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86• Detroit Jewish News
from page 84
the piece de resistance," says Cooper,
series, and the band plays on; the
"the guys up front would wear gold
original members earned millions,
lame suits like the kind they used in
and continue to make more, from the
Bye-Bye Birdie." The university grant-
old Columbia shtick.
ed permission for an outdoor concert.
Did we say the original members?
They saw that what we were doing
Not all. "By the time of the second
was harmless fun, defusing the bad
album, I left the group," says Cooper.
feelings of the riots."
"I wanted to get on with my life. I
As the Kingsmen started to per-
wanted to go to graduate school."
form at local colleges, they had to
Unlike all other rock 'n' roll fathers
find a new name: There already was
who yell at their sons to stay in
a Kingsmen — performers of the
school, Cooper had a smart Jewish
immortal "Louie, Louie." So,
father who yelled at his son to stay
Cooper and the boys became Sha-
with rock 'n' roll.
Na-Na, from the doo-wop prelude
So, the Woodstock kid studied
to "Get A Job."
religion at Yale, and taught religion
They got a job at Steve Paul's
for 11 years at Hebrew Union
Scene, in the West 40s, on a tiny
College in Cincinnati. He's now back
stage in a small room. They hit pay
in Morningside Heights with an
dirt: $50 a night, $100 on weekends,
unusual joint appointment, teaching
for shows at midnight and 2 a.m.
Bible at the Jewish Theological
In those wee hours, enter Michael
Seminary and (the Christian) Union
Lang. An organizer of Woodstock, he
Theological Seminary.
signed Sha-Na-Na on
the spot for the $750.
They were novices. By
Woodstock weekend,
Aug. 15-17, Sha-Na-
Na had only played a
few colleges, Steve
Paul's Scene and a fair
or two.
Housing at
Woodstock, remembers
Cooper, was "crashing
in the back lot behind
the stage. The guys in
Ten Years After had a
camper with a great
supply of food, and
Former Sha-Na-Na member Alan Cooper
they helped us out.
"We were the next-
to-last performers on
the bill, just before Jimi Hendrix.
He has a different lifestyle now
Woodstock was supposed to end
than the Woodstock superstars with
Sunday night. It actually ended
whom he shares history: "I daven, put
Monday morning," with Hendrix
on tefillin, our home is kosher, we're
playing at sunrise, his wrenching "Star
Sabbath observant." He only sings in
Spangled Banner" greeting the dawn.
shul or the shower.
In those early hours, just before
He had just "trivial regrets. I'd
Hendrix, Cooper and the boys ran on
think, that could be me,' when I saw
stage. Cooper, the Columbia kid from
them on TV, but on a moment's
HANC, bare-chested under a gold
reflection I knew it wasn't me."
lame vest, wearing shades and a taxi
Cooper enjoys telling the old sto-
driver's hat, belted out "At The Hop,"
ries, of the Fillmore and Ten Years
posturing like a greaser — the carica-
After. All the while, it is 30 years
ture later adopted by Bowzer on TV.
after, and Rambam's Guide for the
All you see in the movie is 52 sec-
Perplexed and his Treatise On Logic lay
onds, with Cooper at the mike.
open on the professor's desk.
Sometimes, that's all it takes: 52
"What the hell," says Cooper, smil-
seconds. Cooper and Sha-Na-Na
ing. It was an interesting time in my
went on to play the fabled Fillmore
past. It's unusual for a professor.
East in the Village, and the Fillmore
"It intrigues people and, frankly,
West in San Francisco, sharing bills
that delights me. If they're attracted to
with Taj Mahal, the Kinks and
me for a weird reason and then I ger
Canned Heat.
to teach them some Torah, great! I've
There were albums and a television
achieved my goal." fl
"We were the
next to last
performers
on the bill,
just before
Jimi Hendrix."