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J CPU's Contemporary Sounds will
present some interesting shows in the
next few weeks beginning with John
Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Friday, Oct. 26.
With their latest album, the soundtrack
from the film "Eddie and the
Cruisers," at number 10 on the
billboard album chart, this concert
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B I campus.
1 There really never has been a similar
I chain of events in the annals of
I popular music. A band spends a
decade on the road, honing its cratt
and building a terrific reputation for
| live performance, without ever landing
j a record contract.
THFY DO a soundtrack album
primarily as a way to finally get on
vinyl, and then 'hey have to watch actors
'play' their own musical roles in
the movie. The movie's a dud at the
box office and does not help the album
sell.
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name of its own. Cut to 1984; the band
makes its own album and just before
it's scheduled for release, the movie
( goes on cable television and record
I stores are deluged with requests for the
year old soundtrack album,
j People learn the name 'Eddie And
The Cruisers.' People start to learn the
name John Cafferty And The Beaver
Brown Band.
1 "I REMEMBER one summer we
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singer songwriter John Cafferty,
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Five of the current members were on
hand when Beaver Brown was formed
eleven years ago in Naragansett,
Rhode Island, a beach town across
from Newport. Playing in a Top 40
cover band, Cafferty and Kenny Jo
Silva wanted to perform older rock
and roll songs ;they got a batch of
friends--all band leaders in their own
right-and started Beaver Brown.
Their reportoire was long on Wilson
Pickett and Fats Domino, Chuck
Berry and Elvis Presley and Mitch
Ryder.
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after the energy of the J. Geils Band,"
Cafferty said. "Every song was about
90 miles an hour. For the first three
years we were together, I don't think
we even knew a slow song."
A IN IMMEDIATE hit with the college
kids in Naragansett, the band
shared a nine-bedroom house by the
beach and slowly widened their
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"We played every bar we could play
in Rhode Island for a long time," Cafferty
said. "Then we branched out to
Cape Cod and Boston, and basically
just stayed around that area for four
years. Finally, we got a job in New
Haven, Connecticut. Somebody saw
us there and said, 'Hey, you should
play in Asbury Park, because they've
got bands doing the same stuff you
do.' From New Jersey we went to New
York, then Philidelphia, Maryland
and Virginia."
When the film "Eddie And The
Cruisers" broke on cable television
this past summer, the Beaver Brown
Band was suddenly successful. Within
one week of its July 7 HBO launching,
the movie exposure had generated sales
for 23,000 additional soundtracks.
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"On The Dark Side" is finally in the
top ten, and the follow up single
"Tender Years" promises to be a big
hit as well.
CONTEMPORARY SOUNDS also
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Light Rock Concert. This unique,
three dimensional laser concert experience
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Gene Gotten, famous vocalist, will
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the ballroom. Gotten has released
seven albums and has had as many hit
singles reach the top ten including the
hit "Like A Sunday In Salem," which
held the number two spot on the national
FM charts for more than two
months.Tickets are $3 for USC
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dealers from all over the southeast will
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related items. Tickets are SI for
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to do in the next few weeks, CPU's
Contemporary Sounds is offering a lot
of great entertainment for a minimal
price. Try it out.
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