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Sonny and Cher played Evansville, Ind. for me,
to a sold out house



I have produced sold-out concerts with the biggest names in the entertainment business, like Sonny and Cher, The Temptations, The Jackson Five, Neil Diamond, Led Zeppelin, Three Dog Night, Kenny Rogers, The Bee Gees, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Grand Funk Railroad, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Rascals, Gene Pitney, Steppenwolf, Sly and the Family Stone, The Everly Brothers, Tom Jones, Bill Cosby, The Fifth Dimension, Ike and Tina Turner, Ten Years After, Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Osmonds, and later, Donny and Marie, the Supremes with Diana Ross, The Guess Who, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, James Taylor, and more.

I put these concerts into cities like Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Duluth, Min., Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Ind., Gary, Indiana, St. Louis, Mo., Houston and Dallas, Tx., Jackson, Miss. Evansville, Indiana and Terre Haute, Indiana where I started this business, my first attempt  at entrepreneurship.

                      

                                      I interviewed the Beatles at the Indiana State Fair

                                                  

 

   
 

Dick Clark, of American Bandstand fame sold me many of his lucrative Caravan of Stars shows

 
   

 

 

 
   
 

Gene Pitney and me at his farewell Concert in Evansville, Indiana, Mesker Amphitheatre, featuring the Buckinghams, Easybeats, The Association, Music Explosion, The Fifth Estate, and others. All had top records on the charts.

 
     
     
  The Buckinghams   The Supremes   Sonny and Cher
     
Alice Cooper   Creedance Clearwater   Three Dog Night  
     
  Led Zeppelin   James Taylor   Three Dog Night
     
Kenny Rogers   Sonny and Cher  

Rascals

 
                                                         

 

                                                                          Led Zeppelin and me. I am standing, third from right, next to Jimmy Page
 

    Steppenwolf, featuring John Kay, at Memphis' Mid South Coliseum. I am in white suit with scarf.

                    The Grass Roots, and me, and my wife, Memphis' Mid South Coliseum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The fabulous Motown Temptations 

 John Kay and Steppenwolf 

 
Teen Idol David Cassidy   Neil Diamond was amazed such a young man was promoting concerts
     

  Kenny Rogers

 

       TOM JONES

 Teen Idol Bobby Sherman  

         

The BEE GEES

 GRAND FUNK RAILROAD 

The CRYSTALS

         
American Bandstand's DICK CLARK We were partners on many concerts

The Jackson Five early years on my Louisville State Fair concert

         

             Jethro Tull

                                                  Chicago
       

Now a white female

    The Jackson 5, when Michael was still black 

David Cassidy was star of TV's

ThePartridge Family

  Sonny and Cher's TV hit show on ABC

The Everly Brothers

                   Gary Lewis and the Playboys
Gary Lewis and the Playboys with famous dad Jerry Lewis          At Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy telethon
   

 

Bill Cosby

          Bobby Vee
         
                Sly and the Family Stone

             Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
                      The Turtles
                                  The Yardbirds
                              Paul Revere and the Raiders
                                        Peter and Gordon
                        Donny and Marie Osmond

RARE EARTH

BLACK SABBATH  
CHAD AND JEREMY The ASSOCIATION
          The BUCKINGHAMS                     The VOGUES
 
  GARY PUCKETT AND THE UNION GAP         IKE and TINA TURNER
 
       
                 TONY ORLANDO and DAWN

 

   
           Tommy James and the Shondells
    Tommy James and the Shondells on Ed Sullivan's TV show            days before appearing for my concert.    


Gene Pitney

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