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SHA NA NA’s Jocko Marcellino Up Next on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM
SHA NA NA's Jocko Marcellino Talks Woodstock & Grease on Tom Needham's SOUNDS OF FILM
SHA NA NA celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2020 as well as the 50th anniversary of The WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL appearing at the original site in BETHEL N.Y.
Rock & Roll doo-wop legends, SHA NA NA combined their love for the classics of rock & roll with a dynamic theatrical approach as fellow college students at Columbia University in New York. In 1969 they appeared just before Jimi Hendrix (who help get them the gig) at The Woodstock Festival in their eighth professional show.
The band rose to stardom with four seasons of their own worldwide television series, The Sha Na Na Show and their portrayal of Johnny Casino and the Gamblers in the movie Grease (the highest grossing musical film of all-time). Sha Na Na performed six songs on the Grease soundtrack and the song “Sandy,” sung by John Travolta, was co-written by the band’s piano man Screamin’ Scott Simon.
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Sha Na Na, as fellow college students at Columbia University in New York in 1969 combined their love for the classics of Rock & Roll with a dynamic theatrical approach. The fifties music legends appeared just before Jimi Hendrix 44 years ago this summer at The Woodstock Festival in their eighth professional gig, (of course the check bounced). They had four seasons of their own worldwide television series, “The Sha Na Na Show”, and are now set to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the movie Grease in which they co-starred along with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Twenty years after Woodstock, Sha Na Na once again appeared on stage at "Woodstock: Twenty Years After" along with other veterans of the original festival. Sha Na Na’s “20 Years After Woodstock” is now available on DVD and CD.
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About the The Sounds of Film
‘The Sounds of Film’ is the nation’s longest running film and music themed radio show. For the past 30 years, the program has delivered a popular mix of interviews and music to listeners all over Long Island,NY, parts of Connecticut and streaming live worldwide on the internet. Past interviewees include Chuck D., the Weather Underground’s Bill Ayers, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Michael Moore, Kurtis Blow, the Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel, Laurie Anderson, Mike Leigh, Rob Reiner, and Cornel West.
Worldwide listeners of THE SOUNDS OF FILM can tune into the internet livestream on Thursday at 6 pm EST at wusb.fm.
