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Post by jon hynes on Feb 22, 2011 11:42:45 GMT -5
Country Music Star
To Perform
GOUVERNEUR - Connie Smith, famed country-western entertainer, will headline the Gouveneur fair grand stand show Aug. 9 supported by the Sundowners, singing and instrumental group.
The RCA Victor recording star ranks among the outstanding female vocalists in the country and her first record, "Once a Day," was a smash success. Since then, under the direction of former trade journalist and publisher, Charlie Lamb, she has had an impressive collection of top selling albums and hit singles.
Connie Smith has captivated the teeny-bopper brigade as well as the mature good music and "country" crowd with her song stylings. Raised in Warner O. she jumped from hometown amateur shows to fame throughout the United States and Canada.
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Post by bobbbiez on Feb 22, 2011 14:46:22 GMT -5
Bobbiez, is the Augie your thinking about in reply #3001 page 201 Augie Lamonica?  Geez Dino, I want to say that name sounds right but I'm really not sure. Wish I could find the papers on the sale of my house on Stark St cause Augie was the one who bought it but with our recent move I can't find anything.  I do know he still lives in Rome.  |
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Post by dino on Feb 22, 2011 16:36:40 GMT -5
Bobbiez, I found out more info on Little Ray & The Blazers. Little Ray was Ray Armstrong from Rome. His Dad was Lyn Armstrong a sax player. I worked with Lyn a few times at The Club Martin in Rome when I was 16, almost 44 years ago. Bill Mc Cool played bass in Little Ray & The Blazers. Bill was in The Air Force as well as Mike Antunes, the sax player. The Blazers, at one time, had a steady Sunday night gig at Zito"s Hacienda. They would change members due to the fact the guys in the Air Force would get transfered in and out of Griffiss. Hence the reason some names ring a bell and some don't. On another note.... Jon, Al Peluso is a bartender at The Turning Stone. I see him quite often when I play there.
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Post by jon hynes on Feb 22, 2011 17:52:47 GMT -5
I can't find any record of Little Ray & The Blazers playing at the Forest, only at Di Castro's. The Forest advertised for most if not all of the bands that played there. Bernie and the Cavaliers recorded under the name Blazers and often used the name. Personally I rarely went to the beach unless I was playing there or occasionally on a Sunday when relatives from Endwell would come up to visit. So I don't know from first hand experience.
I don't remember the dates when the Little Ray & The Blazers played at Parkway Gardens and the Hacienda. I expect that was the rub with the Union, that they had moved from the Beach - Rome areas to the Utica area and taken the better jobs here away from Union members. I don't remember ever hearing of them playing here in the Utica area after the Union got involved.
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Post by jon hynes on Feb 22, 2011 19:09:41 GMT -5
MVTI Sets
Escapades
The senior class of Mohawk Valley Technical Institute will stage a series of spring-time party escapades this weekend to raise money for the Senior Weekend planned for August.
At 3:30 tomorrow students will congregate in the campus parking lot for a bed pushing contest. Entering seniors must pay 50 cents for the chance to test their muscle. Friday night there will be a student party at Dulan's Restaurant, Frankfort.
Saturday from 1 to 4 students will meet at Conkling Park for a jam session with Terry and the Renegades and a co-ed baseball game,
Students in charge of committees are Michael DeVito president of the senior class, Alex Potenza, Nathan Baum, Thomas Birzaro, Judy Tomanio, Sharon Coney, Eleanor Moses, Robert Gilson and John Bubbins.
Utica Daily Press - April 28,1962
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Post by jon hynes on Feb 22, 2011 20:00:25 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Feb 22, 2011 20:01:50 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Feb 22, 2011 20:08:47 GMT -5
Singer
Shocked
By Mike[/size]
A Rock 'n' Roll singer was admitted to St. Elizabeth Hospital after being knocked unconscious by an electric shock.
Elgia Lutes, 19, of 1624 Seymour Ave, a native of Trumansburg, was listed in fair condition after he received the shock during an appearance in the Proctor High School gymnasium.
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POLICE SAID Lutes was knocked unconscious while he was singing and playing an electric guitar with a band known as "Terry and the Renegades." The musician was still unconscious when police arrived and administered artificial resuscitation.
Police impounded the microphone that caused the shock. They listed the owner as Bill Quinn of radio station WTLB, the sponsor of the dance.
OBSERVER DISPATCH - MARCH 4, 1962
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Post by jon hynes on Feb 22, 2011 20:22:08 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Feb 22, 2011 20:31:45 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Feb 22, 2011 20:32:32 GMT -5
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Post by bobbbiez on Feb 22, 2011 21:32:58 GMT -5
Thanks Jon & Dino. I'm waiting for my sister to answer my email and hopefully she'll come up with the name of the band the way we knew it. I was in my early teens then so it would have been in the early 50's. 
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Post by dino on Feb 23, 2011 10:02:31 GMT -5
Little Ray & The Blazers were around in the 1960s to 1964ish time frame I've been told.
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Post by rod supiro on Feb 23, 2011 13:30:54 GMT -5
Jon.........nice to see those old Terry and the Renegades ads.........thanks.......it was a scary night when Terry was shocked at Proctor.....I went to the hospital in the ambulance and my family doctor treated Terry.........needless to say. after that, we onlu used our own sound.
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Post by rod supiro on Feb 23, 2011 13:46:15 GMT -5
we did some things together with the Blazers and my memory tells me 1961 and maybe 1962. by 1964 I had left Utica and gone on the road with a show band called the ambassador 5. I don't remember the blazers being around at that point. But, at my age, ny memory is suspect...lol
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Geez Dino, I want to say that name sounds right but I'm really not sure. Wish I could find the papers on the sale of my house on Stark St cause Augie was the one who bought it but with our recent move I can't find anything. 
