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In 1968, Paul Colby (1917–2014), who began his career as a song plugger for Benny Goodman’s publishing company, and went on to work for Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, and Guy Lombardo, became the manager and booking agent at The Bitter End, and in 1974 he purchased it. [6] [7] Owner Paul Colby died in 2014.
The Bitter End, originally opened as a coffeehouse by club-owner-cum-film-producer Fred Weintraub in 1961, attracted a phalanx of young musicians needing to be heard. ... Paul Colby would come in ...
Weintraub was the original owner and host of The Bitter End in New York City's Greenwich Village. [2] Weintraub discovered singers and stand-up comedians such as Peter, Paul and Mary, Lenny Bruce (with whom he was arrested for obscenity), Randy Newman and The Isley Brothers. [3]
On November 4, 2011, Glenn Leopold, Paul Reisch and Steven Goldrich reunited for the first time since 1976 to perform at a benefit in Montclair, N.J. to feed the homeless, and honor their former manager and longtime Bitter End owner Paul Colby. In October 2014, they returned to the Bitter End to perform for the first time in 40 years.
Curtis/Live! is Curtis Mayfield’s first live album, after leaving The Impressions.Originally released in May 1971 as a double LP on Mayfield's Curtom label (distributed through Neil Bogart's Buddah Records), the album's 16 tracks — along with Mayfield's interstitial raps on the politics of the day — were recorded at Paul Colby's 230 seater Bitter End nightclub in New York City.
In the early 1970s, Noel was in New York and was working with Paul Colby, impresario and owner of the famous Greenwich Village club, The Bitter End. She was performing cover songs by John Prine and needed a backup band, so Colby asked Dennis Lepri, who had worked with Kenny Rogers and Gunhill Road, to form a band for her and produce her sound ...
Colby, Paul; Fitzpatrick, Martin (2002). The Bitter End: Hanging Out at America's Nightclub. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0815412069. Davis, Stephen (1985). Hammer of the Gods (book). New York City: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-33516-3. Fast, Susan (2001). In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music.
Bitter end or The Bitter End may refer to: Bitter end, the part of a rope used to form a knot; The Bitter End, a nightclub in New York City; Geography.