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Tuesday, October 3, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Beatle Proteges' Records Vary in Style and Talent
By JOE ZANATTA
Kansan Reviews Editor
The splinters of the Beatles continue to produce records, and as the foursome darts farther apart they enrich the quality of releases drops.
Elephants Memory is the band that has been backing John Lennon on his latest records. The group now has their own release, "Elephants Memory" (Apple), released by Lennon and Yoko Ono.
The album is a mixture of rock 'n' roll styles. It lays heavily on guitar and drum melodies, lyrics from more contemporary sources. Lennon plays guitar and mandolin, with vocals, but stays well into the shadows, giving the spotlight to the drummer.
The result is a final product that is, at best, mediocre. The album suffers from poor performances, poor material and sloppy recording techniques.
"WIND BRIDGE," the best cut on the album, is the only song that sounds as if it has been influenced by Lennon. The band members through the remainder of the songs displaying their lack of talent.
"Elephants Memory" proves that talent is only secondary in the music business—it's whom you know that counts.
Another new release,
'Brother' (Apple) by Lon and
Jerrek Van Eaton, features help
to two Beatles.
George Harrison is listed as a producer and Ringo Shar play a part in many of his songs, but are better than one. "Brother" easily increases the offering by 15%.
The Van Eaton's main problem it's trying to find a single type of music to settle on. "Brothers" rhythm and blues, hard rock, soft ock, honey tonk rockers and a ew cuts that sound as if they
"SUNSHINE" and "More than we are, are two of the better cuts on the major material than the majority of the material on 'Brothers,' and they seem to be."
were made by the masters themselves—the Beatles.
This album, like "Elephants Memory," could have been recorded better, and it lacks good material on the whole. But the Eagles' song "Come with Me" for the Van Eaton and hopefully will lead to better releases.
The album features Hopkins's biggest hit, "Those Were the Days," along with "Que Sera Marhour" and "Goodbye."
Mary Hopkin, discovered and produced by Paul McCentry, has released a best-of album, called "Those Were the Days."
It's a well produced album with
the material and the soft, sweet
material used in the new releases by Beatle-
discovered pianist Bobbin
Hopkin — most notably the most luscious.
For the next two weekends, the University Theatre will be transformed into Berla's Kit Kat Room and the "sensation of the musical" "Cabaret."
By DAVID HEALY
Kansas Staff Writer
Parallel Love Affairs Mark 'Cabaret' Plot
The play, which is jointly produced by the University of Kansas Theatre and the University of New York from the recent movie version, according to Jack Brooking, professor of drama and director of
The movie was concerned only with the romance between the young lovers, Sally Bowies and Chris, he said, but the play includes a parallel plot of a romance between Fraudine and Jane Tucker, a lady, and a middle-aged, Jewish lover. Herr Schultz.
BROOKING said the play had
more musical numbers than the movie because of the parallel storylines in Schneider's songs, "So What" and "What Would You Do? As"
He said the play, like the movie, would emphasize lecadence and anarchism.
"We view it as people trying to live out their lives on the brink of a deluge," Brooking said.
The play will begin and end with a mixed-media representation of Berlin's life out of Berlin that includes the use of a film made this summer by Centron Corporation and the KU Children of Child Research, he said.
In order to provide a cabaret atmosphere, 14 audience members can rent an bus buy tickets to sit in tickets on the lower stage level.
SENIOR PICTURES
for 1973 Jayhawker will be taken Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Browsing Room, first floor of the Kansas Union. Watch for other dates later.
Judge Hopefuls To Be Guests At Luncheon
Flu shots will be given free of charge to students at two campus locations Oct. 11, Dr Raymond Starr and Dr. Raymond of health services said Monday.
Flu Shots Now Given for Free
A nurse will be on duty at the south lobby entrance of the Kansas University during the morning hours and at McColm Hall Friday.
Forrest Swall assistant professor of the School of Social Work at Douglas County Committee on Correctional Services and Jail Administration.
Mike Elwell, Douglas County attorney, and Herman Reed, both Chennai residents, probate judge, will be guests at a luncheon of the League of Women Voters at 12:45 p.m. Thursday in Rockefeller University of the Kansas Union.
Free flu shots are available to students upon request at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
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"First shots for the fall fiu season should be taken now," Schwegel said. "No major issue. But some flu is always present."
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1972 FALL ELECTION INFORMATION
Petitions for the Following Student Senate Offices are Now Available in the Student Senate Office through October 6:
FRESHMAN CLASS OFFICERS
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
THOSE AS THE RESULT OF VACANCY:
Graduate School 3
Fine Arts 1
Social Welfare 1
Education 1
LAS 1
COLLEGE SEATS TO BE ELECTED
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A candidate for the STUDENT SENATE must file a declaration of intention to seek such office as a representative from his respective school with the secretary or elections committee chairman of the Student Senate by noon Friday, October 6. This declaration must be accompanied by a $5.00 filing fee.
Candidates for CLASS OFFICERS must file a declaration of intention to seek such office with the secretary or elections committee chairman of the Student Senate by noon Friday, October 6. Each declaration must be supported by the signatures of at least 50 members of the appropriate class and must be accompanied by a $5.00 filing fee.