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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, March 2, 1969
Two THE MICHIGAN DALY Sunday, March 2, 1969
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48 hours of hot dogs and rock
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By THOMAS R. COPI,
JOHN GRAY,
FRED LaBOUkI
And a Cast of Thousands
Thirty-six hours, 650 songs,
four dozen hot dogs, a case of
orange juice and 34 beers ago
we sat down in front of a radio,
two tape recorders, 18,000 feet
of tape, a deck of cards and a
sheaf of paper to hear the His-
tory of Rock and Roll.
Right now our minds have
turned to jelly, we're hung over,
broke, hungry, sick of hot dogs,
running out of tape and pretty
damn happy.
We've been spelling each
other. As one of us passes out
or has to write the others man
the recorders. And then whoever
missed it listens to the tape and
the live show at the same time.
Through earphones. Steve Stills
in one ear and LaVerne Baker in
the other. Whoooeeeee.
We were skeptical I'll admit,
as the strains of "Judy in Dis-
guise" faded out at 11:59 a.m.
Friday. It seemed likely that we
were going to hear a hoked-up
version of the regular old Mil-
lion Dollar Weekend that Top 40
radio stations love so much.
But from the very beginning
CKLW hit a high note of integ-
rity and good taste that's hard
to believe.
It's been a fantasy trip, a
recapitulation of all the things
that have happened in our lives.
All of a sudden you're thirteen
and your girl smells like hair.
spray and Clearasil, and then
you're seven listening to your
big sister's radio, and then it's
last year. After twenty hours or
so it starts to drive you crazy.
Songs,. songs, eight hundred
songs. Songs that you had total-
ly forgotten but that now take
you back to summer - camp;
songs that you never even knew
existed but that you can sing
along with anyway because
they're just like all the rest.
CKLW's Rockumentary is the
brainchild of Pete Johnson,
music critic for the Los Angeles
times. It isn't what you might
think; that is, it doesn't start
with Rosemary Clooney and run
through year by year until final-
ly, inevitably we get to "Dizzy,"
today's number one tune.,I
Instead the 100 or so guys
who put together "radio's fin-
est hours" organized it into
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segments like "The History of
Rhythm and Blues," "The His-
tory of Country and Western
in Rock and Roll," "Folk Spot-
light," etc. As we go to press
we have jived through two
twelve - hour - long "C h a r t
Sweeps" which chronologically
presented the best of the Top
Forty from 1953 to today.
Interspersed between songs,
God so many songs, are inter-
views with the singers, produc-
ers, and composers responsible
for rock. Phil Spector talks
about Sonny Bono, Nino Tempo
and Billy Strange on "Zip-a-
Dee-Doo-Dah." Little Richard
Penniman recalls his conversion
to the way of the Lord, and
Ahmet Ertagun explains the
unique guitar styling on an
early release by noting that "the
bass player didn't show up." It's
the kind of trivia that sends
rock fiends into near hysteria,
that's if they can stop dancing
long enough to pay close atten-
tion.
the narration by Charlie Van
Dyke which runs all through the
show is much much better than
we had expected. Instead of the
Life Magazine kind of conven-
tional wisdom most of us asso-
ciate with big radio rock 'n' roll,
his comments are mostly valid,
sometimes damn funny (he re-
fers in one song to "metaphy-
sical poetry at its most gro-
tesque") and once in awhile even
perceptive.
The creators of the show have
apparently realized the impor-
tance of letting the music speak
for itself to their everlasting
credit and our everlasting joy.
And their programming has
been impeccable. No sooner does
one of us remember some song
they forgot, when they play it.
However, we can hardly forgive
their repetition of four songs out
of 650. They can't fool us.
We were afraid at the begin-
ning that we were going to have
a fist fight on our hands. The
show opened with five hours of
R&B to the dismay of those of
us who have been claiming for
years that C&W is being sadly
underrated in the conventional
wisdom of rock history. But
CKLW came back and gave
white roots their due, no more
no less. The balance has been
beautiful.-
Today at noon it will all be
over. Twelve more hours. If only
they can keep it up, if only the
balance stays balanced it will
have all been worth it and more.
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He's the King
Go hear the Good News
By BOB FRANKE
Dave Van Ronk maintains
that before 1968 he only said of
two people in the music busi-
ness that they would make it:
Bob Dylan in 1961 and Joni
Mitchell in 1965. He says the
same about two young men
from Philadelphia who call
themselves Good News. After
hearing themon Friday night I
can see his reasons.
I was screaming about Joni
Mitchell myself in '67 and '68
because although it was evident
that she stood beside and apart;
from Dylan and above the rest
of popular music, I could see
her, given the rather (pardon
the expression) soulless state of
the business, being relegated to
a small audience at this time
and a great many master's
theses a hundred years from
now.
I am not worried about Good
News, however. Tonight at
Canterbury is your last chance
to see them for the price; it's
entirely up to you. They will be
heard. If the MC5 are the logi-
cal end of rock music, Good
News is simply the beginning of
a new phase in popular music.
Their elements are gpitar,
bass, cello, two precisely close
voices, a collection of simple,
clear very deep and very beauti-
ful songs, a sense of humor and
good times and absolutely no
crap whatsoever.
Descriptive metaphors: vocal-
ly, a little like the Bee Gees
talking sense for a change. The
power of Dylan without the ob-
scurity. The lyric precision of
J o n i Mitchell without the
drama. Musically like a Flemish
master painting representation-
ally with a restricted pallette.
Friday night they achieved
immediately the spontaneity
that Kweskin was looking for
when he came here and smoth-
ered in his own self-conscious-
ness. Simply everybody digging
it and having a good time. No
trouble at all, no tension.
It has been coming for a long
time; I remember Joni at Mari-
posa last year talking about
music coming back from the
dance hall into the living room,
and filling it out. There is so
much there, folks, that it just
doesn't need to be hyped. Good
news, indeed.
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