The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 19, 1976 Page: 3 of 6
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By RUTHANNE BROCKWAY
Daily Reporter
To the average college student, the
'50s rock 'n' roll nostalgia craze
probably is, or was, a passing fad, but
not to George Gimarc, Dallas
sophomore, and Andy Waldrop,
Houston junior.
The duo, both radio-TV majors, host
"Juke Box Saturday Night" on
Denton's KDNT-FM. The show
originally aired Saturday nights, but
because of NTSU Saturday night foot-
ball, was moved to 6 p.m. through mid-
night Tuesdays.
"When My Pimples Turn to
Dimples," "Wake Up Little Suzi,"
"Johnny Angel" and "Splish Splash"are
typical program fare.
THE PAIR'S combined collection of
6,000 singles and 1,100 albums provides
the program music. Their six-hour week-
ly program is made up entirely of
listeners' requests for rock tunes of 1952
through 1968.
At 19, Gimarc is too young to
remember the early days of rock, but
Waldrop, 24, said he remembers listen-
ing to rock radio in 1960 when he was 8-
years-old.
"George is a more avid collector,"
Waldrop said. In addition to singles and
albums, Gimarc also has juke box wall
units (those push-button music selectors
Outakes
Tuesday, October 19, 1976
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Photo by PAUL RAINWATER
Rock Around the Clock
George Gimarc, Dallas sophomore, is one of two NT students
who combine talents on Denton's KDNT-FM radio station each
Tuesday from 6 p.m. to midnight for "Juke Box Saturday Night."
Gimarc and Andy Waldrop, Houston junior, host the show.
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Js Rock With Golden Oldies
KDNT-FM Plays Up to Nostalgia Buffs
NT Pianist Performs Tonight
Resident pianist Stephan Bardas will
perform tonight at 8:15 in the Music
Recital Hall. Admission is free.
Bardas will play Mozart's "Sonata in
A Major," Busoni's "Six Etudes after
Paganini-Liszt" and Schubert's "Sonata
in A Major."
The etudes, to be played between the
sonatas, were originally written for
violin by Paganini and were later
transcribed for piano by Liszt. Bardas
will play Busoni's arrangements of the
pieces.
"Busoni brought these works closer to
the spirit of the Paganini originals,"
Bardas said. "Paganini was such a bril-
liant violinist that people thought he was
iri league with the devil when he played."
The etudes, which will end the portion
of the program prior to intermission,
end in a set of variations in the same key
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as those beginning the Mozart sonata.
The final piece is one of the last three
great sonatas by Schubert, said Bardas.
"For a long time Schubert has been
overshadowed by the impact of
Beethoven," he said.
BLACK COALITION
The Black Coalition will meet today
at 7:30 p.m. in University Union 4I3.
Anyone interested in participating in
Homecoming activities or who has ideas
for Black Emphasis Week may bring
them to the meeting, Dennis Oncal,
Houston sophomore, coalition president
said.
WIND ENSEMBLE
The Symphonic Wind Ensemble wil
present its first fall concert Wednesday
at 8:15 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall.
"The Symphonic Wind Ensemble is a
select wind group consisting of 55
players," Dr. Robert Winslow of the
music faculty said.
The ensemble will play "Symphony in
B Flat" by Hindemith "This is one of
the classics of wind band literature," Dr.
Winslow said.
The ensemble will also play "La
Procession du Rocio" by Turino, a
Spanish impressionist composer. Also
on the program is "Suite from
Bachianas, Brasileras No. 4" by South
American composer Villa-l.obos.
"Blue Lake," a contemporary work
written by Chance in commemoration of
the Blue Lake Band Camp in Michigan,
will also be performed.
BLUE KEY
Wednesday is application deadline for
Blue Key National Honor Socicty,
Denton senior John Reese, president,
said.
Applications are available at the
University Union reservations desk, he
said. Each applicant must be at least of
junior standing and be a member of at
least two campus organizations and an
officer in one, Reese said.
A formal smoker for members and ap-
plicants is set for 7 p.m. Sunday in the
Golden Eagle Suite in the Union, he
said.
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mounted in each booth of your favorite
malt shop, remember?). But his delight is
a I946 vintage juke box that plays 78s
and becomes a pulsating rainbow when
it plays. He has been offered SI,000 for
it, but said he's not interested in selling.
"Some of our listeners actually live in
the '50s," Rebekah Green, Dallas
freshman, who answers the request line,
said. She said one male fan wears a
greased hair style, white socks, loafers
and rolled blue jeans.
TRIVIA CONTESTS spice the
program.
Dowe, Hunt
To Conduct
Workshops
The Student Activities Union and the
Center for Instructional Services (CIS)
are sponsoring a videotape workshop to-
day and Wednesday in the Silver Eagle
Suite, University Union.
The program is presented through the
Video Research Center (VRC) at SMU
Dallas. David Dowe, VRC Director,
and Jerry Hunt, VRC co-director, will
run the workshop.
The program opens today at 10:30
a.m. for a general session. This will be an
introduction to video-audio synthesis. It
is open to faculty, students and the
public. Today at 2 p.m. there will be a
special interest session open only to art
majors. Then at 7 p.m. there will be
another general session where partici-
pants will be involved in producing
visuals and sounds.
On Wednesday, the workshop will
open at 10 a.m. with a special interest
session for music majors only. At I p.m.
there will be another special interest ses-
sion for art majors only.
At 7:30 p.m. Dowe and Hunt will pre-
sent "Kelly's Song/Sigaloeis,"a concert
experience for interactive audio and
video synthesizers, as described by the
CIS.
Dowe and Hunt have worked exten-
sively with video feedback, dance and
electronic animation since VRC was set
up in 1971. They have performed their
work with interactive and adaptive video
and audio synthesizers at universities in
the United States and Canada.
"Where was Elvis Presley born?"
produced a rash of calls, most of the
answers being either Memphis or
Nashville, but NTSU graduate student
Don Trahan of Denton correctly
answered Tupelo, Miss.
Listeners who may have regressed to
the complete mood of the '50s are jarred
back to reality when Gimarc and
Waldrop give birthday bulletins "James
Darrin is 40" or "Chubby Checker is
35."
"Collector's Corner" is the most pop-
ular feature of the show, Waldrop said.
Gimarc selects four or five songs, an-
nounces them and then plays all of them
without any narration. Many listeners
tape Collector's Corner for their own
music libraries, hence the name.
"JUKE BOX Saturday Night"
developed about a year ago. Gimarc and
Waldrop lived on the same floor at
Clark Hall, where they heard each
other's old rock tunes. Waldrop was a
disc jockey for KNTU-FM, and Gimarc
approached him with the idea of sharing
an "oldie show." Their idea went on the
air at KNTU in January, and in June
they moved their show to KDNT.
The program attracts 180 to 330 calls
per show from Denton, Dallas and its
suburbs, Lewisville and Arlington.
Waldrop said children usually request
novelty records ("It Was an Itsy, Bitsy,
Teeny, Weeny, Yellow Polka-Dot
Bikini") and adults sometimes request
songs their sons and daughters liked
when the offspring were teens.
Occasionally Gimarc and Waldrop
will dip into the '40s for a song, but this
is not their policy, and they have very
few recordings from that period. Their
theme song for Collector's Corner is a
1947 Tommy Dorsey orchestra tune
"Puddle Wump."
It was about two years ago that
Gimarc listened to his father's collection
of big band records of the 1930s and
1940s. He then developed an interest in
1950s music. He collects old recordings
from record warehouses and dis-
tributors, flea markets and friends.
Gimarc said it is easy to spot old rock
records by the names of the groups—
The Frogmen, Bill Haley and the
Comets and The Regents.
SOME OF the most valuable records
are those recorded before an artist or
group became famous. A recording of
"Happy Am I" by The Four Lovers is a
little known recording by the group that
later became The Four Seasons.
Elvis recordings on the Sun record
label in near mint condition can be
worth $300 each.
The most valuable recording in the
world, said Gimarc, is "My Bonnie," a
1962 single by Tony Sheridan and The
Beat Brothers on the Polydor label. The
back-up group, The Beat Brothers, later
became The Beatles. In near mint condi-
tion, that recording is valued at $1,000.
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