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"We're adding some of the standard
rock 'n' roll Christmas stuff, like from
the Phil Spector Christmas Album and
the Drifters' White Christmas.
"There'll be a dance contest, hula
hoops, and I'm [going] to sing and
play the piano."

0 ne memory sticks in Jon
Bauman's head, like walking
on bubblegum.
It was meeting the
Silhouettes, whose 1958 hit "Get a
Job" introduced the doo-wop phrase
Yeah, He's Jewish
"sha na na" and, in turn, became
The second-born son of Polish-
Bauman's singing group's namesake.
German Jews, Bauman isn't fazed by
From listening to the record, he was
the perception that presenting a
always unsure if the R&B one-hit-
Christmas-tied oldies show raises a bit
wonders really sang "sha na na" or
of speculation about his Jewish back-
"sha da da.
ground.
Which one was historically accu-
rate?
_ "Man, we might have
sung `sha na na' ... or we
might have sung `sha da
da' on that record,"
Bauman was told. "We
really don't remember.
We just sang whatever
came out of our
mouths."
Bauman was dumb-
founded. To him, that
answer was like asking,
"What is the meaning of
life?" — and discovering
that there was no mean-
ing. Life was what you
made it.
So it is that he still
slicks back his hair, slips
into a sleeveless black T-
shirt and proceeds to
pulverize English into a
language dat yooz can
understand.
And when the trans-
formation is complete,
mommy-Os, daddy-Os
and kiddy-Os know him Jon Bauman: Enjoying being Bowzer.
as Bowzer
rock 'n'
roll's No. 1 greaseball.
"I didn't know that being Jewish
He refers to cruising on the "celes-
ever meant being different because we
tial satellite of live performing" and
always celebrated Christmas," reveals
raising holiday spirits as the host and
the Brooklyn=raised star, who attend-
star of "Bowzer's Rock 'n' Roll
ed a Conservative synagogue.
Christmas Show," coining Thursday,
"We weren't Reform, but my par-
Dec. 19, to the Macomb Center for
ents always celebrated Christmas and
the Performing Arts.
Chanukah. It was just a liberal, ecu-
"The vast bulk of the show is our
menical household. I think that they
usual, upbeat, fun show that we do as
just thought Christmas was OK. I got
Bowzer and the Stingrays; we're not
presents twice. It was fun."
going to just do Christmas carols,"
Bauman's father was a singing den-
emphasizes Bauman, who is Jewish.

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