EDITED 7/31/13: Hi, some gigs to tell you about: August 2 — BILL JANOVITZ NEW YORK TOUR — I will be playing with another superb backing band, this time made up of New York ringers, Neil Nunziato, Billy Ryan, and Matt Lindsey at Spike Hill in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with more or less the same kind …
For a couple of years, circa 1958/’59, my father was second tenor in a vocal quartet called the Fabulairs. They sang a version of Doo Wop, but I think they aspired to sound more like the Platters and the Flamingos than Danny and the Juniors. My mother and father went to go see the show Jersey …
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We just stopped off in New York for an overnight with the kids on our way to the Shore for a vacation. I was telling my kids stories from when I would first make trips in from Long Island in the 1970s and ’80s and I was reminded of this one. Shortly after my uncle …