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2 The Dally Ter Heel Section D August 25, 1975 n u 3. s 3 cr e o 3 3 3- by Dan Fesperman Staff Writer . Fraternity juke box music, like some other aspects of fraternity Ule, nas become a victim of stereotyping. Whether it's hard-driving, Izod-contorting bump music, or just easygoing topsider-tapping tunes, the menu of frat music can be summed up in three words oldies but goldies. The fraternity oldies lineup can be broken down into three categories beach music, pop hits and bump-soul. -11 Selecting a top ten of frat music is difficult. So many songs are virtually played into the ground, that it is hard to discern the ten that are driven the deepest. . . After several calls to fraternity houses and an ample sampling ot their juKe boxes, the following ten songs were picked: 1) My Girl The Temptations (Beach) 2) With This Ring The Platters (Beach) 3) Long Train Running The Doobie Brothers (Pop Hits) 4) Under the Boardwalk The Drifters (Beach) 5) Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy The Tarns (Beach) 6) Love Will Keep Us Together The Captain and Tenille ( Non oldie) 7) Tighten Up Archie Bell and the Drells (Beach) 8) Hollywood Swingin'Koo and the Gang (Bump-soul) 9) Colour My World Chicago (Pop Hits) 10) Brandy The Looking Glass (Pop Hits) Dominating the top ten with five spots is beach music, including four of the top five. The reason for beach music's intense popularity with fraternities is somewhat of a mystery. It can hardly be called nostalgic, since most of the beach songs were recorded when most of the active frat brothers were pre adolescents. The category of pop hits covers a wide range of easy-listening songs from the late sixties up to earlv 1974. The third category, bump-soul, is the newest style of fraternity music. Kool and the Gang led the way with "Funky Stuff (Parts 1 and II), "J ungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swingin'." Raleigh nig hi offers style change by Greg Porter Associate Editor The Village nightclub scene approximates a broken record. The record is, of course, hard rock, folk or bluegrass, and its audience is clad in T-shirts and blue jeans. It's really a good record. It just keeps repeating itself. For those who get tired of retreading the old vinyl, there is an alternative. When the Chapel Hill scene gets old, Raleigh and Durham beckon with a different sort of atmosphere and music. If Chapel Hill's night spots are earthy, Raleigh's are cosmopolitan by comparison. Which is neither all good nor all bad. Raleigh, for instance, boasts more strip joints on Hillsborough Street than Durham can claim massage parlors, which is an accomplishment of sorts. After all, if you watch local TV you know "Durham's got it." Raleigh, of course, is always suspect to the dyed-in-the-wool Tar Heel. But sharing entertainment space with the farmers of old State U. can be more than bearable if you know where to go. Raleigh offers several nightclubs of semi sophisticated decor and a musical spectrum from beach to folk music that rarely dips into hard rock. In Raleigh, night life is also a broken record, but at least its a different Summer vinyl: resurrections, AM hits, good sounds by George Bacso Associate Features Editor The summer months are the time of year when the recording industry thrives. The young record-buying public has more time to listen to records and attend concerts. But more importantly, from the industry's standpoint, summer means work for most students and this means money to buy albums. Consequently, the racks in hometown record stores have probably been overflowing with new releases. To try and aid the listener who has been swamped by this vinyl outpour, this first of what will be a regular music column, consists of capsule reviews of several recent releases which might otherwise go unnoticed. As will be the case in future columns, an attempt has been made to survey diverse musical interests. Elvin Bishop Juke Joint Jump (Capricorn): When the weather turns hot, there comes a demand for an album which is not too taxing mentally, with relatively simple lyrics, but with enough quality to sustain interest throughout repeated playing. Bishop's second Capricorn LP, unlike the overly-serious material he released following his association with Paul Butterfield, satisfies that demand nicely. Southern rockin' blues, get-down boogie and good time country are combined, and Bishop's slide and bottleneck guitar is featured. There's even a good reggae number "Hold On." This album, especially "Sure Feels Good," is positively uplifting. Yes Yesterday (Atlantic): A journey into the past of the top classically influenced rock group, this LP should not be dismissed as another attempt at making money on a repackagingjob. The first two albums by Yes contained a mixture of cover versions of mid-60's tunes reworked progressively, as well as original material. Six of those songs are on this new release, along with two cuts previously available only on an Atlantic sampler ("America") and as B side to a single MUSIC REPRODUCTION EQUIPMENT & SERVICE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. 1 1 3 N . COLUMBIA ST. 942-31 62 STUDENT CHARGES & MAJOR CARDS ACCEPTED. ("Dear Father"). The material from the first two albums features Peter Banks on guitar, Bill Bruford on drums, Chris Squire on bass and Tony Kaye's fine keyboard work. "America" is a ten minute complete reworking of the Simon and Garfunkel original benefitting from Rick Wakeman's ivories and Steve Howe's fretwork. Latch on to this LP and find out what led up to the classic The Yes Album, before the music became too complex, the lyrics mired in mysticism and Yes drowned in their Topographic Ocean. Justin Hay ward and John Lodge Blue Jays (Derani): The Moody Blues have not released an album of new material since 1972, and have at least temporarily broken up. But Moodies mourners will take heart in this natural collaboration between Moodies' guitarists Hayward and Lodge (bass). Hayward and Lodge recruited Moodies producer Toney Clarke and also used the Peter Knight Orchestra, who appeared on the group's Days of Future Passed album. The result is that this is a Moodies LP, lacking only the five-part harmonies distinctive of the group as a whole. Hayward and Lodge contributed equally - in the songwriting area, and have combined their talents for the first time to co-author two tunes. One, "Remember Me" is especially memorable, along with "1 Dreamed Last Night." Soft, lush, mellotron-dominated and orchestrated, BlueJays will please most Moody Blues fans and perhaps make several new ones. Earth, Wind and Fire That's the Way of the World (Columbia): Although it suffers at times from over-production, this R&B disc makes it on pure musicianship. The album includes the hit single "Shining Star" but the best cut is the dynamic "Africano." Other good uptempo numbers like "Happy Feelin'" are complimented by ballads such as "All About Love," "Reasons" and the title track. On "Reasons," there is little resemblance to the usual output from this heavy nine-piece group, but the song could become the LP's next hit, a vocal wonder. Keith Jarrett Death and the Flower (ABC Impulse): Pianist Jarrett has released another sensually pleasant album that is also deeper and more spiritual than his previous recording, Treasure Island, and therefore more satisfying and representative of Jarrett's genius. A small group effort. Death and the Flower consists of only three songs. Although many of his fans were first attracted by his solo playing, Jarrett demonstrates his adeptness at responding to other musicians on this album. Charlie Haden's bass and Dewey Redman's sax playing are in turn excellent. lOcc The Original Soundtrack (Mercury): "I'm Not in Love," with its 256 voices dubbed, redubbed and looped will surely be remembered as one of the AM songs of the summer of 75. But the romantic coverup attempt is only one of the jewels on lOcc's third and most adventurous album. "Une Nuita Paris" (One Night in Paris) is an ambitious three-part tale that is as involved in its storyline as it is in its music. lOcc is one of the most humorous groups around, however, and their wit and intelligence has progressed along with their music. A stops out rocker, "The Second Sitting for the Last Supper" is an example of this cleverness in its knock on religion, and "Minestrone" is equally comical. Just as Sheet Music contained the self-degrading, dreary outlook of "(We're) The Worst Band in the World," their newest release expresses an equally pessimistic attitude in "Brand New Day." But its all in fun, and fun is what The Original Soundtrack is. The onfthew fa f travel Agency i o NCNB Plaza, Chapel Hill 967-2251 the i endangered species Featuring Live and Recorded Music DART ROOM, CHESS, CHECKERS, GO, BACKGAMMON BEER O SANDWICHES O SALADS THIS WEEKEND - Friday: 1 Frank Avent Saturday: SANTA! "iendling Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. NO COVER Open 4 p.m. Daily Happy Hour 4 to 9 300 West Rosemary Street Downstairs from Pizza Transit Authority and Quick Food Mart Shp latlg OJar Jht 83 years of editorial freedom With a new editor, a mostly-new staff and a brand new format, the Daily Tar Heel enters its 83rd year with a good deal of optimism. After a long summer of experimentation, we believe we have begun to develop the sort of newspaper that UNC students will be happy to read each morning. A new campus distribution system should make the paper more accessible to ail students, on campus and off. In fact, the only request we could possibly make of you, as students, is that you support the merchants kind enough to advertise with us, and that you let us know loud and clear each time we offend you. Welcome home. Have a good year. Read us. ) V- X vr: J L, i, 4 t 1 ( 1 i I u u u COPY Quality Copying Franklin & Columbia . (over The Zoom) 929-0170 Mon-Fri., 9-5 record. The Embers Club and Showcase in Raleigh are the only regular area beach music hangouts. Both offer a steady menu of Drifters, Tarns, Chairmen of the Board, etc. The Embers will open their season with the Tarns, then the Drifters, while the Showcase offers the Drifters, then Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, Nantucket, and Bill Deal and the Rondells. "We book beach music, top 40, soul and hard rock only by accident," says Embers booking agent John Tomlinson. Last year the Embers Club lured such well-known nightclub acts as Jerry Butler, Jackie Wilson, New York City and at regular intervals, the Embers. The Showcase brought the Classics IV, Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, and Archie Bell and the Drells to the Triangle. The Embers Club has a brown-bagging permit and therefore it requires membership. Membership for one year is $10. The cover on weekends is usually $7 or $8 per couple, but during the weekdays the cover is most often around S3 a couple. Women are admitted free on Wednesday nights. The Embers Club offers one of the most expansive and ritzy nightclub atmospheres in North Carolina. The Showcase, which has just installed a new, 48-speaker, $15,000 disco sound system, average a cover of approximately $3 for men and $1 for women. "There's nothing like this disco system on the East Coast," says owner Speedo J ordan. "We're going to have a real Northern disco set-up, real low-rkey, probably with a disc jockey from WKIX.'V "We're going to book Top 40 spiced with beach music just the stuff on the charts that's what the people want to hear." Charlie Goodnight's is another Raleigh bar that offers the Top 40 sound. Goodnight's kicks off the new season with Greenville's Band of Oz, an excellent group, and Razz-ma-tazz. Unlike the Embers and Showcase. Goodnight's caters almost exclusively to the college set. Goodnight's is known for a singles flavor and it offers one of the beit deals around for young ladies. On Thursday the first 200 ladies get in free and are given a beer card good for five free drafts. They also receive a "lucky lady" card that admits them free either Friday or Saturday night. Cover charges usually run $2 for men. Girls are admitted free Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and guys with ID's are only SI on Tuesday and Wednesday. Escaping the beach sounds and the strains of AM radio in Raleigh means taking the (Cameron) Village Subway to the Pier or Cafe Deja Vu. Both offer wine and dinner for the nightclub gourmet. . - Deja Vu opens the season with folk inger Lee Spears (no cover). Arrogance will appear for a weekend $2 cover charge. An employee characterizes Deja Vu music as "more often folk than not, sometimes jazz, rock and blues, and once in a while bluegrass." The Pier has brought such heavyweights to Raleigh as Earl Scruggs and John Hartford. The emphasis at the Pier is on bluegrass, folk and hard rock in the vein of Heartwood. The Pier opens with Super Grit Cowboy Band this week. Average cover is $2.50 per person. The Pier and Deja Vu offer Chapel Hill style folksiness in a class nightclub atmosphere. Both have brown-bagging permits. In Durham, night prowlers can find middle-of-the-road rock and Top 40 at Blueberry Hill. The Hill is housed in what was once one of Durham's finest restaurants so it is spacious and has a French prov incial sort of class. Blueberry Hill boasts a color television with a 4 and "A by 6 foot screen, the largest in the Carolinas, as well as pinball galore. Blueberry Hill is a private membership club offering mixers for the brow nbaggers in the crowd. Membership is less than five dollars. Average cover is around S2 or S3. (Related article on p. B-3 of Orientation section). Logos Bookstore Christian books, cards, gifts, fellowship. Located above Bfimpie's. Why Take Notes? n n l! Liza L-irX Enroll in TRIANGLE TRANSCRIBERS verbatim lecture transcript service. See the back page. Sect ion A for courses offered. fiay err top m tune M (GeC pi r. u rr-nn n n . o P U o r f
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