“IF YOU WANT to
learn to sing ‘pop’
music for fun or fame
the Tunesmith Tape
(from the Nanci Davis
School of Pop Singing)
will be your biggest
asset.’’”

By KELLEY.JO BURKE

This, you’ve got to admit,
sounds like something from
the back of a comic book.
Buy this tape, and find fame,
fortune and lots of white
teeth in the wonderful world
of popular music.

Hence meeting the ‘girls’
who pitch this item at parties
was something of a relief.

NOT RACKETEERS

Libbi Davis and Janet
MacTaggart are honest,
cheerful looking women who
approach their work with a
sense of humor. They are
both top students in Nanci
Davis’s school, which is
something of a North Shore
insuitulion, They do not
resemble racketeers.

A little over a year ago,
Nanci decided that there was
enough demand to warrant
marketing a tape with a
forty-five minute instruction
and practise routine for
potential popsters, who
either were too distant or too
broke to attend the school.
Sales strictly through the
school were brisk, and even-

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tually the tapes began to ap-
pear in some local stores.
Then Libbi, Nanci’s
daughter, suggested a party
sales approach as well, based
on the Tupperware model.
And Tunesmith parties join- -
ed the ranks of the home-
sellers.
LOTS OF FUN

‘But Tunesmith parties are
a lot more fun than spending.
the evening playing spin the
vacuum-sealing freezer con-
tainer. Or pricing plastic
brandy decanters.

Both Janet and Libbi were ©
a little nervous about doing
their party routine for an .au-
dience of two, but they gave
it a good shot. Their 20
minute spiel goes through a
few singing exercises, like the
ones done on the _ tape,
demonstrating how and why
they’re done. And, of course,
what the end result of the
training is.

Because both women are
fine singers.

Libbi has a lilting, chatty
delivery and a goodly
measure of poise to go with
it, and Janet complements
her well with a rich, throaty
tone. They both obivously
enjoy themselves, enjoy the
music, and enjoy perform-
ing, even to an almost empty
room.

ONE PERFORMANCE

After they’ve gone through
four exercises, for improving
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