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Ballad Guitarist Prefers To Write His Own Songs
"I can't stand the words in most popular music—"
These words came from Jim McMullan, Long Beach, N.Y., senior, whose first record, "I Get So Jealous," was a best-seller in Lawrence last spring.
McMullan specializes in writing ballads.
"The music of ballads is simple, so the words are important," McMullan said.
Must Be Sensitive
"They have to be sensitive to be effective.
"I can hardly stand the words in most popular music. I don't really see how anybody can stand them," he commented.
"When I write songs, I work on socially-conscious type things," McMullan said.
He writes his songs as poems.
"I don't really like my first record because the words aren't mine. Somebody else wrote the song...I just sang it."
"I've never had any'lessons," he said. "I just bought a book and learned the chords."
He sets the ballads he writes to his own guitar arrangements.
Never Took Lessons
McMullan plays a guitar as he sings. He has played guitar only three years.
McMullan is an engineering student, but his break into the recording business came from his style of singing.
With his feet propped up on his desk and aimlessly strumming his guitar, McMullan told how he happened to cut his first record.
"I tape-recorded a couple of songs for my mother last year," he related. "She gave them to a friend who knew an agent at Warner Brothers.
"The agent asked to audition—sang and he gave me a five-year contract."
"We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best." — Anatole France.
"I still don't know what I want to do most," he said.
and has his start in a musical career, he still isn't sure what he will do after graduation.
During Thanksgiving vacation McMullan will cut a number of records selected by his manager.
Although McMullan has nearly completed his engineering degree
James McMullan
Students Here for Seminar
A. B. Leonard, professor of zoology, will speak on "Problems of the Ice Ages," in Snow Hall at 7 p.m.
Twenty-five outstanding students from Topeka junior and senior high schools will be guests of the university at a science seminar tonight.
Before Prof. Leonard's lecture, the students will be guests at a dinner in the Kansas Union at 5:45 p.m. Topeka High School graduates who are on the "gifted student plan" will answer questions.
The seminar is the first in a series during which they will be exposed to science lectures and urged to take an interest in science projects.
Tuesday. November 10, 1959 University Daily Kansan
Speech Defects Are Corrected at Clinic
An average of 35 to 40 students a year need help with speech difficulties. They find a helpful and understanding staff ready to aid them.
Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech, and Dr. Joel Wurster, KU Medical Center, represent the speech department and health service which cooperate to help students with deficient speech and hearing.
Examinations Show Defects
Physical examinations taken by entering freshmen and new students uncover speech deficiencies. Imperfect speech is defined as that which may constitute a handicap, Miss Anderson said. She said the following three points are considered:
1. Speech that makes the student uncomfortable in day-to-dav speech situations.
2. Speech which prevents a student from taking part in class recitation.
3. Speech which may be a liability in the chosen profession of the student.
Therapy continues as long as a student needs help — sometimes as long as two or three years, Miss Anderson said;
Students with deficient speech may talk over their difficulties with Miss Anderson and decide if they want to take therapy. Sessions are worked out at a convenient time. A student attends a half hour session once a week.
There is no charge and no credit for the clinic sessions.
PINNER, England — (UPI) — None of the bridesmaids caught the bride's bouquet at a wedding here yesterday. A horse ate it.
Horse Eats Bridal Bouquet
Air hostess Sallie Atden, 22,
brought her pet horse Chico to her
wedding to Bryan Murphy, 22. After
the wedding they pinned a rose on
Chico and then fed him the rest of
the bouquet.
Began in 1941
The speech program, which began in 1941, has always had a medical consultant. Students are referred to the doctor for examinations. Psychiatric help, special surgery and medications often help correct speech problems, Miss Anderson said.
"We feel that the examinations are very important. We don't want to take chances." she said.
Mrs. Martha F. Lawrence, Lawrence, and Jean L. Elson, Paola, graduate students in speech correction, assist Miss Anderson.
Dr. Wurst spends one afternoon a week here with speech and hearing patients. An ear, nose and throat specialist. Dr. Wurst examines nose and throat cavities for abnormal growths and obstructions.
Dr. Wurster said:
"Hearing is important in the reproduction of sound. You have to be able to hear in order to speak correctly."
Architecture Films Slated
Two films dealing with architecture will be shown Wednesday at 4 p.m. as a part of the Bailey film series.
The two films selected for viewing this week in 3 Bailey Hall are "Architecture U.S.A." and "A Place to Worship." Both are in color.
The first film shows the trend in present day residential and industrial design in the United States, while the second film demonstrates church architecture.
The late Frank Lloyd Wright explains some of the principles he considered important in designing a church.
"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them."—Anatole France.
DID YOU MISS THE LAST ONE FOR SOME REASON?
Well Don't Worry,There's Going to Be Another!!
PEP RALLY - BONFIRE - DANCE
A Motorcade will start from G.S.P. at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, will pass every house on the hill and proceed to TEMPLIN HALL for the rip-roaring BONFIRE. After the flames die down, there will be a dance in the Main Lounge, featuring Al Thompson and The Sounds.
- It's All Free -
EVERYONE COME—THURSDAY, NOV.12 AT 7 P.M.