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Title - Woodstock: 20 Years After [CD / DVD]
Artist - Sha Na Na

For those not in the know, Sha Na Na, the popular 1950s revival group which has sold over 20 million records and starred in its own syndicated television series, was one of the performers at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival.

Twenty years later, Sha Na Na joined original fellow musicians for the Woodstock: 20 Years After concert held 3,000 miles away at Cal-State Dominguez Hills in Carson, California on August 20th, 1989.

This 1989 performance from Sha Na Na is scheduled for release on CD, DVD and digital on August 5th, 2022 via Liberation Hall.

1. Rock Around the Clock
2. Tossin’ and Turnin’
3. The Stroll
4. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
5. High School Confidential / At the Hop
6. Let’s Dance
7. Queen of the Hop
8. Save the Last Dance for Me
9. Chantilly Lace
10. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
11. You Can’t Sit Down
12. Blueberry Hill
13. Tequila
14. Hit the Road Jack
15. Tonite, Tonite
16. In the Still of the Night
17. Get a Job
18. Oh Lonesome Me
19. Promised Land
20. Introducing the Band
21. Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay
22. Goodnight My Love
23. Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite

Opening on the vibrant, yet short duo of Rock Around the Clock and the swinging rhythms of Tossin’ and Turnin,’ they are followed by a low slung The Stroll, a rampant Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On, the hoppin’ and a boppin’ of the blended High School Confidential / At the Hop, the once organ-infused (now guitar-revved) version of Chris Montez’s twister Let’s Dance, the finger-snapping, one-minute long Queen of the Hop, a warm and tender version of Save the Last Dance for Me, and then comes an upbeat and gently frenetic Chantilly Lace, a powerful You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ and then a fervent You Can’t Sit Down.

Up next is the thrill of Blueberry Hill and the urgency of chords within the beloved instrumental Tequila and they are in turn backed by the groovy Hit the Road Jack, the street corner do-wop of Tonite, Tonite, the soulful In the Still of the Night, more do-wop in the form of a .38 second instrumental snippet of Get a Job, the countrified Oh Lonesome Me, a pulsating rendition of Promised Land, and then after intro’ing the band (for nearly three minutes), they bring the recording to a close by saying they have one last thing to say, which is that Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay, before the encore provides us with two goodbye tracks in the form of the laid back hipsway of both Goodnight My Love and Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite.

Whether it be the CD you are listening to or the music and visuals coming from your TV via the DVD, this live show is performed by a highly-spirited and genuinely heartfelt group of guys that know their target audience is having as much fun as they themselves are!

There is just so many on-going, and still choreographed (to a point) dance routines on display along with impassioned vocals performances, shiny attire, and, of course, some electrifying, and at times high-kicking piano fare rolled in!

Sha Na Na’s first appearance at Woodstock was only the band’s eighth performance. Formed during the 1968-1969 school year at Columbia University in New York City, the idea for the band was conceived by George Leonard, a humanities graduate student who also became the group’s choreographer.

The original lineup featured a dozen members and performed a song-and-dance repertoire based on popular rock and doo-wop hits of the 1950s. Within two months we were the hottest rock act in New York, held over week after week at Steve Paul’s Scene, where the stars themselves partied, recalled Leonard.

According to the band’s drummer, John Fair Jocko Marcellino, it was on the final night that The Scene was open that Jimi Hendrix personally introduced Sha Na Na to Woodstock’s producers, Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld.

We were booked that night, Marcellino told Yahoo Entertainment’s Lyndsey Parker. We got $350, the check bounced, and we got a dollar to be in the movie. But that was a good dollar.

Sha Na Na’s high energy presentation and set-closing rendition of Danny & the Juniors’ At the Hop was a highlight of the concert and appeared in Michael Wadleigh’s award-winning documentary film, Woodstock (1970).

The movie helped make Sha Na Na a sensation in the U.S. and triggered a 1950s nostalgia craze that inspired the Broadway musical Grease (1971), George Lucas’ feature film American Graffiti, and the long-running television series Happy Days (1974-1984).

When director Randal Kleiser’s big budget film adaptation of Grease arrived in 1978, the accompanying soundtrack included six songs by Sha Na Na, and the group performed two songs in the film as as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers.

During their 1970s heyday, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, and Jay Leno all opened for Sha Na Na.

Sha Na Na continues to play concerts, and the current lineup features original members Marcellino and Donny York, as well as Screamin’ Scott Simon who joined in 1979. Simon co-wrote the much-loved Sandy which appears in the Grease film. They are the only surviving members from the original band and TV show.

Woodstock: 20 Years After features 23 classic rock and doo-wop performances by Sha Na Na and runs 51 minutes. Order the first digital single, You Can’t Sit Down, at Sha Na Na now.

Sha Na Na - Woodstock: 20 Years After (Official Trailer)

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