Boston, MA-NH (1888PressRelease)
February 07, 2008 - Saturday March 29 at 7:30PM
Tickets: Orchestra Seating $42.00 - US $62.00
Mezzanine Seating $42.00 -
The groups that everyone loved in the 50’s and the 60’s are coming together to perform their greatest hits; The Duprees, Charlie Thomas’ Drifters, Jimmy Beaumont & The Skyliners and The Legendary Teenagers
The Duprees
www.duprees.com
The Duprees are known across the world for their romantic interpretations of some of the most beautiful love songs ever written. They have made a career out of giving new life to old hits. If you take the Glenn Miller arrangements of the 1940's along with the tunes of Joni James, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Nat King Cole, (just to name a few) and put them together, you have the sound of The Duprees. 1962 You Belong To Me ,1962 My Own True Love , 1963 Gone With The Wind , 1963 Take Me As I Am , 1963 Why Don't You Believe Me ,1963 Have You Heard, 1963 Love Eyes, 1964 Where Are You, 1964 It Isn't Fair, 1965 I'm Yours, 1966 Let Them Talk, 1967 I Understand, 1969 Two Different Worlds.
Charlie Thomas’ Drifters
www.ctdrifters.com
Today's group includes the following: Charlie Thomas, who has been in show business for fifty years; joined the Drifters in 1958. Jerone Manning who Charlie found in a local club in York, PA. singing Drifters songs. Steven Brown from York, PA. Brown sang with Sunburst before joining the Drifters and Louis Bailey also from York, Pa. The group today tours throughout the world as "Charlie Thomas' Drifters" performing their hits, such as "There Goes My Baby," "Save the Last Dance for Me," "Spanish Harlem" ,"Stand By Me and the classic best seller "Under the Boardwalk." In 1988 The Drifters were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Jimmy Beaumont & The Skyliners
www.theskyliners.com
It is obvious that lead singer, Jimmy Beaumont, long ago achieved the hope that he once expressed for The Skyliners to be remembered as one of the best harmony groups of all time. The Skyliners created a new style of music by combining the streetwise harmonies of rhythm and blues groups like the The Moonglows and The Flamingos with the most sophisticated modern harmony style of The Four Freshman and The Hi Los. The song that would inspire their success is, "Since I Don't Have You" which is regarded as the quintessential fifties ballad from standard pop. In 1993, of was quite an honor to join The Skyliners in Nashville as they received an ASCAP Award for five million plays of "Since I Don't Have You."
The Teenagers
www.utopiaartists.com
With the release of the Warner Brothers motion picture Why Do Fools Fall In Love, in the summer of 1998, interest was re-kindled in Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. In the 1950's, the youngsters proved that teens could sing their own music and smash through social and ethnic barriers. With their first million selling crossover hit Why Do Fools Fall In Love, they influenced, inspired and opened the doors for Michael Jackson, the Jackson 5, Madonna, Paul Simon, Diana Ross & the Supremes, the Temptations, Ronnie Dyson, Take 6, Ronnie Spector, Billy Joel, Boys II Men, and Ringo Starr; as publicly attested to by these artists. The first Rock 'n Roll/Pop act to succeed internationally, the Teenagers took the country of Panama by storm and had the distinct honor of representing Americas new music before the Queen of England, in a Command Performance during their ground breaking engagement at the famed London Palladium. Nominated for the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame every year from its inception, they were finally accorded that prestigious honor by being inducted in Los Angeles in January of 1993. This was followed in February 1994 by a Star being placed on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
They are also proud members of the United In Group Harmony (U.G.H.A.) Hall of Fame. In October 2000, the Teenagers were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and on March 29, 2002, the group was inducted into the Doo Wop Hall of Fame of America. Frankie Lymons "Legendary" Teenagers were proud to be a part of the groundbreaking PBS blockbuster Doo Wop 51" which debuted around the country on December 2, 2000.
Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
For tickets, call Box Office (617) 747-2261 or purchase tickets online http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/8199
For Press information contact: Angela Thomas: (201) 503-1333
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