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AMIMIMI ■ Let our knowledgeable appraisers help you liquidate One item or an Entire Estate. 7/23 1999 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."