The Featured Performers
This blog is about car shows and there were a few cars but I went with my camera and and wasn’t returning without ‘a few photos’ (say, 721 images). The music was definitely in the spirit of Cruise Nights and nostalgia.
Paul Gattuso really out did himself bringing all together Joe ‘Elvis’ Tirrito, Steve ‘Neil Diamond’ Richards and Nick ‘Tom Jones’ Miller nm for a summertime concert at Westbrook Commons shopping center. It was an amazing show with each performer singing many of their counterpart’s familiar tunes. There were too many songs to show here so I chose my favorites. And I must report that as Joe ‘Elvis’ Tirrito was singing the Tina Turner song Proud Mary, the power went out so the true showman he is, ‘Elvis’ treated us to almost three full perfomances of it!. Then some fellow in the front row asked for an encore of Proud Mary! Listen to Presley’s version here. I’d hoped to hear Girl Happy, an Elvis tune which Joe’s earlier performance sparked a memory so here’s a link to that from my 6-25-2012 Cruise Night page.
I have an unusual Elvis Army story of my own involving my step-uncle at one of my other blogs.
Teaser photo gallery
More photos are here (but not yet complete. I took over a hundred images of each man so it’ll be a bit of time before I edit all).
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| Here are three of the tunes ‘Tom Jones’, attired in a white shirt, sang (scroll down or listen here) | Here are three songs , ‘Neil Diamond, wearing a red shirt, belted out (scroll down or listen here) |
| It’s Not Unusual | Sweet Caroline |
| What’s New Pussycat | Cracklin’ Rosie |
| She’s A Lady | Song Sung Blue |
| Three of Joe “Elvis’ (whom I captured at an earlier Cruise Night) gave us (scroll down or listen here) tunes were: | The three teamed up for some of Elvis’ movie tunes and knocked it outa the park (scroll down or listen here) |
| Suspicious Mind | Rock A Hula |
| Teddy Bear | C’mon Everybody |
| Fools Rush In | Viva Las Vegas |
Tom Jones
Neil Diamond
Elvis Presley
All three performers sang these Elvis numbers
Joe ‘Elvis’ Tirrito
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Nick ‘Tom Jones’ Miller
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Steve ‘Neil Diamond’ Richards
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