WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19,2002
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN =25
KU'S WATER BROKE
LAURIE SISK/KANSAN
Facilities Operation workers assess damage caused by a water main break in front of Blake Hall last night. Service to the Chancellor's House, Blake Hall, and two scholarship halls was disrupted because of the break, which flooded the parking area behind Blake Hall. Engineer Hubert Kettler, left, Randy Samuels, Facilities Operation associate director, and Sam Gunther, plumbing supervisor worked late into the night with their crews to correct the problem. Workers said this is the second break in about six to eight years in that location and was likely due to old pipes.
'Ralph's World' appeals to both young and old
The Associated Press
BERWYN, III. The lighting is dim and the bar carries the faint, stale smell of beer. But Ralph Covert is looking fresh and ready to rock and roll.
So are his young fans — some so young they've just risen from an afternoon nap before cramming with their parents into FitzGerald's, a popular music venue in suburban Chicago that usually caters to the older set.
With Ralph's World — a whirlwind of songs, dancing and general silliness — Covert is distinguishing himself as a singer-songwriter who's found a magic formula: His music appeals to kids and their parents.
"I was lousy at being a mild nursery school teacher," says Covert, a longtime Chicago rocker who developed his latest repertoire while teaching classes for kids at the Oldtown School of Folk Music.
"The more I brought my rock 'n' roll energy to it, the more parents had fun, the kids had fun — and the more I had fun," said Covert, whose albums include both originals and revamped cover songs.
One song from the first Ralph's World CD combines the popular KC & the Sunshine Band tunes "Get Down Tonight" and
"Shake Your Booty"—though with a few lyric changes.
Another tune on the disc features the line "M-o-m-m-y needs c-o-f-f-e-e." And Covert calls yet another track the "Quentin Tarantino version of the 'Itsy Bitsy Spider,'" because it features a multitattooed arachnid.
His second album, released this spring, features a reworked rendition of the Robert Leroy Johnson blues song "Dust My Broom"—renamed "Clean My Room."
"Do a little dance. Make a little love," for example, becomes "Eat a little lunch. Take a little nap."
Billboard magazine called his debut CD "One of the finest kids' audio releases of this or any year." And reviews for his latest disc have been as glowing, as Covert hits the summer concert circuit.
The combination of adult and kid humor, packaged in catchy tunes, is getting Covert noticed.
"It beats the heck out of some of the same old mundane stuff that's out there for kids," says Debbie Sanders, a mom from Bolingbrook, Ill., who brought 6-year-old daughter Samantha to the concert.
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