Teenbeat Club
Encyclopedia
The Teenbeat Club in Paradise, Nevada
(Las Vegas
) located at 4416 Paradise Road, is believed to be the first U.S. nightclub
that catered exclusively to teenagers.
and Keith Austin, both 19 at the time and Las Vegas High School
graduates, where they were members of the 1962 Las Vegas High School Broadcasting Club. The Teenbeat Club ceased operation in 1968.
The club grew out of the dance concerts Miller and Austin promoted, featuring live KLAS
Radio broadcasts from the Knights of Columbus Hall and the National Guard Armory in Downtown Las Vegas
.
-influenced band. When the Teenbeat Club opened, The Teenbeats, were the house band featuring vocalist and rhythm guitarist Don Frassa, lead guitarist Larry Chernoff, bassist Lyle Smith, drummer Gary Karr, and Jim Logue on tenor sax. Elliot Lieb also played drums for The Checkmates and The Teenbeats prior to Gary Karr joining the group. The Lords a local rhythm & blues band, featuring Fred Cole
, sharing lead vocals with electric organist Hans Grebner (Johnny The German), and guitarist John Acquina, played the Teenbeat Club frequently in 1964 and 1965 as did The Coachmen
featuring lead vocalist, pianist and saxophonist Michael Wesley Dean, guitarist Matt Hyde, guitarist Jay Donnellan, bassist Terry Johnson and drummer James Kehn.
. In the mid-1960s, three LP albums were recorded live at the Teenbeat Club on La Brea/Sutton Records:The Goldtones, Live! At The Teenbeat Club In Las Vegas, (LS 8011), featuring Randy Seol, Wayne Purvis, Ken Naylor, Al Doss, Mike Peters, Steve Green and Cindy Mac; The Starfires
, Teenbeat A Go Go, (LS 8018), featuring Chuck Butler, Dave Anderson, Jack Emerick, Freddy Fields and Sonny Lathrop; and The Sentinals Vegas Go Go, (SSU 338). Southern California
surf rock bands which played the Teenbeat Club in the early 1960s included the Marketts, Surfer's Stomp and Out of Limits, The Lively Ones
, Surf Rider, The Routers
, Let's Go (Pony), The Challengers
, Surf Beat, and Chevell's, Let There Be Surf. The Templars
appeared in two International Scout advertisements taken in front of the Teenbeat Club marquee.The Bitter Sweets of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, also appeared in the mid-1960s.
In 1966, Miller and Austin co-produced two other 45 RPM singles, on Teenbeat Club Records, It's Your Time, and Little Girl on the B-side, (TB 1006), by The Weeds
, a local Las Vegas band, and a cover of the Rolling Stones, Get Off My Cloud, backed with Red Roses For A Blue Lady, featuring Charlie White Eagle, (TB 1004), with musical accompaniment and background vocals by The Weeds.
, a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter
, who later gained success in the Portland, Oregon
-based bands King Bee, Zipper, The Rats, Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows. Other members of The Weeds were lead guitarist Ed Bowen, rhythm guitarists Ron Buzzell and Dennis Wynne, bassist Bob Atkins, and drummer Tim Rockson.
The years 1966 and 1967 saw a renaissance of local Las Vegas electric rock, folk rock
and blues bands
in the Las Vegas Valley. Scatter Blues played the Teenbeat Club regularly which featured vocalist and blues harpist Piers Munro, vocalist and rhythm guitarist Bill Rosevear, bassists Scott Devitte, Brent Alverson and Bob Lucero; and drummer Rich Lowrey. Other frequently appearing local bands appearing at the Teenbeat Club in the mid-1960s were the Present Tense featuring vocalist Christopher Michael Hallman, bassist Michael P. Selinsky, lead guitarist Bob Lilley, Jr. rhythm guitarist John McDonnell, electric pianist Dennis Prell, and drummers John Baker and Jim Gannon. The Sioux Uprising, featuring lead vocalist and guitarist Gregory Albert Waller, bassist Steve Armstead, guitarist Michael Murray and drummer Scott Wolfe;
Nobody's Children featuring Joe Spitale, Enrique Corro, Greg McKenzie, Danny Bolling, Danny Harlow, Charlie Perri and Jay Painter; and Misty Souls Ray Campbell, Chris Riecke, Kerry Kline and Frank Faroush were other Las Vegas regulars to play the Teenbeat Club during this time period.
in 1966 and 1967. The 1966 Battle of the Bands
featured Scatter Blues, The Weeds, Present Tense and Nobody's Children was won by Scatter Bluesin audience balloting. The 1967 Battle of the Bands
, between fourteen local bands,(The Association of Sound, Blues Print, Calico Blues, Curtains of Grey, The Glass Door, Living End, The Moors, Nazz, The Neighborhood Kids, The New Breed, Nobody's Children, The Nomads, The Strawberry Patch, and The Wurdswas won by the Calico Blues Band, featuring guitarist Vaughn Thomas Munshower, organist Scott Devitte, bassist Mike Badik, vocalist Gary Meridith, and drummer Russell King. Munshower and Devitte later won Emmy Awards for Camerawork and Technical Lighting Direction, respectively.. The Little People
, featuring Mike Lyman, Steve Harvey, Mike Friedman, Glenn Cooper, and Howie SalsteinLondon Fog, featuring Bob Lilley Jr., Mike Lyman, Mike Friedman, Mark Leonard, Jessica Kluger (Marciel), and Georgiann Rock; and Free Circus, featuring Roby Bennett, Jessica Kluger (Marciel), Danny Barnett, Bob Bjornsen and Larry Gann, performed in the final year of the Teenbeat Club, 1968.
Notable Hollywood, CA area bands which played the TC included Love
with Arthur Lee
My Little Black Book, Orange Skies, and 7 And 7 Is
(with Scatter Blues as their opening act)., Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Outsiders
, Time Won't Let Me and Hamilton Street Car. The Standells
Dirty Water, from San Luis Obispo, CA also performed in 1966.
From 1962 through 1966, Miller and Austin hosted the Teen Beat Club Television Show on KLAS-TV
,Channel 8, that included live weekly interviews and dancing, patterned after Dick Clark's American Bandstand
. The live broadcasts featured such guest artists as Frankie Avalon
, The Beach Boys
, Dorsey Burnette
, Vic Dana
, Dick and Dee Dee, Little Richard
, Trini Lopez
, Wayne Newton
, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Shillings,Keely Smith
, Bobby Vee
, Bobby Vinton
and Timi Yuro
that featured The Beach Boys, Sonny Charles
and The Checkmates Ltd., Dick and Dee Dee, Jackie DeShannon
, Tom Jones
, Lou Rawls
, Bobby Rydell
, Neil Sedaka
, Surfaris, Three Dog Night
and Bobby Vinton. They also co-promoted the first Las Vegas appearances of the Grateful Dead
and Santana
at the Las Vegas Ice Palace in 1969.
Steve Miller later served as a Las Vegas City Council member from 1987 to 1991. He was inducted by the Nevada Broadcasters Association
into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998.
Keith Austin relocated to Santa Barbara, California
, where he continues his career in the recording industry as Executive Producer and Host of The Rock Files.
Paradise, Nevada
Paradise is an unincorporated town in the Las Vegas metropolitan area in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 223,167 at the 2010 census...
(Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
) located at 4416 Paradise Road, is believed to be the first U.S. nightclub
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
that catered exclusively to teenagers.
History
The club was opened in 1962 by Steve MillerSteve Miller (columnist)
Steve Miller is a former Las Vegas city councilman and currently a columnist for AmericanMafia.com, an online magazine.-Early life and career :Miller was born in California and raised in Las Vegas. He graduated in 1962 from Las Vegas High School....
and Keith Austin, both 19 at the time and Las Vegas High School
Las Vegas High School
Las Vegas High School is a public high school in unincorporated Sunrise Manor, Nevada, United States, and a part of the Clark County School District. It is the oldest high school in Las Vegas, originally opening in 1931 on what was originally the outskirts of town...
graduates, where they were members of the 1962 Las Vegas High School Broadcasting Club. The Teenbeat Club ceased operation in 1968.
The club grew out of the dance concerts Miller and Austin promoted, featuring live KLAS
KLAS-TV
KLAS-TV, virtual channel 8 , is the CBS-affiliated television station serving the Las Vegas, Nevada market; it is owned and operated by Landmark Media Enterprises...
Radio broadcasts from the Knights of Columbus Hall and the National Guard Armory in Downtown Las Vegas
Downtown Las Vegas
Downtown Las Vegas is the central business district of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the original gambling district of Las Vegas, prior to the Strip, and the area still incorporates downtown gaming.-Tourism:...
.
House band
The broadcasts featured The Teenbeats, a local Las Vegas surf musicSurf music
Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Orange County and other areas of Southern California. It was particularly popular between 1961 and 1965, has subsequently been revived and was highly influential on subsequent rock music...
-influenced band. When the Teenbeat Club opened, The Teenbeats, were the house band featuring vocalist and rhythm guitarist Don Frassa, lead guitarist Larry Chernoff, bassist Lyle Smith, drummer Gary Karr, and Jim Logue on tenor sax. Elliot Lieb also played drums for The Checkmates and The Teenbeats prior to Gary Karr joining the group. The Lords a local rhythm & blues band, featuring Fred Cole
Fred Cole
Fred Cole is the singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band Pierced Arrows and formerly Dead Moon.-The Lords:In 1964, Cole began his recording career in Las Vegas with his band, The Lords, at the Teenbeat Club, releasing a single called "Ain't Got No Self-Respect." His next single, from 1965,...
, sharing lead vocals with electric organist Hans Grebner (Johnny The German), and guitarist John Acquina, played the Teenbeat Club frequently in 1964 and 1965 as did The Coachmen
The Coachmen
The Coachmen were a lower-Manhattan "progressive garage-rock" band that performed from early 1978 to their final gig at White Columns in August, 1980. The line-up included guitarists Thurston Moore and J. D. King, bassist Bob Pullin, and Danny Walworth on drums, replaced by Dave Keay . Briefly,...
featuring lead vocalist, pianist and saxophonist Michael Wesley Dean, guitarist Matt Hyde, guitarist Jay Donnellan, bassist Terry Johnson and drummer James Kehn.
Teenbeat Records
Miller and Austin co-produced 45 RPM singles from 1962 to 1966. The first, by The Teenbeats titled Surf Bound, was written by Larry Chernoff and recorded on Teenbeat RecordsTeenBeat Records
Teen Beat is an independent record label, originally based in Arlington, VA, now based in Cambridge, MA. It was founded by Mark Robinson in 1984 at Wakefield High School along with Phil Krauth , Andrew Beaujon , Tim Moran , and Ian Zack .The label was originally set up like a lending library...
. In the mid-1960s, three LP albums were recorded live at the Teenbeat Club on La Brea/Sutton Records:The Goldtones, Live! At The Teenbeat Club In Las Vegas, (LS 8011), featuring Randy Seol, Wayne Purvis, Ken Naylor, Al Doss, Mike Peters, Steve Green and Cindy Mac; The Starfires
The Starfires
The Starfires was an American garage rock band from Los Angeles, that is best known for one of the most sought-after singles of the mid-1960s, "I Never Loved Her", which can command prices of $1000 or more...
, Teenbeat A Go Go, (LS 8018), featuring Chuck Butler, Dave Anderson, Jack Emerick, Freddy Fields and Sonny Lathrop; and The Sentinals Vegas Go Go, (SSU 338). Southern California
Southern California
Southern California is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles and Greater San Diego. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego...
surf rock bands which played the Teenbeat Club in the early 1960s included the Marketts, Surfer's Stomp and Out of Limits, The Lively Ones
The Lively Ones
The Lively Ones were an American instrumental surf rock band active in Southern California in the 1960s. They played live mostly in California and Arizona. They recorded for Del-Fi records with production from Bob Keane...
, Surf Rider, The Routers
The Routers
-Career:Formed in 1962 by Mike Gordon, the Routers recordings sometimes used session musicians in addition to the actual group with the exception of Gordon who played on most the sessions. The Routers first release in September 1962 was the guitar-driven instrumental "Let's Go ", which reached #19...
, Let's Go (Pony), The Challengers
The Challengers (band)
The Challengers were an instrumental surf music band started in late 1962. They were located in Los Angeles. They represented a growing love for surf music and helped make the genre popular...
, Surf Beat, and Chevell's, Let There Be Surf. The Templars
The Templars (band)
The Templars are an Oi! band formed in Long Island, New York in April 1991.Originally composed of black and white skinhead members, their musical influences include Oi!, punk, glam rock, and rock and roll. They have tended to purposely use low-quality recording techniques...
appeared in two International Scout advertisements taken in front of the Teenbeat Club marquee.The Bitter Sweets of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, also appeared in the mid-1960s.
The Lollipop Shoppe
The Lollipop Shoppe were a 1960s psychedelic garage rock band from Portland, Oregon .They were originally known as The Weeds and featured Fred Cole, best known for playing in Dead Moon. He now plays in Pierced Arrows...
, a local Las Vegas band, and a cover of the Rolling Stones, Get Off My Cloud, backed with Red Roses For A Blue Lady, featuring Charlie White Eagle, (TB 1004), with musical accompaniment and background vocals by The Weeds.
Regular performers
The Weeds were frequent performers at the Teenbeat Club from 1965 through 1966, featuring Fred ColeFred Cole
Fred Cole is the singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band Pierced Arrows and formerly Dead Moon.-The Lords:In 1964, Cole began his recording career in Las Vegas with his band, The Lords, at the Teenbeat Club, releasing a single called "Ain't Got No Self-Respect." His next single, from 1965,...
, a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, who later gained success in the Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
-based bands King Bee, Zipper, The Rats, Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows. Other members of The Weeds were lead guitarist Ed Bowen, rhythm guitarists Ron Buzzell and Dennis Wynne, bassist Bob Atkins, and drummer Tim Rockson.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
and blues bands
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
in the Las Vegas Valley. Scatter Blues played the Teenbeat Club regularly which featured vocalist and blues harpist Piers Munro, vocalist and rhythm guitarist Bill Rosevear, bassists Scott Devitte, Brent Alverson and Bob Lucero; and drummer Rich Lowrey. Other frequently appearing local bands appearing at the Teenbeat Club in the mid-1960s were the Present Tense featuring vocalist Christopher Michael Hallman, bassist Michael P. Selinsky, lead guitarist Bob Lilley, Jr. rhythm guitarist John McDonnell, electric pianist Dennis Prell, and drummers John Baker and Jim Gannon. The Sioux Uprising, featuring lead vocalist and guitarist Gregory Albert Waller, bassist Steve Armstead, guitarist Michael Murray and drummer Scott Wolfe;
Battle of the Bands
The Teenbeat Club sponsored Battle of the BandsBattle of the Bands
Battle of Bands is a contest in which two or more bands compete for the title of "best band". The winner is determined by a panel of judges, the general response of the audience, or a combination. The winning band usually receives a prize in addition to bragging rights. Traditionally, battles of...
in 1966 and 1967. The 1966 Battle of the Bands
Battle of the Bands
Battle of Bands is a contest in which two or more bands compete for the title of "best band". The winner is determined by a panel of judges, the general response of the audience, or a combination. The winning band usually receives a prize in addition to bragging rights. Traditionally, battles of...
featured Scatter Blues, The Weeds, Present Tense and Nobody's Children was won by Scatter Bluesin audience balloting. The 1967 Battle of the Bands
Battle of the Bands
Battle of Bands is a contest in which two or more bands compete for the title of "best band". The winner is determined by a panel of judges, the general response of the audience, or a combination. The winning band usually receives a prize in addition to bragging rights. Traditionally, battles of...
, between fourteen local bands,(The Association of Sound, Blues Print, Calico Blues, Curtains of Grey, The Glass Door, Living End, The Moors, Nazz, The Neighborhood Kids, The New Breed, Nobody's Children, The Nomads, The Strawberry Patch, and The Wurdswas won by the Calico Blues Band, featuring guitarist Vaughn Thomas Munshower, organist Scott Devitte, bassist Mike Badik, vocalist Gary Meridith, and drummer Russell King. Munshower and Devitte later won Emmy Awards for Camerawork and Technical Lighting Direction, respectively.. The Little People
The Little People
"The Little People" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:Astronauts William Fletcher and Peter Craig – each of whom happens to be the chief thorn in the other's side – set down in a canyon on another planet to repair their ship...
, featuring Mike Lyman, Steve Harvey, Mike Friedman, Glenn Cooper, and Howie SalsteinLondon Fog, featuring Bob Lilley Jr., Mike Lyman, Mike Friedman, Mark Leonard, Jessica Kluger (Marciel), and Georgiann Rock; and Free Circus, featuring Roby Bennett, Jessica Kluger (Marciel), Danny Barnett, Bob Bjornsen and Larry Gann, performed in the final year of the Teenbeat Club, 1968.
Notable Hollywood, CA area bands which played the TC included Love
Love (band)
Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer/songwriter Arthur Lee and lead guitarist Johnny Echols...
with Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee (musician)
Arthur Lee was the frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles rock band Love, best known for the critically acclaimed 1967 album, Forever Changes.-Early years:...
My Little Black Book, Orange Skies, and 7 And 7 Is
7 and 7 Is
"7 and 7 Is" is a song written by Arthur Lee and recorded by his band Love on June 20, 1966, at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood. It was produced by Jac Holzman and engineered by Bruce Botnick....
(with Scatter Blues as their opening act)., Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Outsiders
The Outsiders (American band)
The Outsiders was an American rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, that was founded and led by guitarist Tom King. The band is best known for its Top 5 hit "Time Won't Let Me" in early 1966, which peaked at #5 in the US, but the band had three other hit singles in 1966 and released a total of...
, Time Won't Let Me and Hamilton Street Car. The Standells
The Standells
The Standells are a garage rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in the 1960s, who have been referred to as the "Godfathers of Punk Rock", and are best known for their 1966 hit "Dirty Water," now the anthem of several Boston sports teams.-The 1960s:...
Dirty Water, from San Luis Obispo, CA also performed in 1966.
KLAS-TV
KLAS-TV, virtual channel 8 , is the CBS-affiliated television station serving the Las Vegas, Nevada market; it is owned and operated by Landmark Media Enterprises...
,Channel 8, that included live weekly interviews and dancing, patterned after Dick Clark's American Bandstand
American Bandstand
American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer...
. The live broadcasts featured such guest artists as Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon is an American actor, singer, playwright, and former teen idol.-Career:By the time he was 12, Avalon was on U.S. television playing his trumpet. As a teenager he played with Bobby Rydell in Rocco and the Saints...
, The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
, Dorsey Burnette
Dorsey Burnette
Dorsey Burnette was an early Rockabilly singer. With his younger brother, Johnny Burnette, and a friend named Paul Burlison, he was a founder member of The Rock and Roll Trio.-Background and early career:Dorsey Burnett was born on December 28, 1932 to Willie May and Dorsey Burnett Sr...
, Vic Dana
Vic Dana
Vic Dana is an American dancer and singer.Discovered by Sammy Davis, Jr., Dana was an excellent dancer , and was encouraged by Davis to move to Los Angeles to further his career. With the decline of dancing as a form of entertainment Dana initiated a singing career. He is best known for his 1965...
, Dick and Dee Dee, Little Richard
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...
, Trini Lopez
Trini Lopez
Trini Lopez is an American singer, guitarist and actor.-Career:Lopez was born in Dallas, Texas, on Ashland Street in the Little Mexico neighborhood. He began his entertainment career in Dallas playing at the Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby...
, Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton is an American singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He performed over 30,000 solo shows in Las Vegas over a period of over 40 years, earning him the nicknames The Midnight Idol, Mr. Las Vegas and Mr. Entertainment...
, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Shillings,Keely Smith
Keely Smith
Keely Smith is an American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. She collaborated with, among others, Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra.-Career:...
, Bobby Vee
Bobby Vee
Robert Thomas Velline , known as Bobby Vee, is an American pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine, Vee has had 38 Hot 100 chart hits, 10 of which hit the Top 20.-Career:...
, Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton is an American pop music singer of Polish origin. In pop music circles, he became known as "The Polish Prince".-Early life:...
and Timi Yuro
Timi Yuro
Timi Yuro was an American soul and R&B singer. She is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era.-Early years:...
Dance concerts
From 1963 through 1968, Miller and Austin also promoted dance concerts held at the Las Vegas Convention CenterLas Vegas Convention Center
The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority in Las Vegas, Nevada....
that featured The Beach Boys, Sonny Charles
Sonny Charles
Sonny Charles is an American soul singer from Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was the lead singer of Checkmates, Ltd...
and The Checkmates Ltd., Dick and Dee Dee, Jackie DeShannon
Jackie DeShannon
Jackie DeShannon is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period.- Life and early career :...
, Tom Jones
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
, Lou Rawls
Lou Rawls
Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls was an American soul, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game"...
, Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell is an American professional singer, mainly of rock and roll music. In the early 1960s he was considered a so-called "teen idol"...
, Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard...
, Surfaris, Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night is an American rock band best known for their music from 1968 to 1975. During that time the band charted 21 Billboard top 40 hits in America, three of which reached Number One...
and Bobby Vinton. They also co-promoted the first Las Vegas appearances of the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
and Santana
Santana (band)
Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...
at the Las Vegas Ice Palace in 1969.
Founders Miller and Austin
The original Teenbeat Club building still stands, but it is now an adult topless cabaret, Club Paradise, located across the street and just east of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.Steve Miller later served as a Las Vegas City Council member from 1987 to 1991. He was inducted by the Nevada Broadcasters Association
Nevada Broadcasters Association
The Nevada Broadcasters Association is a trade association for radio and television broadcast stations in the U.S. state of Nevada.It seeks to educate consumers about the impending change to digital television broadcasting in Nevada and the rest of the United States...
into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998.
Keith Austin relocated to Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
, where he continues his career in the recording industry as Executive Producer and Host of The Rock Files.