FLASHBACK MOTOR CITY HAPPENINGS ’65 . . . AUGUST 21, 1965

From the MCRFB news archive: 1965

Music Happenings In and Around Detroit Town, 1965

 

 

 

 

DETROIT — The Stan Kenton Orchestra will kick off the annual Town and Country and Gown Celebrity Series at the University of Detroit, Sunday, August 29. . . . Count Basie, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith and Carmen McRae and their respective groups are due here Sunday for George Wein’s first Festival Prelude at Cobo Hall. . . . Singers Lesley Gore, Stevie Wonder, The Shangri-Las, Coasters, Sunliners, Dis-Coquettes Dancers, along with the Choker Campbell Orchestra Band will team up in a special show “The Swingin’ Kind,” on WXYZ, emceed by 1270 deejay Lee Alan. It is tentatively slated for the ABC television network. . . . Musical comedy star Tessie O’Shea opened Monday, August 16 as headliner at the Elmwood Casino across the Detroit river in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. END

Bandleader Stan Kenton of the Stan Kenton Orchestra
Bandleader Stan Kenton of the Stan Kenton Orchestra.

 (Information and news source: Billboard; August 21, 1965).

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