From the start, Jubilee was intended to be more inclusive, relatively speaking for the South at that time. Jubilee was in one sense an answer to the Germans, big cotillion-styled dances sponsored by an interfraternity system that was not open to all students in the first half of the 20th century. What came later - a jazz big band on a Saturday afternoon smaller bands, known as combos, at late-night parties and films featuring Liz Taylor and Sophia Loren on indoor big screens - was, by comparison, cutting loose. The Four Preps headlined the first Jubilee before a crowd of about 4,000, capping a school year when some of the Union’s big attractions were a hypnotist named Hypnorama and Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain. But before gravity grabbed hold, it was one hell of a ride.ġ963: The Four Preps (Capitol Records/MCA) Like that hot-air balloon that kicked off the 1969 festival, Jubilee fell back to earth. It was all the excesses that accumulated over those nine years alongside so many colliding happenings in America - rock music and the festivals, drugs, peace, love, protest, the Vietnam War and the establishment’s responses to them all - that ultimately doomed Jubilee. It wasn’t even the trampled security guard, or Pacific Gas & Electric getting arrested on stage, or the Allman Brothers’ cocaine. It wasn’t even the hot-air balloon ride that a Wizard of Oz look-a-like crash-landed in University Lake, or the woman injured on the Whirly-bird ride, or the straw bales and foam rubber lit on fire. (See below for more on Black’s Jubilee memories.)
It wasn’t that Chapel Hill sold out of brownie mix, forcing future comedian Lewis Black ’70 to make pot pudding instead of pot brownies. It wasn’t just a circus animal or Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen that signaled Jubilee’s end. And, following the last, “The rock festival phenomenon is dying at last,” Rod Waldorf ’71 wrote in The Daily Tar Heel. Jubilee’s epitaph was being chiseled from that first spring. Fortunately, there are archives to aid memory. Mind-bendingly fun and sometimes chaotic details.īut also a couple of not-so-fun ones. Once an elephant appeared and Joe Cocker melted Kenan Stadium in 1970, Jubilee’s days likely were numbered.
Half a century later though, at least one thing is clear: Jubilee ended on a note so high it required no encore, as it seemed destined to do. It’s little wonder why some had to place lost-and-found ads afterward for their puppies (part Collie), kittens (calico-Siamese mix) and cameras (Kodak, 35 mm). But also, well, some of you probably had, let’s say, too much fun on those fields to conjure too many of the particulars. When it comes to the three-day outdoor music festival called Jubilee that was held on Carolina’s campus each spring from 1963 to 1971, plenty of reasons for both exist after 50 years.įor one, that historic period in the United States came into better focus as the decades passed. Whenever hindsight travels through enough time, objects may appear both hazier and clearer. One of Carolina’s - from Chuck Berry to Johnny Cash to Joe Cocker - was an unforgettable Jubilee. JAmerica crossed many cultural bridges between 19.
LEND ME YOUR EARS AND I LL SING YOU A SONG TV
It is a fantastic version and perhaps the best introduction song to a TV show ever: The great Wonder Years.Lend Me Your Ears and I’ll Sing You a Song He is saying that he needs help from his friends because that is part of the human condition. Whereas the The Beatles version feels like a collective effort, Cocker’s sounds lonelier. Joe Cocker’s cover of the song because it borderline surpasses the original. The background sings the questions, “Would you believe in a love in first sight?” And Ringo answers, “Yes, I’m certain that it happens all the time.” That is a nice structure for the bridge that continues into the chorus…”Do you need anybody?” “I just need someone to love”… The song sounds simple due to the lack of variety in Ringos voice, but the song is actually very well written. The song’s structure is a serious of questions and answers that make for a unique song and experience.
They let Ringo sing lead on it and he performs admirably…or at least it works well for this song. “With A Little Help From My Friends” is a Joe Cocker classic written by the Beatles.
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