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The Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 492 people. It is the deadliest nightclub fire in history and the third-deadliest single-building fire (after the September 11 attacks and Iroquois Theatre fire ).
Bobby Bland and B. B. King Together Again...Live is a live album recorded in 1976 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles by Bobby Bland and B. B. King. Professional ratings Review scores
Soon after the release on VHS and LaserDisc, a bootleg CD entitled A Black and White Night, Roy Orbison in Concert with the Billion Dollar Band surfaced. This CD, which came before any official release of the concert, has the same 15 songs in the same order as the original VHS/Laserdisc release and catalogue number RO.LA.87, referring to the ...
In 1967, the song "Coconut Grove" by John Sebastian and recorded by The Lovin' Spoonful was released. It later was covered by David Lee Roth and Paul Weller. In 1978, the song "Voila, An American Dream" by Rodney Crowell and the 1979 cover version by the Dirt Band, Coconut Grove is mentioned prominently in the chorus as a vacation destination.
The first was the Cosmo Club in Wardour Street; then followed the St Regis Hotel, Cork Street, the Coconut Grove and the Bagatelle Restaurant, that opened the doors for Ros and high society. [3] All the leaders of Allied Countries in World War II and the Royal Family came there to dine and listen to Edmundo's Rumba Band.
Crazy from the Heat is a 1985 EP by American rock musician David Lee Roth.His debut solo recording, it was released while Roth was still lead singer for Van Halen, though he parted ways with the band several weeks later and launched a solo career.
Loyce Whiteman, singer for the Cocoanut Grove Orchestra, recalled, "the most beautiful thing about the Grove is that they stood in front of you when you sang and just swayed to the music. Joan Crawford would stand at the stand and sing a couple of choruses with the band. It was a house full of stars." [12]
Guy Lombardo (famous for his New Year big band remotes from The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel) Freddy Martin (from the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles) Ray McKinley; Glenn Miller (from the Cafe Rouge of New York's Pennsylvania Hotel, Boston's Raymor Ballroom and Glen Island casino) Freddy Nagel (from the Empire Room in the Palmer House in Chicago)