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Talent Show Scores Big Bash with Camp
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Monday, August 23 – Tonight, North Woods
finally got a chance to exhibit its talented ones before the rest of the
camp. The occasion was the second, and by far the biggest show of its type
of the camp season. Almost every type of music and every phase of
entertainment was represented here.
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The show got off to a fine start, as Tuck Aiken, a vastly
underrated young man musically, proved himself and excellent classical
pianist, as he held the audience spellbound with his version of
Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.” He was immediately followed by North
Woods’ answer to Richard Hayman, Kent Campbell, playing
“Zing-zing, Zoom-zoom,” and “Give Me your Tired, your Poor,” on
the harmonica, and turning in a really moving version.
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After Walt Parkinson had rocked the hall with his hilarious
“Magic Chef” act, Jim Sudhalter really went ripping through the
“12th Street Rag” on alto sax. Following this came one of
the pleasant surprises of the program. Little Lennie Muellner
fairly astonished everyone with an expert tap-dance display to “Take the A
Train.”
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Following this, Billy Mears, trumpet-in-hand, swung mightily
through “Cross over the Bridge,” and Chuck Oliver provided and
was in turn carried away by a moving, and educational narration of the
Conquest of K2. Not only was Chuck carried away by this, but so was his
audience, entranced by the grandeur of the mountains. Then Joe Rivera,
to the strains of “Que Rico el Mambo,” danced his way into a frenzy,
and sent the temperature soaring up at least 20 degrees.
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The “final stroke,” so to speak, was delivered by the celebrated North
Woods all-star Stompers, as they set the entire hall into a mad frenzy of
stomping and rocking to “Crazy Rhythm,” “Undecided,”
“Five-foot-two,” and ending up with a riotous, wildly-swinging
“Saints Go Marching In.” The band consisted of Dick Sudhalter
on trumpet, brother Jim on alto sax, Don Keaney on clarinet, John
Trump at the piano, and Doug Wax on trap plus Mark Robinson
on a self-constructed bass.
All in all, this was a very
successful show,
and was enjoyed by all.
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