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HOTEL ROOSEVELT, - NEW YORK
45th Street & Madison Avenue
Murray Hill 6-9200, ext. 106-200
PUBLICITY:RENEE KLUGER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / August 29, 1957

SAMMY KAYE AND HIS ORCHESTRA OPEN AT ROOSEVELT GRILL, SEPTEMBER 16

Sammy Kaye and his "Swing and Sway" orchestra will opon an eight week engagement as the headline attraction at the Hotel Roosevelt Grill on Monday, Sammy KayeSeptember 16, it was announced by Roosevelt General.. Manager Edward L. Buckley.

Kaye, one of the nation's top bandleaders ever since his recordings of "Daddy" and "Remember Pearl Harbor" hit the best-seller lists in the earrly 1940's, will be returning to the Roosevelt Grill where he had a highly successful engagement last spring. He Is presently winding up his sumer tour with an engagement at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City.

Appearing with Kaye's orchestra will be vocalists Barry Frank and blonde-end-beautiful Sandi Summers. Also on hand will be the Kaydets and the Kaye Choir.

Kaye, whose recordings have sold more than 50,000,000 to date, is one of the best-selling recording artists among bandleaders. His newest hit, on the Columbia label, is "Moonlight Swim" backed by."'Mary Lou."

Sammy Kaye and his orchestra. will supply swing and sway rhythms for dancing at the Roosevelt Grill nightly except Sundays from 7 P.M. until 2 A.M. Cover charge after 10:00 P.M. will be $1.00 per person on weekdays and $1.50 on Friday, Saturday end holiday evenings. There is no minimum. Entrees range from $2.75.

The Kaye orchestra replaces Eddie Lane on the Grill bandstand.

THE REVIEWS
Andrews Sisters - Latin Quarter 1957
Desi Arnaz - w/Diosa Costello 1948
Count Basie - Lincoln 1943
Tony Bennett - Copacabana 1958
Milton Berle - Latin Quarter 1948
Joey Bishop - w/Andy Williams 1959
Ray Bolger - Wizard of Oz Scarecrow, Empire Room 1956
Cab Calloway - Greenwich Inn 1949
Diahann Carroll - Persian Room 1961
Betty Clooney - Waldorf Astoria 1954
Nat King Cole - Copacabana 1958
Perry Como - Versailles 1944
Copacabana - famous night club restaurant is reviewed 1953
Crosby Brothers - Latin Quarter 1961
Xavier Cugat - Waldorf Astoria 1951
Vic Damone - Riviera 1953
Billy Daniels - Copacabana 1952
Sammy Davis Jr. - Copacabana 1959
Phyllis Diller - w/Bobby Short 1958
Nancy Donovan - Copacabana 1952
Jimmy Durante - Copacabana 1951
Billy Eckstine - Copacabana 1951
Duke Ellington - Basin St. East 1961
Eddie Fisher - Empire Room 1959
Judy Garland -Town & Country 1958
Jackie Gleason - La Vie en Rose 1953
Benny Goodman - Empire Room 1956
Dolores Gray - Waldorf Astoria 1954
Buddy Hackett - Copacabana 1956
Connie Haines - Terrace Room 1951
Dick Haymes - Versailles 1956
Horace Heidt - 30th Anniversary 1954
Florence Henderson w/Bill Hayes 1958
Hildegarde - Pierre 1953
Celeste Holm - Plaza 1958
Eddy Howard - Roosevelt 1955
Burl Ives w/Wally Cox - Persian Room
Lisa Kirk - Persion Room 1958
Frankie Laine - Latin Quarter 1955
Julius La Rosa - Romanian 1958
Peggy Lee - Copacabana 1958
Jerry Lewis - Town & Country 1957
Joe E. Lewis - Copacabana 1945
Ted Lewis - Latin Quarter 1953
Liberace - Persian Room 1947
Guy Lombardo - Roosevelt 1957
Vincent Lopez - Grill Room 1954
Tony Martin - Riviera 1953
Martin and Lewis - Copacabana 1950
Ray McKinley - Glenn Miller Band 1957
Mills Brothers - Latin Quarter 1956
Vaughn Monroe - Astor 1955
Constance Moore - St. Regis 1958
Johnnie Ray - Copacabana 1953
Rowan & Martin - Latin Quarter 1961
Della Reese - Copacabana 1961
Sugar Ray Robinson - French Casino
Dorothy Shay - St. Regis 1961
Frank Sinatra - Wedgewood 1943
Danny Thomas - Copacabana 1949
Sophie Tucker - Latin Quarter 1950
Mae West - Latin Quarter 1956
Julie Wilson - Persian Room 1954
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