The other nine members of the group slide out on their own grease. The three lead singers slouch on stage in gold lame suits. and, now, Sha-Na-Na.Ī brilliantly crystallized dream from the past, Sha-Na-Na is eleven undergraduates from Columbia and a twelfth from Brooklyn College, managed, not surprisingly, by the originator of Columbia’s trivia craze. Then there is, maybe yes, more than campy nostalgia in the revival of simplistic rock from groups such as Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Wild Thing, N.R.B.Q.

–that popular music turned cold and threatening, demanding introverted performance and response, during the Johnson/Vietnam-scarred years– –that the Beatles, with their vigor, dry wit and flopping hair, evoked maniacal response immediately following the assassination of John Kennedy –that rhythm and blues reached a mass white audience simultaneously with the civil rights movement If rock and roll is art and, like all art, is a refraction of all the events affecting all of us: and if it follows