Catherine
At 23:15 15/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Rock & Rap Confidential - May 1999
>
>DOUBLE YOUR STANDARD, DOUBLE YOUR FUN? ... Colin Powell and William Bennett
>helped sponsor an April 29 benefit for the Best Friends Foundation, which
>asks teenage girls to postpone sex and reject drugs and alcohol. The event
>was a pseudo-sock hop in which Powell's Roll team beat the other side,
>dubbed Rock, in a Name That Tune contest. Hideous as it is to contemplate,
>Bennett, Powell, AOL honcho Steve Case and their wives actually "sang" the
>Marvin Gaye classic, "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved by You."
>
>The event also featured the Drifters, the "Marvellettes," and the Platters.
>All the groups were phonies - sleazy fake band promoter Larry Marshak
>doesn't own a trademark on the real Marvelettes so he misspells that
>group's name. Not one of the three groups has a single original member, and
>in some cases, Marshak is able to prevent legit performers from using the
>names of their groups!
>
>A friend of ours who attended the Best Friends event approached Powell and
>Bennett about their perpetration of this fraud. "There's no harm being done
>here," Powell said.
>
>Told he was dead wrong - Marvelettes leader Gladys Horton recently had to
>apply for public assistance - because work is so scarce - Powell responded,
>"Why are you trying to ruin a good event and a good cause?" Powell, who
>helped cover up the My Lai massacre, walked away in a huff.
>
>Our friend then cornered Bennett "Yeah, I knew," said Bennett. "But I don't
>care." The author of The Book of Virtues also huffed away.
>
>There is legislation pending to prevent Marshak and other promoters from
>perpetrating these frauds. Apparently, it's a good thing Gen. Powell and
>Bennett haven't realized their Presidential aspirations or the bill would
>probably be vetoed if it ever did manage to pass. Not that the current
>President is any better: On March 18, the day that the rock'n'roll
>impostors bill was introduced, Clinton was in Florida being serenaded with
>"Stand By Me," sung by a fake group of Drifters.
>