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The Casinos was a nine-member doo-wop group from Cincinnati, Ohio, [1] led by Gene Hughes and which included Bob Armstrong, Ray White, Mickey Denton, and Pete Bolton. Ken Brady performed with the group, taking over for Hughes from 1962 to 1965 as lead singer. Pete Bolton was replaced at the time by Jerry Baker.
Casinos' frontman Gene Hughes would recall that he'd heard the 1964 Johnny Nash recording of "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" on the John R. Show broadcast on WLAC out of Nashville and that the Casinos had been performing it in their club act for several years (Gene Hughes quote:)"So, while we were in the studio in the King Studios in Cincinnati ...
Now playing off-Broadway at New World Stages, this new work features several Petula Clark hits, as well as 1960s songs by Nancy Sinatra, Dusty Springfield and Lesley Gore.
Although the Casino had led the move uptown by the Broadway theatre district, [6] by 1930, most of the theatres had moved even further north, to the West 40s. [7] The last performance was the opera Faust presented by the American Opera Company on January 18, 1930 with tenor Charles Kullman in the title role and soprano Nancy McCord as ...
The show was directed and choreographed by Barbara Valente, with the cast that included Cindy Herron, John Nockels, Tim Connell, Mimi Unser, Darlene Popovic and James Followell. [6] In September 1987, a third production of Tune the Grand Up was financed by actor Richard Smart at the 490 seat Kahilu Theatre in the town of Kamuela, Hawaii . [ 5 ]
Crazy Rhythm was frequently used as the closing music for BBC's humorous The Goon Show, performed live by Max Geldray or Ray Ellington, and is commonly associated with the show. Another notable recording of the song is on 1961's Further Definitions, by Benny Carter with Coleman Hawkins. This is one of Carter's most acclaimed recordings. [7] [8]
In 1992 the show appeared on Broadway in a heavily revised version. It was given a new title, Crazy for You , and a completely new plot, and interpolated with material from other Gershwin stage shows and films, specifically songs written for the Fred Astaire movies of the 1930s such as "Nice Work If You Can Get It" from A Damsel in Distress and ...
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