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LAS VEGAS LEGENDS
Steve Lawrence
& Eydie Gorme

 


"Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I."
- Eydie Gorme

Frank Sinatra

Dean Martin

Sammy Davis Jr Story

Dean Martin Live in Las Vegas

Frank Sinatra
with Dean Martin

Playing with The Rat Pack 1960s & 70s
with Dean Martin

Las Vegas in 1977

John Oliver: Las Vegas Is the Worst Place on Earth!

Jerry Vale

More Jerry Vale

George Burns

Don Rickles' Last Carson Appearance

Joan Rivers vs Johnny Carson

Angie Dickinson

Remembering Bobby Darin

Who Killed Elvis?

Viva Las Vegas!

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Las Vegas1967

Elvis

Las Vegas in the 1950s

MORE Las Vegas in the 1950s

Lola Falana

Don Rickles

Don Rickles' Last Show

Don Rickles vs Merv Griffin

Sonny & Cher

The Supremes

Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows

Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy

Louis Prima

Pat Cooper

Johnny Carson

Mort Lindsey

Liberace

TV's The Las Vegas Show

Red Buttons

Ernest Borgnine on Frank & Dean

Harlan Ellison vs Frank Sinatra

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
Monte Carlo 1959

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

More on How Las Vegas Has Changed Over the Years

Vegas Fashion

Joan Rivers

Las Vegas Postcards

TV's The Magician and Las Vegas

BONUS: Garry Shandling in Las Vegas

Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme / Las Vegas Legend

"I had a lot of what they call turntable hits.
A lot of them."
- Eydie Gorme

Both together and separately Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were two of the most dynamic and elegant entertainers ever to grace the stage. Like Wayne Newton and Frank Sinatra they became synonymous with the town they loved. Steve and Eydie weren't just wedded to Las Vegas they were actually married there in 1957.

 

Eydie Gorme got her big break in 1953 when she auditioned with "The Steve Allen Show: "They asked me how many songs I knew, and I said 2,000," she recalls. "They took one look at me and weren't so sure. They were looking for a blonde, someone who looked like Marilyn Monroe. And I was, well, me. With my bangs. They said they would give me two weeks. And every two weeks they extended it. For four years."

"Green Eyes" was one of their signature tunes, an opportunity to show how equally adept at ballads and with the fast numbers. The New York Times wrote: They are the king and queen of the nightclub world, a remarkably durable team whose ballads and Broadway songs, whose glitzy style and Vegas patter is hardly competition for the Guns 'n' Roses crowd (although Eydie says that rock groups, most recently U2, regularly turn up backstage to ask, "How do we grab the audience without the fancy lighting and smoke?").

 

Their 1975 television special, "Our Love Is Here to Stay," won two Emmy Awards, while "Steve and Eydie Sing Irving Berlin," three years later won seven more. Here's the duo later in life singing with Frank Sinatra:

 

Steve & Eydie are inducted in the Gaming Hall of Fame; they were known to enjoy the Poker tables in Vegas and Lake Tahoe and were avid gamers. Their style reflected the elegance of the early days of Sin City, Ms. Gorme's gowns were designed by Bob Mackie and others.

In 2007 they recorded "Black Hole Sun" to great critical acclaim.

 

"A lot of people our age try to make the switch and do rock but if we came out in jeans and sneakers it would look ridiculous. We're stuck with who we are."
- Eydie Gorme, 1992

"Steve has the most
unbelievable range for a man that I've ever heard."

- Eydie Gorme


Steve Lawrence
& Eydie Gorme

YOUR GO-GO HOST: Billy Ingram

Punk Book
Punk - a look at the gay and Punk / post-Punk landscape in Los Angeles in 1980.

 

"Man, I really like Vegas." - Elvis

 

 


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