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February 07, 2008 - Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge
Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge is best known for their hit single “Sixteen Candles” this awesome group takes you back. In these live appearances, the Bridge takes its audience on a tour through the history of the band and its members, and offers a glimpse of its current musical direction, all the while showcasing the power and artistry of the incomparable Johnny Maestro. Johnny Maestro began his career singing with a group from Manhattan called The Crests. Their first records (including "My Juanita" and "Sweetest One") generated some regional response, but it was the release of "Sixteen Candles" that brought them national recognition.
Kenny Vance & The Planotones
As a kid in New York, Kenny Vance was captivated by the magic of Rock 'n Roll. At the age of fifteen, he was hanging around the famed Brill Building, meeting other singers and songwriters. Eventually he formed the successful group Jay and The Americans, who had the distinction of opening for The Beatles and The Rolling Stones for each of their first U.S. performances.
Kenny remained with Jay and The Americans throughout the group's eleven-year history, touring extensively and recording fifteen albums, which included the hits Come A Little Bit Closer, Cara Mia, She Cried, and Only In America. In the years that followed, Kenny Vance began an expansive career that kicked off with producing the first record for Walter Becker and Donald Fagen - Steely Dan. Kenny went on to compose, supervise and produce a long list of scores and soundtracks for feature films and television. He gave the film of the Alan Freed story, American Hot Wax, its musical life by recreating the groups of the 50's and 60's for the screen. The Planotones were formed for that film and gave their first on-screen performance. In addition, Vance served as musical director for Saturday Night Live and music supervisor for the films "Animal House," "Eddie & The Cruisers," and "Looking For An Echo." As an actor, Kenny has appeared in "Hurly Burly," "Billy Bathgate," "American Hot Wax," "Eddie & The Cruisers," and in the Woody Allen films "Manhattan", "Stardust Memories", "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and "Husbands and Wives".
Jay Siegel and the Tokens
Young men singing Doo Wop in high school bathrooms and on street corners across New York City was hardly extraordinary in the late 50s and early 60s. What is extraordinary, though, is the incredible feat that one of those groups from Brooklyn has accomplished.
First breaking onto the pop charts in 1961, THE TOKENS got back on the charts in the 1990s and were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall Of Fame in 2004.
THE TOKENS continue to distinguish themselves with the second-longest chart span in the history of Rock & Roll. More than 30 years after the debut of their first big hit, "TONIGHT I FELL IN LOVE", they re-emerged on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in August 1994, following the re-release of their chart-topping single, "THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT." Making the statistic even more impressive, the South African folk song "Wimoweh," which inspired THE TOKENS’ song that went to #1 worldwide, first charted 42 years earlier. No other song title can claim that longevity
Frankie Ford
Frankie Ford sang his way to rock n' roll immortality in 1959 with the mega hit “SEA CRUISE”. That song has become one of the greatest rock n' roll classics of all time. The tag line, "OOH-WEE, OOH-WEE, BABY" is one of the most recognizable lines in all of popular music.
He is known all over the world as the "New Orleans Dynamo" and spends about 200 days a year on the road. The legendary rock n' roll pianist and performer continues to entertain the masses all over the world in concerts, nightclubs, casinos and festivals.
Kid Kyle
At the age of eight, Kyle experienced his first taste of national exposure when he appeared on American Idol Junior; Kyle was one of 60 children chosen to attend the next round of auditions in Los Angeles, California.
In the spring of 2005, Kyle recorded his first CD, "Kid Kyle and his Kool Kats”. By November 2005, Kyle began to receive media exposure. An article in the Bergen Record entitled "Instead of rapping, he's Doo-Wopping" lead to an appearance on NBC'S "Today in New York", Fox's "Good Day New York" and a national appearance on "The Tony Danza Show".
In The spring of 2006, Kyle returned to the studio to record his sophomore CD”Tribute to the Lymon Brothers". In September 2007 Kyle released his third CD entitled "Here's Kid Kyle". This CD was produced and recorded at Ganzilla Music in Cranford, NJ.
Today Kyle continues to wow audiences with his talent and showmanship Pittsburgh's WTAE Channel 4 Five o'clock news has referred to Kid Kyle as the "Prince of Doo Wop" and also as the "King in Training".
Count Basie Theatre
99 Monmouth Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701
732-842-9000
http://www.countbasietheatre.org
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