New Harvard Rock Group to Snow European Fans With U.S. R 'n' R

A new Harvard rock 'n' roll group called the Chosen Few plan to make it big this summer on a large supply of confidence, a little cash, and an limitation Beach-Boys sound.

The Few -- four undergraduates and a first-year law student -- have a contract to perform in Germany this summer at the Star Club, one of the headquarters of European rock 'n' roll. They would like to get an engagement on a ship going to Europe. The Star Club holds the European recording rights for such artists as Little Richard. Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Walker Brothers.

The group plans no public appearances until this summer, but by next fall, after having cut at least one album and several singles on the Star Club label, "we'll be the tightest, most fantastic sound at Harvard," Steve Gloyd '69, the Few's spokesman and bass guitar, predicts.

The other members are Andy Pratt '68, lead guitar; Chris Frederickson '67, electric organ; John Hartnett '65, lead singer and rhythm guitar; John Altman '69 on the drums. The describe their sound--which no one else has yet heard--as "a pretty good mixture of the best of everything."

They lean toward the Byrds and the Stones, and will do a lot of Beach Boys numbers at the Star Club.

They have also written some songs of their own, mostly lines from the Bible set to music -- "symbolic," explains one of the Few.