Your Nashville Zines Wanted!

This Take One archival site currently has only 15 of the 28 issues of the magazine that were published between 1977 and 1979. If you have copies of the publication that aren't currently featured on the site, I'd be glad to take them off your hands! If you want to donate the zines, I'd be glad to reimburse you for the shipping costs. Ditto if you just want to lend them to us to scan for the site. I'd also be willing to negotiate a price if you'd rather sell your copies (note that we're on a tight budget).

Along with vintage copies of Take One magazine, I'm also interested in getting copies of The Metropolitan Reader and The Nashville Gazette to scan and archive here. We'll also take old copies of Hank magazine to archive on our Anarchy In The Music City! website. Any donated zines will be donated to an archive after scanning, as they'd be better at preserving the decades-old newsprint.

Contact the Reverend with the form above and I'll get back in touch as soon as possible. Thanx!

 

Take One: September 21st, 1979

Columns
Short Takes
Speak Out!
“Star Moods” (Ken Ray)
Calendar
Classifieds
“129 2nd” (Thom King)
Movement (uncredited)
Rumblin’s On the Row (Valerie Ridenour)
Book Review: The Great Shark Hunt (Allen Steele, Jr.)
Album Reviews: Bob Dylan (David Lindsey), Tammy Wynette (Kelly Delaney), Rickie Lee Jones (Phyllis Martin), Roseanne Cash (Ken Ray), REO Speedwagon (Neal Hampton)

Articles
Cockfighting: A Walk On the Illegal Side of A Southern Tradition (Steve Salonsky)
No Juice For the Chair (Carleen Turelli)
The Hots: Can’t You Get It? (Thom King)
Nashville’s Original Alternative Dee Jay (Charles Biderman)
Profile: Michael Smotherman (Sharon Bell)
What ‘Get The Knack’ Means, and Why (John Lomax III)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra: A Concert-Goer’s Delight (Tom Nichol)
Born Again Runners (Judy Isenhour)
Overdoing It (Judy Isenhour)
Excess Edibles Get Canned (Laurie Heise)
Farm Report (Matthew McClure)
Hickory Hollow Hosts Energy Expo (Naomi & Jeffrey Allen)
$5,000 Per Second (Carleen Turelli)
Sliding Into Afternoon Wasteland (Gary Kanter)
Reggie Churchwell: Local Mogul Goes For Boob Tube Mega-Bucks (Valerie Ridenour)

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Take One: July 30th, 1979

Columns
Short Takes
Speak Out!
“Star Moods”
Calendar
Classifieds
“Razz” (Heine)
Movement (Phyllis Martin)
Top Of The Rock (Scott Perry)
Rumblin’ On The Row (Phyliss Martin)
Performance Review: The Kinks (Sam Borgerson)
Book Review: The White Album (Pat Nunally)
Album Reviews: Neil Young, Elton John (Brad Smythe); Queen (Randy Ford)

Articles
No Alternatives In Mayor’s Race (uncredited)
Mayor’s Race Limps Into Home Stretch (Daryl Sanders)
All This For Only A Million Bucks… (John Lomax III)
One Last Shot At The Fast Dance Soiree (Kelly Delaney)
The Return of the Earth Mother (Judy Isenhour)
The Oriental Square, Ah So! (Sarah T. O’Toole & Turrell Twist)
Breaking Away (Scot Haller)
Finally, A Really Good Movie (Scot Haller)
These Are Important Issues (Gary Kanter)

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Take One: July 23rd, 1979

Columns
Short Takes
Speak Out!
“Star Moods”
Calendar
Classifieds
“176 2nd” (Thom King)
“Razz” (Heine)
Movement (Alis Pettit)
Rumblin’ On The Row (Phyliss Martin)
Performance Review: Billy Joe Shaver (Kelly Delaney)
Film Review: Dracula (Talmadge Sherron)
Book Review: Anyone’s Daughter (Talmadge Sherron)
Album Reviews: Devo, Graham Parker (Keith A. Gordon); Joni Mitchell (Bette Blackman & Neal Hampton)

Articles
Mansion Was No Jewel (Derek Fielding)
High Drama From The Oval Office (Daryl Sanders)
LeRoux: White Boys Singing Pretty Vocals (Elizabeth Thiels)
Wet Willie Here For R&R (Scott Perry)
Willie’s Picnic: An American Tradition (Huell Howser)
Doc Cuts Smoking LP (Judy Isenhour)
Couple Exhibit Paintings, Sculpture (Ellen Caldwell)

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More Take One Advertisers

 

More invaluable Take One magazine advertisers! The Villager, a bar in Hillsboro Village, was a favorite hangout of mine during my senior year of high school and afterwards. WKDF-FM was an early supporter of the zine, and this is their ad for the 1979 "One For The Sun" concert they co-promoted. Finally, The Great Escape, which came on board as an advertiser early, after they'd moved from a small house on Division to the much-larger location on Broadway that they subsequently spent decades in. I met Gary Walker, The Great Escape owner, when he was selling comics at the flea market every month at the Fairgrounds. I was an early customer at their Division store, and even worked for the company as a computer consultant, installing their first computer system and training staff members in its usage. Gary's son Greg became a good friend, and he contributed to my The Other Side of Nashville book. Thanx to all these folks for their support!

Take One: July 4th, 1979

Columns
Short Takes
Speak Out!
Star Moods
The Calendar
Classifieds
“Beowulf’s Journal”
Thumbnails (short film reviews)
Rumblin’s On The Row (Phyllis Martin)
LP Shortshots: The Knack, Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Mick Taylor (uncredited)

Articles
Sad Times For Happy Huell (Thom King)
Hartsville/Hiroshima Protest (Craig T. Canan)
Galbreath Proposes Preservation Bill (Daryl Sanders)
The Rolling Wonder Revue (Jan Simmons)
Video Disc: Laser Madness In Atlanta
Carp Cause Paper Bag Shortage (Phyllis Martin)
The Super Pickers: From Studio To Center Stage (Sharon Bell)
Reed Waxes Hot & Live At Exit/In (Kelly Delaney)
Natural Nashville: Food Fair Phenomena (Laurie Heise)
Having Fun In Gasless Nashville (Phyllis Martin, photos by John King)
Charles Trois’ Subconscious Exposed (Ellen Caldwell)
Flap-Flop: Nightwing (Talmadge Sherron)
Sunset Unveiled (Anne Ashcraft)
Cilla’s Art (Ellen Caldwell)
Architectural Antiques: Recycling Old Treasures (Katherine Alexander)
Dissenter’s Castle (Patricia Lipman)

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Take One: June 14th-21st, 1979

Columns
Short Takes
Speak Out!
“Star Moods”
Classifieds
“176 2nd” (Thom King)
Movement (Craig T. Canan)
Film Reviews: The In-Laws (Scott Haller), Wanda Nevada (Daryl Sanders), The Drunkard (Tom Patrick)
Thumbnails (short film reviews)
Album Reviews: Kansas, Lou Reed (Brad Smythe); Emmylou Harris (Sam Borgerson)

Articles
Do We Need Hartsville (Craig T. Canan)
Important Questions For Important People: Jimmy Carter, Lamar Alexander, Howard Baker, James Sasser, Bill Boner
Henry Paul: Outlaw On His Own (Scott Perry)
Fan Fair ’79 Wrap-Up (Sharon Bell)
Joe Sun: Old Flames Start A Blaze (Sharon Bell)
“I Got ‘It’ With ISA” (Jan Simmons)
Sinking Creek: Films With Feeling (Daryl Sanders & Talmadge Sherron)

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Take One: June 4th-11th, 1979

Columns
Short Takes
“Star Charts”
Offbeat
Classifieds
“176 2nd” (Thom King)
Movement (Craig T. Canan)
Top of the Rock (Scott Perry)
Film Reviews: The Innocents (Tom Patrick), Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (Talmadge Sherron), Manhattan & Prisoner of Zelda (Daryl Sanders)
Thumbnails (short film reviews)
Book Review: Nathan Pritikin (Charles Biderman)
Performance Reviews: Jerry Lee Lewis (uncredited), Steve Young (Sam Borgerson)
Records: Lee Clayton (Sharon Bell), Oak Ridge Boys (Kelly Delaney)

Articles
Caution: Condos Ahead (Kay Mahan & Pat Nunally)
Poco Last Thursday (Scott Perry)
Dave Perkins Talks (Scott Perry)
Fan Fair ’79 Swarms (Sharon Bell)
Getting “It” With ISA (Jan Simmons)
Making Bread Easy (Charles Biderman)
Peddler Generation (Gary Kanter)
Ten Years After & Black Oak (Thom King)
Alvin Lee: An Interview (Thom King)
All This For Only $175… (Thom King with photos by John King)

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