MATINEE SERIES
SPLISH SPLASH:
BOBBY DARIN TRIBUTE
Tuesday, February 11 • 1:30 p.m.
The Music of Bobby Darin
Starring Vegas Entertainer Ron Gartner and his swingin’ band!
BOBBY DARIN. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor in film and
television. He performed in a range of music genres, including jazz, pop,
rock’n’roll, folk, swing and country. He started in show business as a
songwriter for Connie Francis and achieved world fame in 1958 with his
own first million-seller “Splish Splash”. He died following a heart operation
in 1973 at the age of 37. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 1990, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and the Recording
Academy gave him a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010
Grammy Awards ceremony.
It has been said that had he lived, he would have been more famous than
Frank Sinatra. Darin was that multi-talented. In this special show, Vegas
entertainer Ron Gartner and his band honor the Darin legacy… singing the
songs of the swingin-est guy who ever put on a tux…in a show that covers
everything from Darin’s rock ‘n’ roll days to the evening at the Copa (with
a slight detour into Country, Folk and Political Activism). Finger-snappin’
songs like Mack The Knife, Dream Lover, Beyond the Sea, Artificial Flowers,
Queen of The Hop, Clementine, That’s All, and many many more!