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The nationally popular recording group, the Cowsills, will appear at the Sioux City Municipal Auditorium at 8 p.m. Sunday on a triple bill in which will also feature the Happenings, a pop vocal quarter, and Denny Brood, popular folk singer, in a benefit show sponsored by area college students with all proceeds going to the Muscular Dystrophy Drive.
Master of ceremonies will be Ron Lewis, National Youth president and son of Jerry Lewis, the national chairman for Muscular Dystrophy
The Cowsills made up of four teen-age brothers, their little sister and their parents began as an amateur family singing group in Newport, R. I. In 1967 they recorded an album for MGM which contained their first million seller, The Rain, the Park and Other Things.
They have since recorded five more albums and have appeared on numerous network television shows, including Johnny Carson, Johnny Cash, Dick Cavett, Jonathan Winters and others. Last year the Cowsills appeared at Westmar College in Le Mars, Iowa, before a capacity group.
Presently the group is composed of the brothers Bob, 21, Paul, 18, Barry, 16, and John, 15.
Tickets for the benefit show are being sold by students of the individual colleges involved in the campaign as well as at the auditorium box office.
Students from the following colleges are participating in the campaign, by contributing their time and services; University of South Dakota, Vermillion; Morningside College, Northwester College, Orange City, Iowa; South Dakota State University, Brookings; Chadron State College, Chadron, Neb; Iowa Lakes Community College, Estherville, Iowa; Westmar College, Le Mars and Briar Cliff College.
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