Beach blanket beauty: The swinging '60s of Donna Loren The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Some pretty big stars had featured songs in the "beach party" movies of the 1960s: Stevie Wonder, Nancy Sinatra, Dorothy Lamour, Dick Dale and, of course, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. So how did Donna Loren — whose claim to fame then was as ...
InfluencING Kilian Garland Surfing Magazine (blog) I've been hitting up hulu.com and refreshed myself on Beach Party — trying to study Frankie Avalon's dance moves. It's a surf classic and must see. Martin Scoresse's Boardwalk Empire and all the HBO and Showtime series.
Music Producer Rocks Old-School In Digital Era (PHOTOS) Huffington Post (blog) He is a record producer who has worked with such greats as Sammy Davis Jr., c, Ella Fitzgerald and Frankie Avalon. On the business front, he is the CEO of SRI Entertainment Group, a Los Angeles based independent record company that carries classic jazz ...
A Conversation with Tony Orlando Metrowny.com and now I'm sitting here with you and you're showing me pictures of you and Frankie Avalon, who you just interviewed, and telling me about some of the others you've done. I told you that you had the ability to do this and you did it.
Lessons Learned From John Edwards Philadelphia Magazine (blog) Then, when I was a teenager, my mother made me get Frankie Avalon's autograph at the Italian Market Festival. He was really excited. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I had no idea who he was, so I hugged him and said I was a big fan.
Kid Rock's 'Chillin' the Most' cruise floats fans' boat The Detroit News Promoters such as Sixthman (which is behind Ritchie's cruise), Entertainment Cruise Productions and Rose Tours have built genre-specific voyages around themes including malt shop pop (Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, Ronnie Spector), jazz (George Benson, ...
Superstars and Beach Bars It's Memorial Day Weekend in AC The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Saturday “The Gang of Outlaws” tour rocks the Mark G. Etess Arena at Trump Taj Mahal featuring ZZ Top and 3 Doors Down with Special Guest Gretchen Wilson, Golden Nugget takes you back to the Golden Days of rock and roll with Frankie Avalon, Fabian, ...
Monthly Elks Dance Helps Keep Doo Wop Alive Patch.com Strains of “Blue Velvet,” Chuck Berry's “School Days,” and Frankie Avalon crooning “Venus,” moved some couples to the dance floor. Others lined up at the snack bar for orders of '50s-style fare like burgers, fries, pretzels and fizzy sodas.
A Conversation with Frankie Valli Metrowny.com Back in the day of teen idols like Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydel and Fabian, you found they were surrounded with management that were very careful about their reputations. And, parents were more concerned with the reputation of their children.
20 Celebrity Couples Who Have Been Married 25 Years ... And Beyond Huffington Post One of the original teen idols, Frankie Avalon -- whose song "Venus" spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959 -- and wife Kay have been married since January 1963 (much to the disappointment of millions of female teen groupies).
