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By Loroy Williams
Gamecock Staff Writer
The setting for Beach Party 80
seemed to conjure up the image of
free-flowing sand, a rolling surf, a
vigorous volleyball game and
some beautiful bikini-clad girls.
Instead, there was popcorn,
colored lights, and empty beer
cans, leaving the Ballroom in
wreckage Thursday night.
The vast crowd, of more than one
thousand rowdy and intoxicated
people, was entertained by
Chairmen of the Board has
performance.
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By Janet Gibson
Making choices is what life is all,
maKe mese cnoices responsiDiy (
difference in the world.
This was the message a group
speech students demonstrated in J
most imaginative production
Longstreet Theatre Saturday morn
BOTH HUMOROUS and serio
eluded in the production which too
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The "test in five parts" inclu
ferences, religion, sex ("the lon^
ficult section of all"), death, and ol
The group of hard-working stud
production, which was aimed at
for most of the semester. Their hi
an excellent show.
Beth Meado ws, Wendell Glen
Scott Myerson on stage /',
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Chairmen of the Board, a Detroitrooted
group, for five solid hours
with some good old beach music
with a smattering of rhythm and
blues.
THROUGHOUT THE evening
the "Board," consisting of lead
singers "General" Johnson and
Danny Woods ? along with their
four piece backup band, put on a
highly energetic performance.
The crowd was jumping enthusiastically
as the band played
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"simpler." The
people laughing
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performed in that everyone is
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ents worked on the
14- to 18-year olds, McGarrigle
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scenes.
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such old hits from the early
seventies such as Stevie Wonder's
"If You Really Love Me," and
Clarence Carter's "Patches."
AS THE BAND played on, the
crowd continued to roll in. There
were even people oeing lurnea
away at the door, but those who did
enter the Ballroom consumed
more than 100 cases of beer.
It became Evident that the Board
used this 'happy' audience to their
advantage. They played for the
crowd, and even let some of the
audience dance on the stage.
Chairmen of the Board got its
start in 1969, and enjoyed great
popularity in the early seventies
with such chart hangers as
"Gimme Just a Little More Time,"
"Everything Is Tuesday," "Page
of the Piper," and "Dangling on a
String."
The group has experienced
numerous personnel changes over
the years, according to lead singer
Johnson. The present" band
members include Warren Moise on
keyboards, Jimmy Johnson on
drums, lead guitarist James
Hogan, and bassist Jackie Myers.
JOHNSON HAS seen his share of
success in the early years of the
first decade. His greatest
achievement came when Clarence
Carter recorded the song "Patches,"
written by Johnson which
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the best written song of 1970. It was
one of many chart records Johnson
and his groups had performed
during that time.
As the seventies plodded on, the
Chairmen of the Board faced
mounting contractual problems
and stayed out of the recording
nade east
jgh, however, not many persons in
re teen-agers. It didn't matter. The
of painful adolescence took an atback
to the days when life was much
acting and music certainly kept
luring much of the show.
;NE of hormones with the message
physically different arrived on stage
energy. Bill Juraschek and Teresa
high school students who find each
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low were nothing short of excellent.
f spoofs on well-known televisior
ere effective additions to the show
and Suzanne McCarrigle portrayec
Boone in a commercial for an acn<
sdication.
ater emerged as Sister Souffle wit!
dancing Ome-lettes (Melina Herring
and Beth Meadows), who tried thei
ge a group of somewhat gullible teen
Egg" and be converted to the fertil
mson then arrived as a preacher. H
the kids" to come with him and ente
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laugh and mannerisms in severa
E most effective scenes in Multipl
/ith the emotional trauma of teen-ag
this scene, Scott Myerson and Betl
outstanding.
how's success can be attributed to tin
I never-ending experimentation by th
nd director. Special credit is due t
ho wrote all the show's mnsip nnrl t.
Matthew Marholin. "The show wa
through improvisation," Drehersakl
keep the subject matter frank, but th
Finitely explored the many facets o
vith everything from loneliness, pre
and masturbation given attention
ow served another purpose. It was th
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e well on their final grades.
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clowns around with the crow
formance Thursday night.
studio for five years. Today the
group expects to begin recording in .
the near future, bringing with
them a new sound.
"WE WORK a lot of pop-oriented
music," Johnson said. "Some of it
is rhythm and blues, with just a
different flavor. It is not your
modern-day funk R&B."
Johnson's group plays what he
I calls modern-day-beach music,
i and adds, "We play it with
! energy."
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Tuesday night at 7:30 and 10.
Although he is better known for h
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d during their Ballroom perAlthough
some people in the
large crowd got somewhat 'unruly'
(to say the least) during the show,
this should have been expected
since there was free admission to
the event. However, the performance
given by Chairmen of
the Board far outshined any undesirable
antics that went on the
Ballroom floor. The Beach Party
80 was sponsored by Contemporary
Sounds. Special
Programs Committee and Greek
Week.
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? work off stage has been more
in's prime extramusical concern
ther Bill Ayres, a Catholic priest
issue as a natural political and
es and Chapin studied the hunger
ctively. The conclusion was that
*ies of meetings be&tin in Marrh
ion one year later of the World
r to the obvious question is every
acclaim from his audiences; but
e never seen an example of an
:h imagination to a civic cause,
:he feeling of many Washington