Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman at Columbia, he became involved in an extracurricular singing group called the Columbia Kingsmen which specialized in pop songs like "Goin' Out of My Head." Through a connection, the group was able to arrange an audience with an agent from Mercury Records at a school concert...
...older brother of one of the Kingsmen suggested that the group dress 50's style for the concert and, without telling the group, distributed handbills which read, "So you think you're an Ivy Leaguer? Bullshit. Underneath your button-down shirt is the eighth grade greaser standing on the corner, whistling 'Duke of Earl' to yourself and watching the girls go by. Come down to Ferris Booth Hall where the Kingsmen will be reliving the old days. Come dressed...
Right after the concert, in the streets and bars around Columbia, the effect of the concert was apparent. Joffe recalls stepping outside and seeing "a big group of people with their arms around each other. About half of them were SDS'ers and the other half were jocks. These people had not walked on the same side of the street in a year because this was the year after the big riots at Columbia... when I walked down Broadway, on every street corner, there were groups of people singing Oldies. And, if you went to any of the bars...
...want to catch Kern one more time before he disappears forever, I suggest you hurry-up-and-buy-tickets to the Elvis Costello/Nick Lowe/Mink DeVille concert, which will be at the Orpheum on May 4. I'll be there, as will be 2000 other smart people, including Kern (who wasn't at the Patti Smith/Ian Dury concert, and boy was that a mistake...
Tuesday, April 11: Concert--Beethoven String Quartets, fourth in a series, performed by the Concord String Quartet...