Watt said that "rock bands" that had performed on the Mall on Independence Day in 19 had encouraged drug use and alcoholism and had attracted "the wrong element", who would mug individuals and families attending any similar events in the future. Watt, President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, banned Independence Day concerts on the Mall by such groups. From Detroit, " Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" took off and broke nationwide.įrom 1980 through 1982, The Beach Boys and The Grass Roots performed Independence Day concerts on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., attracting large crowds. Influential music director Rosalie Trombley of Canadian station CKLW "The Big 8" radio in the Detroit area decided to add the record to her radio station to embarrass her ex-husband, who wasn't faithful about seeing his children, as Trombley explained in the documentary Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Big 8. In 1972 his recording of "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. After his job with Benny ended, Newton was offered a job to open for another comic at the Flamingo Hotel, but Newton asked for, and was given, a headline act. In particular, Benny hired Newton as an opening act for his show. Many prominent entertainment icons such as Lucille Ball, Bobby Darin, Danny Thomas, George Burns, and Jack Benny lent Newton their support. In the early to mid-1960s, Wayne also acted and sang as "Andy" the baby-faced Ponderosa ranch hand on the classic western TV series, Bonanza. He would perform on Gleason's show 12 times over the following two years. On September 29, 1962, they first performed on The Jackie Gleason Show. Originally signed for two weeks, the brothers eventually performed for five years, doing six shows a day. In the spring of 1958, near the end of his junior year of high school, a Las Vegas booking agent saw Newton on a local TV show, Lew King Rangers Show, on which the two Newton brothers were performing and took them back for an audition. The brothers, as the Rascals in Rhythm, appeared with the Grand Ole Opry roadshows and on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee and performed for the president and auditioned unsuccessfully for Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour. However, Newton's severe asthma forced his family to move to Phoenix in 1952, where he graduated from North High School. He began singing in local clubs, theaters, and fairs with his older brother, Jerry. While he was a child, his family moved to near Newark, Ohio. Navy during World War II, Newton spent his early years in Roanoke, learning the piano, guitar, and steel guitar at age six. Newton has stated that his mother is half German and Cherokee and his father half Irish and Powhatan. He is of Irish, German, and Native American ancestry, descendant of Pocahontas. He was born Carson Wayne Newton in Norfolk, Virginia, to Patrick Newton, an auto mechanic, and his wife, Evelyn Marie "Smith" (née Plasters).
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