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Who Killed Elvis?

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Elvis

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TV's The Las Vegas Show

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Demond Wilson on The Dean Martin Roasts, Las Vegas, and Walking Out on Sanford & Son

Liberace, Frank Sinatra, and Jackie Gleason Attempted an Intervention on Elvis in Las Vegas

What Las Vegas Looked Like Under Lockdown

Sammy Davis Jr.'s Home Was Looted!

Very Revealing Interview with Sammy Davis Jr.

Las Vegas in the 1940s

Frank Sinatra's Last Major Interview

Portrait of Frank Sinatra in 1959
Frank Sinatra in
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Drummer Hal Blaine on Recording with The Rat Pack

Marty Allen Almost Cost Me My Foot!

Home Movies of Las Vegas During The Strip’s Golden Age

Donny & Marie Are Calling It Quits

Totie Fields

Sinatra's First Palm Springs Home

Phyllis Diller: An Appreciation

Steve Allen

Rich Little

Betty White on Don Rickles

Elvis' Background Singers

Wayne Newton

George Carlin

Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme

Redd Foxx

Las Vegas & The Mob

Henny Youngman

Rodney Dangerfield

How Las Vegas Has Changed Since the 1970s

How Las Vegas Has Changed Since the 1960s

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Joan Rivers

Las Vegas Postcards

TV's The Magician and Las Vegas

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Redd Foxx / Las Vegas Headliner

"My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried."
- Redd Foxx

Redd Foxx was an extremely popular Vegas headliner who started on the Chitlin' Circuit and worked his way up to the big showrooms at the largest casinos on the Strip. Redd used to do a standup act at 2:30 in the morning in Las Vegas.

Watch Redd Foxx from the Merv Griffin Show in the mid-sixties. Redd had a very dirty act, this was his cleaned up material for TV.

 

Here's Redd's standup routine:

 

Redd Foxx was in the hot seat on an episode of the Dean Martin Roasts filmed at the MGM Casino and Showroom in the 1970s. He was also a popular guest on other Roasts like this one for Frank Sinatra.

 

Redd Foxx's funeral was held in the city he loved, Las Vegas and is buried at Palm Valley View Memorial Park. It is rumored that his ghost haunts his former home.

REDD FOXX

"We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with."
- Redd Foxx


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