Dick Campbell & Easy Street Peter Pan & Boom-Bah CineVista CV-3 ~ Very RARE

Dick Campbell joined the group Easy Street in 1967 and sang the lead vocal on this record. Easy Street (previously known as the Matadors was a rock band booked at local clubs by Ken Adamany of Janesville WI.  When Dick became their manager and started singing with them he changed their name.

In the 1969 a group of actors in Madison WI put on a preposterous play called Peter Pan. The reason it was so unique is that their were actors. Dick Campbell decided to write a song about it and describe what happened. It was recorded at Cuca Records in Sauk City and released on CineVista Records. 

About the play...

"Peter Pan In The Nude" ... from a newspaper article

The theater highlight of 1968 led indirectly to Madison's most enduring avant garde theater company. Without the local nude version of Peter Pan, Broom Street Theater might have never been born.It was standing-room-only in the Memorial Union Play Circle for the Sept. 23 premiere of Stuart Gordon's politically charged adaptation of the children's classic. Screw Theater's updated allegory included an eight-minute segment in which six co-eds, representing innocence, danced nude under psychedelic lights.The opening was a smash, but the next day the cast - fearing arrest on obscenity charges - voted to indefinitely postpone further performances.This concern was well-warranted. On Oct. 1, following an invitation-only performance, Dane County District Attorney James Boll deemed the performance obscene under Wisconsin law, with potential penalties of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Despite their earlier concerns, the cast now chose to defy Boll, giving two performances that night in the UW Commerce Building before about 1,000 people in all. Boll bit back, issuing arrest warrants for two unnamed dancing co-eds. Ald. Soglin angrily accused Boll, on the cusp of an election, of political pandering. Boll responded by issuing an arrest warrant for director/producer Gordon, of Chicago, and removing UW Police Chief Ralph Hanson from the case for his lack of zeal in tracking down the offending dancers.week later, Carol Ann Purdy, of Janesville, was arraigned, pleading not guilty to the charge of taking part in a lewd, obscene and indecent performance.But once Boll was safely elected, he began to question whether the performance was indeed obscene, or actually art. He also began to worry that he had no complaining witnesses. And so on Dec. 3, he withdrew the charges against Purdy and Gordon, who by now were engaged to be married. Gordon, unhappy about new university control of his productions, soon founded Broom Street Theater. He went on to a successful career as a screenwriter and award-winning film director, often casting Purdy, fully clothed.

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