled. "We would take baths together and it would take forever. The song went, `lO2, 00 oo oo . . 107, Ill.' That was it. Then we would take the washcloth and suck the water out of it. I had no idea what it was about." • (DBA • (DBA • (DBA • (DBA • (DBA • (DBA • (DBA • (DBA • (DBA • Looking for a little adventure in your life? 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LAURIE FREELOVE, member of Two Nice Girls N Ca A 4 4 A 0 0 am Interested in expanding your photographic skills? The Daily Collegian will conduct interviews for photographers at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 6 in 209 Willard. We're looking for people with experience in black-and-white photography. You'll have the opportunity to cover news, sports and features on campus and in the surrounding area. If you're interested in becoming a Collegian photographer, bring five samples of your work to the meeting. If you have any questions, call Troy Ott or Mike Orazzi at 865-1828. dtall; Collegian Penn State's morning newspaper ideal life what we did that one time. As it turned out, the sta tion still had the master copy on two-track which they let us use. They said, It's your performance; we only have the tape."' The melodies and sweet harmonies make Two Nice Girls easy to listen to, but "My Heart Crawls Off," written by Phillips and Sara Hickman, is a bit ter song about jealousy. "That's the power of being a songwriter," Phillips said. "I just wrote this horrible song about ( Presi dent) Bush that's got a really lovely melody. If I just made another punk anthem called Hate You,' it wouldn't be really effective." Freelove wrote "Money," a long way from the Motown hit of the same title that proclaimed, "The best things in life are free, but you can keep it for the bird and bees." Instead, Freelove warns against being "a slave to money." "It's about money and obsession and the ways it numbs you out," Freelove said. "Money keeps many of us protected from distressing things, dis turbing things. People who have money can shield themselves from observing the homeless." Their sound recalls The Roches and Indigo Girls. But what could have influenced Phillips' "I Spent my Last Ten Dollars (on Birth Control and Beer)" or "The Holland Song," in which Korniloff sings, "The Dutch are too much"? "I don't really think of these songs as song of expe rience, but songs of perspective," Freelove said. think that the content of the songs are much more about how life ought to be. What we'd like for it to be like. - We consciously try to create a sense of commu nity. It's more likely to save us from horribly depressing lives. You have some sort of good feel ings. Bands are at an advantage, they're capable of doing that." SAy CIiEESE Fox network sees success after three years on the air By JERRY BUCK AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES Housewife Peg Bundy is crass, pushy, all dolled up and yearning to be appreciated and loved. As such, the star of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s "Married... With Children" is much like the upstart network that the sitcom has led out of the ratings wilder ness. This past week "Married... With Chil dren" got a 13.4 rating, the highest ever for a Fox show, and for the second time this summer it beat the network compe tition. The A.C. Nielsen Co. rating is the percentage of the estimated 90.4 million homes with television in the United States. The show ranked 17th in the Nielsen ratings, right there with the big-time competition of NBC's "The Golden Girls" and "Empty Nest." "Married... With Children," which pokes fun at the happy, wholesome fam ilies on television sitcoms, has been crit icized as too raunchy, but Fox has no intention of toning it down. The public ity, if anything, has helped the show. The show does push the limits, but it's also incredibly funny. Katey Sagal stars as Peg Bundy, the lazy, sex-starved housewife, and Ed O'Neill is loutish Al Bundy, who'd rath er roll his socks than satisfy his wife's longing. They have a sluttish daughter, a delinquent son and two lovey-dovey neighbors they are eager to disillusion. "We're quite happy around here," said Peter Chemin, president of the Fox Broadcasting Entertainment Group. "It's a happy place these days." Celebrate this year's line-up Wednesday, Se Kick Off 6:30 p.m. Start your entertainment season with "Me and My Girl, winner of 3 Tonys and 5 Drama Desk Awards. Still on Broadway. the lighthearted musical is about a Cockney ne'er-do-well who suddenly learns he's the Earl of Hareford. Show time 8 p.m. Eisenhower Auditorium Before the show come to a Kick Off Party. There will be refreshments, live entertainment and ticket give-aways for other performances during the season. Everyone's feet will be tapping. Don't miss it. 863 0255 PSI,' Students! Tickets are 1, 2 price PENNSTATE 30 minutes before the show! Valid gPark I.D. required for each ticket. Cimpus That wasn't always the case for Fox Broadcasting. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's chal lenge to the three commercial networks is at last being taken seriously after get ting off to a shaky start three years ago with a single late-night show. That show, starring Joan Rivers, was a rat ings bomb and lasted less than a year. It didn't begin prime-time program ming until April 1987, first on Sunday, then on Saturday. This fall it expands to Monday. Chernin said he attributes the Fox success to two factors. think there is a tremendous sense of momentum which helps viewers find Fox," he said. "There's a lot of word of mouth, the press is writing more about us, advertis ers are taking us more seriously and our stations are growing stronger. Every thing is working together. "The other key factor is we have tried to be as aggressive as we can about launching new series as early as we can. We've had new episodes on Satur day night since June." Two other Fox shows, "America's Most Wanted" and "Totally Hidden Video," have also done well in the rat ings this summer. "Open House," a revamp of "Duet," premiered last week in 47th place. "21 Jump Street," a police show about young detectives, has attracted a large following among young people, although its ratings have never gotten it out of the cellar. This fall, it spawns "Booker," in which maverick policeman Dennis Booker, played by Richard Grieco, gets his own show.
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