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^ R E D l U N l V E R S r r y ^ ; g r U D E f l T l N E W S P A P E R • S I N C E 1 9 1 3 1 Vol. 54, No. 8 ALFRED, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 11, 1966 Phone 587-5402
TIME magazine in its music section of 28 October considered three popular music groups w eh© new 'sound. (N-o longer will -earldimmis be fractured .by the decibels of the "big beat" gener- ation. The trend, they amply, h a s clearly changed.
For example, even the Beatles Who capitalized oil noise have
•changed. Their ¡song "Eleanor Rigby" i s relatively quiet and is accompanied by two string quartets.
One of (the most "literate" of the new groups, a s TIME puts it, i s Simon and Garfunkel. They have sold more 'than 6,000,000 (records in the past year.
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel aire from the ¡New York metro- politan area. Simon i s the song [writer for the ©roup and although he does not claim that his songs
•convey any "'big" message, he (does' admit, however .that they lare written to ask questions and
raise doubtls. Most of the .songs examine man's inability to com- municate with 'his fellow crea- tures. Their .extremely (popular
"The 'Sounds of iSilence" dwells on this theme: "peoiple talking without sipeaking—hearing with-
out listening/' Certainly this is one of the characteristics of our times.
The song also isitroduce® the idea of man'® inherent (fear to disturb the .status quo or, for that matter, t o "take my a r m s that I imight (reach yon." ¡Now, whether this i s related t o man's mew trend t o forsake h i s fellow man, i s not certain; Garfunkel leaves the passage open for interpreta- tion.
Airt Garfunkel, the other mem- ber of (the group, ¿s a graduates student a t Columbia University-
He feels that popular music " i s the most y i b a n t force in m u s i c today." He compares the m u s i e to dope in the sense that it isi
"heady and alive."
Simon and Giarfunkel recorcii for Columbia (Records. Their al>~
ibum "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." h a s both old stondard folk tones', as well as some new one®
by songwriter Simon.
Among the older ones are "Go»
Tell I t on t h e (Mountain," a n d
"The Times Are A-Changiin'." B e - sides "The (Sound© of Silence"
the Simon written songfe include»
"He Was My Brother," "Spar- row," "Bleecker Street," as w e l l as t h e title isong "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.iM."
The concert, I then, (should her the secen of some "exciting n e w sounds in the folk tradition b y Simon and Garfunkel."
Calendar of Events
Friday, 11 November At The Beacon; Bobby Corn- stock and The 'Counts, .9 P.M. - 1 AM.
Saturday, 12 Nove.mber Concent at Alumni Hall featur- ing Slimon and Giarfunkel a n d Hendra and Ullebt, a-4 P.M.
Sorority women (with d a t e s wishing to .attend fraternity (par- ties must -contact the social chairman of ithe ¡particular house.
Sorority women with fresh mai*
dates are excluded.
Comedians Hendra & Ullett to perform
were Iboth b o m in Uondon dur-_ —«-«s isrs.-: sn a s ¡»«as
ing the blitz, a sure sign of what uras in store for (this madcap tlwosome.
Tony Hendra and Nic UU'lett, Iboth in their earty itwenties, came t o (the U.S. dm 1964 and in only two years have .played a t most of the top d u b s across -the coun- try and have been gueste on ma- ny of ithe major television (shows.
These show® have Included mul- tiple appearances on the Ed Sul- livan Show, Merv Griffin Show, Jack Paar Show, Johnny -Carson's Tonight Show, Carol Burnett's
"Entertainers," Hullalbaloo, and t h e Mike Douglas Show.
Their first -UjS. club appear- ance was a weefk afflter they ar- rived here, when they .booked a t New YoTikls 'Cafe Au Go Go with tLenny Bruce. Since 'then they (have scored heavily in appear- ances a t Basin Street East, The Village Gate, New Orleans.* Play-
San Francisco's Hungry i, and Mr. Kelley'® in (Chicago.
• Their club appearances here have elicited great comments from t h e critics from coast to coast, HendTa and Ullett have
•been called "Uproarious" (Hous- ton Chronicle), "Riotously fun- ny" (San Francisco Chronicle),
"Original and (clever . . . after 26 minutes of hilarity the audi- ence was barely hanging on gasping" (San Francisco Exam- iner), "Fresh and clever" (Wash- ington Post) and "A wildly com- ic pair . . . refreshing and ex- ceedingly clever . . . no limits t o their lunacy" (Washington ¡Daily Neiws).
In addition t o (their club ap- pearances, Tony Hendra and Nick Ullett toured with t h e Ser- endipity Singers as representa- tives of the Ford Motor Com- pany with "The Forld 'Caravan of Music."
and dark, thin Nic Ullett first met when they were 'both under- graduates a t Cambridge Univer- sity. The former majored in medi- eval English literature while the latter concentrated in both ¡Eng- lish literature and history.
Both boys are members of
"Footlights," t h e undergraduate
is more than a century old and is devoted t o humor. Tony and Nic first appeared .together pro- fessionally a t London's T h e Blue Angel. They also played at T h e Establishment and o n several lo- cal TV shows before coming to the States.
Columbia Records recently re-
Ullett, entitled "To IBe or Not T o Be, Babe." They will also be r e - cording an album, t o b e entitled
"Joke Rock." <
As w a s the casé of Simon anJd Garfunkel, Hendra and Ultóttt were featured in TIME magazine.
The comedians' story appears I n the latest issue.
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