The voice was not what you expected. It wasn’t a deep baritone like a movie star. It was high-pitched, almost squeaky. But…
October 24th, 1966. 0400 hours. Fu province. The darkness inside the rubber plantation is not merely an absence of light. It is…
Las Vegas, December 1966. The most powerful man in entertainment just destroyed Andy Williams reputation in front of everyone who mattered. Frank…
Dean Martin was halfway through Everybody Loves Somebody when a man in the audience stood up. He cupuffed his hands around his…
Sir’s nightclub on [music] the Sunset Strip was the kind of place where power came to play. It was March 17th, 1963,…
The dust of Bracket Ville, Texas, rose with every gust of dry wind in that sweltering summer of 1968. On the set…
Grand Canyon, Arizona, July 1962. The set of the film How the West Was is mounted dangerously close to the canyon rim. …
Las Vegas, March 3, 1964, 215 BC Sammy Davis Jr. leaves the S Hotel after his last show of the night. …
The music stopped abruptly. There was no gradual fade-out nor a signal from the conductor. The band simply stopped playing. In the…
Backstage at Madison Square Garden smelled like cigarettes and old wood. December 18th, 1953, a Christmas charity concert sold out. 18,000 people…