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...write the Book of Love? The Monotones first asked this penetrating question in 1958, and no one has yet come up with the answer. Today Sha Na Na is asking the very same question on its first album. Sha Na Na Is Here...
...charts at the end of 1969 with a tune about happiness. Rick Nelson grew his hair and made a hit out of "She Belongs to Me." and the Every Brothers started making it big on television shows. Dion reappeared, but he copped out and sang about issues. Now Sha Na Na. the care of the revival, has put out an album to further feed the flames of greasy hysteria...
...Sha Na Na's ten musicians mostly students at Columbia, reject the new spirit of profit-making to which today's other rock groups have succumbed. For your basic album cost, you receive 14 tracks, a fold-out section of old newspaper articles on Alan Freed Spectaculars and rock 'n' roll riots, and pictures of the group in flashy gold suits, engineer boots, and tee shirts with the cigarettes rolled up in the sleeves. Everything is authentic, right down to the grease...
...Sha Na Na has picked one of its best selections as the first song, realizing the psychological benefits of a good start. And one of the reasons that it can be considered such a good trick is that Sha Na Na has succeeded in closely imitating the Eals. That is the object. When Jay and the Americans record an old time, they try to give it that Jay and the American sound. This invariably worsens the original...
Violence has reached such a peak in the Danang area that lights have been installed on the streets of Cap Tien Sha to curb roving bands of white and black sailors who were attacking each other at night. At Dong Tam in the Delta and Dien Hoa north of Saigon, bands of black soldiers still waylay whites. A white officer in Danang was critically injured when a black Marine rolled a grenade under his headquarters. At the officer's side was a black sergeant with a reputation for not tolerating Afro haircuts and Black Power salutes...