Of all the acts that graced the Woodstock stage that weekend in August 50 years ago, perhaps the most unlikely was Sha Na Na, a group of Columbia University students who previously sang together in…
, a group of Columbia University students who previously sang together in the campus a cappella group the Kingsmen and had formed just months before the festival.
Their performance of “At the Hop,” edited together by a fledging film student named Martin Scorsese, who worked on the Woodstock documentary, catapulted the group into an appearance in the film “Grease,” and a syndicated TV variety series which ran for four years from 1977 and 1981 and made the long-departed bass vocalist Jon “Bowzer” Bauman a household fixture.
“I expected it to be a cool scene, hanging out with rock stars,” said Marcellino. “Instead there were all these emergency stations. The whole weekend teetered on going out of control, but never quite did.” “The stage was sinking and there were all these electrical problems,” said Jocko. “They were afraid the artists would fry. It was pretty hairy.”
As the rains continued to soak the field, the Woodstock promoters approached Hendrix, who was slated to close the festival Sunday night, to take the stage, but he refused, insisting a handful of acts who had been hanging out all weekend, including Sha Na Na, be allowed to play first. Marcellino was two-way football player in high school , who took off the shoulder pads to play drums for the marching band at halftime. He played in a number of bands during his freshman year at Columbia before joining what became Sha Na Na. “I was the only one with a drum kit,” jokes Jocko. “We all learned and choreographed the material, and we knew we had something.”
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