https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=I1ZgaQNp4Is Gary Lewis and the Playboys was our Friday night program at Lakeside. This clip is from 2016, and the band looks the same, and he sounds much the same. He’s just as skinny as he was in his 20s. He was born in 1945, so he’s up there in years for live performing. When his career was going strong in the 1960s he was drafted during the Vietnam War, and the career never really recovered, and for the teen market, you can’t let them forget you. According to several bios I’ve read, singing wasn’t his strength even in the 1960s, and he started performing as a drummer. Most of his performances today are for the nostalgia market. We noticed a number of boomers really enjoying themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAf3VavcVj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XXIJx4HmnY
Jerry Lewis, his father who died in 2017, disinherited all his children from his first marriage. Gary mentioned during the show that is mother is still alive and he dedicated a song to her.
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