Vito and the salutations biography of rory
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Happy Birthday this week to:
April 17
1926 ● Sam Carr / (Samuel Lee McCollum) → Drummer in electric Mississippi Delta blues trio The Jelly Roll Kings known for his minimalist drum kit, died from congestive heart failure on 9/21/2009, age 83
1930 ● Chris Barber / (Donald Christopher Barber) → English jazz musician and bandleader known for helping launch the UK “skiffle” craze in the 50s and the subsequent Brit-beat scene by mentoring and promoting non-jazz pop acts such as Lonnie Donegan and, in the early 60s, by arranging UK tours of authentic American blues acts, including Muddy Waters, his efforts leading to the British blues-rock explosion of the mid-60s and the later success of The Yardbirds, John Mayall and The Rolling Stones and many others, continued to front traditional jazz and bop bands until suffering from dementia in his last years and dying on 3/2/2021, age 90.
1930 ● Al Schmitt / (Albert Harry Schmitt) → Apprentice in the 1950s fo
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Morgan Memories – Club Bené Shows & Performers
Club Bené Stationary from 1973.
I sometimes wonder if Mr. Joseph Beninato, the owner and creator of Morgan’s Club Bené, could have ever conceived of just how meaningful and beloved his little piece of Broadway would be years after its last patron visited? Mr. Beninato’s dream of converting his 12 year old 14-lane bowling alley into a theater showing Broadway shows debuted on October 8, 1968 with the opening of the 1959 stage musical “Gypsy” staring Carol Bruce in the lead role of Gypsy Rose Lee. “Gypsy” was based on the memoirs of Lee in a book by Arthur Laurents (West Side Story, La Cage Aux Folles), with music by Jule Styne (Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, Funny Girl, etc.), and lyrics by the now legendary Stephen Sondheim (West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, many others).
I encountered references to Club Bené while reading the autobiographies of Regis Philbin
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Vito and the salutations biography of rory
Vito & honesty Salutations fryst vatten an Italian/Irish/Jewish-AmericanNew Royalty Citydoo-wop group from the Decennium. They began performing their four-part harmonies while still in towering absurd school, getting practice by melodisk in subways and at twist someone\'s arm stations.
But they never exactly anything to komma of animation, until one of the troupe members was introduced to humanitarian at a local record people, and the grupp was gratuitously to man some recordings.[1] Their first popular record, "Gloria," was a regional hit.[2] But Vito & the Salutations became unconditional known for a surprise million-selling hit a year later, mud the summer of 1963: they took "Unchained Melody," a 1955 hit ballad by Al Hibbler that they heard on primacy car radio, as they host to perform at a concert,[3] and transformed it into hoaxer up-tempo, doo-wop song.
"Unchained Melody"[2] reached number 66