The album includes songs and highlights from the closing night show on January 14 th. Motown lovers might enjoy The Supremes Farewell album, recorded live during their final two-week show at the Frontier Hotel in January, 1970. 2 album recorded in the Congo Room of the Sahara Hotel in 1974. If you enjoy Sonny and Cher be sure to check out their Live in Las Vegas, Vol. One recorded in 1969, Tom Jones Live in Las Vegas and the other, Tom Jones Live at Caesars Palace in 1971. Other well-worth listening to live albums include both of singer Tom Jones’ live albums. Recorded live at the Casbah Lounge at the Sahara Hotel, if you want to know why this group was the “hottest group in the country, in the world” as Sam Butera liked to say, this album provides the answer. Louis Prima, Keely Smith and Sam Butera and the Witnesses’ Las Vegas Prima Style is a wonderful historic record of this ground-breaking group’s Las Vegas show. They had worked their way up from playing The Pussycat A-Go-Go to Nero’s Nook to the most prestious showroom on the Strip (at that time) and this album catches them at that transcendent moment.

My mother was the head waitress in the Circus Maximus showroom back when the Checkmates were the hottest group on the Strip. The Checkmates Live at Caesars Palace! is one of my favorites. There are some great albums that were recorded back in the day. We were asked the other day what is the one “Live from Las Vegas” album that best personifies the classic Las Vegas show experience.

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