Carl was a legit made man. Sinatra was a wannabe owned by the mafia. Carl was promoted after this minor incident.

In robert Lacey's biography of Meyer Lansky he covers Bugsy's dealings with the commission in charge of building materials. They were being tightly rationed with housing for returning soldiers getting priority. Its quite obvious that bribes were involved. It's very revealing that all these celebrities flocked to be a friend of his. Obviously they thought it was cool to be associated with a mobster. The only acception being Jimmy Stewart.

Burt and Al Benedict were two of the best people I've ever known. Truly standup men.

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Sweet Louie RIP my friend. I heard he passed away during his act on a Cruise ship. Sad. He was very good to me in 1989 Las Vegas. They played LV Hilton and DUNES. Great, fun act. They had some wonderfully written and arranged songs. Herb Alpert gave them their first record deal as they said. The rest is history.

hi I am doing a documentary on Buddy Greco who was a great friend of mone for 30 years and wondered if you had ever interviewed him ? thanks

Hello! My dad was a member of the Checkmates. Joey Ramirez. I have been searching for any videos of him playing, but have been unsuccessful. I've heard about these gentlemen all of my life. Actually ran into Bobby Stevens in L.A. around 1988/89. I didn't have but a minute to introduce myself. I would love to get some info or stories about my dad who recently passed. Thanks in advance.

He was one of a kind. He supported a lot of families. The world needs more of him.

lol

What a lovely memory. I enjoy videos like these of people who remember Elvis that had kind things to say about Elvis.

Saw him 1972

Sam is one of my top 5 favorite saxophone players of all time.

Rest in peace, DI Be the best in resorte heaven

I actually worked with Steve, once, on the the same billing...in a night club in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was an exceptionally nice guy. I recall our lead singer had back problems and Steve gave him some sort of massage he had learned somewhere - just a very nice, pleasant, unassuming man.

MAE was an INSTITUTION and goodness had nothing to do with it, Dearie! 💎 🎉

I heard he ran an Epstein out west operation, by A little black girl/ young women who was rather triggered when I said MGM, was my destination she said what that guy he is a Pedo*ile in the Albertsons grocery store in late 2005. Maybe a motive for the Saudis shooting up route 91 on October first??? The money he usedc to buy his airplanes were from the Braufmanns, who own Canada Dry, who was just arrested for allegedly S*x trafficking.

Freddie seems like he was a really cool person besides the talent he had.

I just started looking for My Dad and Mom's past life as I remember and both did junkets with your grandfather from NY every 2 months. They loved it....Great Memory...I went to the Dune's once...

Steve and Marty Allen had sort of a low-rent Martin and Lewis act that I'd see frequently on the Ed Sullivan Show. They were good!

ELVIS 😇♥️ was A GIVER 💜🤑🏡🚙🚜💎💍💰 TOWARDS SO MANY PEOPLE 🤩😈 AND A LOT OF CHARITIES 🌈🤑 Elvis was a sweet 🧁 very generous 💵🤑 to a fault 😟 down ⬇️ to earth 🌎 funny intelligent 🤓/he had a photographic memory 🤓 warm 🥵 sensitive spiritual multi talented 🎤🎸🥁🎹🩰🎭 and amazing triple threat 🌈 human being 😍 and legend towards a lot of people of various ethnicity/nationality 🤩 and socioeconomic class 💕

Lovely story <3

Here we see the truth about how Elvis came to record Hound Dog, not the fantasy from the new movie making out he owed it all to others. The fact is the song was written by Leiber & Stoller.

Howard Hughes had Bob Maheu try to talk kirk out of building the high rise, not sure how much effort Bob Maheu put into it, but reported to Howard that he tried.

I love it!

There are basically two main groups of people types ... those who worship sin and those that worship God. People don't even need to make a choice as to what they want. Their choices put them on one side or the other; making it very easy to distinguish. Many say they are a "good person". God is the only one who is a truly good person. He said in His Word, "There is none righteous. No, not even one."

Another great Mae West line. Gotta remember that one.

If this guy dressed up in drag, he could pass as a double of mae west no problem and probably did.

I played NYE at the Sands in 1978. I feel privileged to say that I, and the organization I was part of, was a small part of that Icon’s history.

Yooooo

The question is who is lynn zook? what is a zook? who is a zook?

Love these regular folk stories about Elvis!

That's my grandfather hes talking about, it makes me so proud knowing this. I'm his daughters grandson.

Cool story!

Freddie Bell's footnote in the history of Rock and Roll is written in stone. Worthy of acknowledgement.

Great, great group. Saw them many times. Bobby Stevens

Sam had a great soulful voice. You'd think he was black. Beautiful guy. Great musician. R. I. P., Sam Butera. They don't make them like Sam anymore

I knew Jay Sarno and played his motel/hotel called the Cabana in Dallas Texas and the one in Palo Alto..Marty Melcher was involved with that and his wife Doris Day..They wanted to handle my career but I had a great manager Stan Zucker..RIP TO MY JEWISH FATHER..LOVED HIM...I did have lunch with Doris Day as she invited me to her home in Beverly Hills,maybe Brentwood I can't recall...I knew her son who worked for Columbia records and he was also a talented young man ..Terry Melchor and had a hit of his own with a beach boy song Kokomo..And a member of the beach boys Bruce Johnston and he did another hit Hey Little Cobra and Disney Girls..I do believe they all helped Raquel Welch become a big star...

I remember serving Sweet Louie after a long night at Harvey’s Entertainment Bar. He had a sore throat, so I made him a Brandy Baileys Coffee. Every time I saw him after that he thanked me. R.I.P. Sir

Kirk was one of greatest entrepreneurs of our time, I read his a great success story from scratch.

Paging Burt Cohen. When ever Dan Tana (Vegas tv show)was walking thy the D.I. they would always page Mr. Cohen.

Sometimes I walk the strip alone late at night & imagine I'm Bugsy

Tropicana The Tiffany of The Strip

Good shit

Wow. And now it's nothing but mostly Mexicas, Hispanics, Latinos et.

Her killer lines still work God Bless her.

I spent a pleasant evening chatting with Sam Butera once, maybe 20 years ago. I was ready to sit in on saxophone with a keyboard friend of mine, Clifford Coulter, who was playing a tiny lounge in a San Jose CA cafe, when Sam came in with his horn. It turned out that he and Clifford went way back. They played a couple of numbers, and I declined their earnest entreaties for me to join in. For some reason, that just didn't seem right to me. Sam sat with me and was eager to entertain my requests for him to reminisce. He said he still had and owned all the Louis Prima charts. I asked him if he ever considered suing that rock guy who used his Just a Gigalo/ I Ain't Got Nobody arrangement. He said, nah, he would have to work with copyright holders of the tunes; too much bother. Good memory.

That's hilarious! Opera singer indeed!

Actual live witnesses to seeing Elvis in person. Wow, its amazing how as we move towards forward time, it's a dying breed and thus these types of recordings will be played for future generations that would have just heard of Elvis, as we are doing with the current generation.

No one compares nor ever will

Elvis gave his love and money to everyone. He loved people.