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LES BROWN TO STARDUST AUGUST 5

6/19/2000

July 19, 2000
Les Brown and His Band of Renown, whose incredible popularity has spanned the Golden Age of big bands and the modern era, will appear at the Stardust Resort and Casino on Saturday, August 5.

The orchestra will play for dancing in the Stardust Ballroom from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. Admission is $15 per person.

Brown has enjoyed 67 years of uninterrupted public acclaim. He is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as having the longest organized group in the history of popular music. His band achieved unprecedented notoriety when it accompanied Bob Hope on 18 overseas Christmas shows, playing for men and women in the armed services stationed all over the world.

Brown has batoned his own band since the mid-1930's when he fronted an aggregation of his fellow students at Duke University and toured the east coast as "The Duke Blue Devils."

Brown, who plays alto saxophone and clarinet, eventually settled in New York where he arranged for the bands of Isham Jones, Jimmy Dorsey, Larry Clinton and Red Nichols.

Brown formed a new band that started gaining national prominence in the early 1940s. Featuring a young vocalist named Doris Day, the band became a favorite on jukeboxes and in dance halls throughout America.

Brown's long string of hit recordings in the 1940s includes "My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm," "Sentimental Journey" (his own composition), and the band's theme song, "Leap Frog."

Bob Hope hired the Brown band for musical support on his radio shows and personal appearances. The Hope-Brown collaboration soon made show business history.

In 1947 the comedian and the bandleader packaged a special Christmas show and exported it to military personnel stationed overseas. The junket was so well received that it was continued for the ensuing 17 years.

The Bob Hope Christmas Show achieved legendary proportions. The traveling cast starred top singers, dancers and starlets, such as Ann Margaret, Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe.

Throughout the rapidly-changing trends in popular music over the past four decades, Les Brown has maintained an amazingly steady presence.

His bands have earned numerous honors, including coveted awards from Downbeat, Metronome and Billboard Magazines.

The Band of Renown has been showcased on television shows hosted by Steve Allen,
Milton Berle, Dean Martin and Mel Torme. It has recorded with Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer, Nancy Wilson, Dick Haymes and the Ames Brothers.

Brown has served a guest conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Denver Symphony, North Carolina Symphony and the United States Air Force Band.

The band played at the Presidential Inaugural Ball for Richard Nixon in 1973 and for Ronald Reagan in 1985.

Brown has enjoyed a recent resurgence in popularity with the release of remastered compact disc versions of his recordings from the 1940s and 1950s.