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YOUR NO.1 NEIL SEDAKA RESOURCE GROUP ONLINE!
Celebrating 4 years as your NO.1 Neil sedaka resource group online!
Latest updates November 20th 2008
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Managers of TNSAS: Dan White.Laura Pinto
TNSAS has been online since october 2nd 2004
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TNSAS is not associated with any Neil Sedaka management, group or web site
TNSAS gathers most information within from personal and private resources
TNSAS gathers some information within from Neil's official web site
THANKS FOR YOUR DEDICATED SUPPORT, INTEREST & INPUT TO TNSAS !!
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Latest Sedaka News!
NEIL TO APPEAR ON QVC ON NOVEMBER 25TH!!!!
11.18.08
Neil will be appearing on QVC's "Countdown to Christmas" on Tuesday, November 25th. Neil will be promoting "The Miracle of Christmas", in addition to his upcoming release "Waking Up is Hard to Do".
Neil is expected to appear between 8AM & 10AM (EST). Please check your local listings.
HOLIDAY CHEER AT THE NEIL SEDAKA STORE!
11.11.08
Your holiday shopping through Neil’s online store is an easy and convenient way to fulfill that Christmas Gift list, no traffic to fight through and no parking hassles at the mall.... Buy online and save time and money! These great holiday promotions are available through December 31.
Receive a free subscription (3 months) to Entertainment Weekly magazine with every purchase.
Free Shipping with the purchase of any two items.
Save 20% on all CDs & DVDs!
Please note: The Entertainment Weekly subscription and free shipping offers are for US residents only. The free shipping promotion is for standard shipping only.
"WAKING UP IS HARD TO DO" SET FOR JANUARY 6, 2009 RELEASE!
11.03.08
Neil is set to release his long-awaited Children's Album "Waking Up is Hard to Do" on January 6, 2009 thru Razor and Tie Entertainment. "Waking Up is Hard to Do" is a collection of Sedaka Classics that have been reinvented as Children's Songs. The CD will also be accompanied by a coloring book.
Please continue to check back for more information surrounding this exciting release.
RADIO BROADCAST PREMIERE OF "JOIE DE VIVRE" ON WQXR
10.09.08
Neil recently completed an interview with Vinny Marino for WQXR, discussing Neil's symphonic composistion "Joie De Vivre". The interview will air on 96.3FM in New York, NY in the 8AM hour on Monday, October 13th.
For all of our friends around the world, you can listen to the interview Monday on the internet. Please click here.
THE VERY BEST OF NEIL SEDAKA: THE SHOW GOES ON - CHARTS 54 ON THE ARIA CHART IN AUSTRALIA!!!!
05.16.08
On the heels of Neil's successful Australia Tour, Universal's release of "The Very Best of Neil Sedaka: The Show Goes On" debuted at 54 on the Australian Record Industry Assosciation (ARIA) chart.
Neil last charted on ARIA in December, 1998 with "Anthology: Four Decades of Hits".
"The Very Best of Neil Sedaka: The Show Goes On" is available wherever CD's are sold.
For more information, please click here.
WAKING UP IS HARD TO DO!!!!
05.01.08
Coming soon from Hasbro Toys, its the Turbo Tooth Tunes Toothbrush, featuring Neil Sedaka's "Waking Up is Hard To Do".
Inspired by Neil's classic hit "Breaking Up is Hard to Do", and his grandchildren, this tooth brush sends sound vibrations from the bristles through your teeth, so you can hear the music inside your head. Click here for a preview of the ToothBrush.
A release date for this wonderful new product will be announced shortly! Please check back.
Neil Sedaka On Tour
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Mar 1, 2008 - 11:33:29 AM
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Neil Sedaka, Grammy awarded singer-songwriter and international hit-maker is touring Australia with his band and State Symphony Orchestras for concerts in Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney from 29 April to 11 May.
Neil is a prolific songwriter and sophisticated performer with an extraordinary vocal range, who has produced an immense catalogue of melodic and timeless Rock n' Roll Classics -
Oh! Carol, Laughter In the Rain, Stupid Cupid, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Little Devil, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Next Door to An Angel, The Diary, Calendar Girl, Solitaire, Love Will Keep Us Together, The Hungry Years, Bad Blood, (Is This The Way To) Amarillo, Stairway To Heaven, Should've Never Let You Go, Wheel in West Virginia, Star Crossed Lovers, That's When The Music Takes Me and more.
Acknowledged as a musical genius, Neil's undiminished soundscape has remained relevant across decades and genres and his numerous honours include a Grammy (and 5 nominations), a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, inductions into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, National Academy of Popular Music Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, BMI Awards and a Brooklyn street name.
In 2006, Neil received the UK's Guinness Award for Best Selling Single of the 21st Century for (Is This The Way To) Amarillo, originally written for Tony Christie almost forty years ago. Neil Sedaka: 50 Years of Hits was a 2007 star-studded celebratory Tribute concert held at the Lincoln Centre, with Connie Francis, Natalie Cole, The Captain and Tennille and others, to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
The son of a New York taxi driver, Neil resided with eleven family members in a two bedroom Brooklyn apartment and from the age of eight, studied classical piano at the prestigious Julliard School of Music.
Neil was only thirteen when he formed a songwriting partnership that was to span decades, with sixteen year old Howard Greenfield and had his first song published. He'd started the Doo-Wop band The Tokens to gain peer acceptance on the side, while he considered a Doctorate in Music but it was the wild student reaction to his High School Rock n' Roll concert debut, that decided his career path.
In the late fifties and still a teenager, Neil and Howard created the original "Brill Building sound" and were catapulted to stardom with the iconic music hub's first hit, Stupid Cupid recorded by Connie Francis. They sold twenty-five million records between 1959 and 1963 and gave Connie her biggest chart success, the theme to the summer break movie Where The Boys Are.
Neil was blessed with career success as a solo artist and Gold and Platinum albums until the decline of the American music industry from the Beatles led "British Invasion". He survived the UK blitz on the US charts by writing hits for Tom Jones (Puppet Man), The Fifth Dimension (Workin' On A Groovy Thing) and The Monkees (When Love Comes Knocking at Your Door) and others.
In the early seventies, he relocated to England on the strength of audience support for his live performances and redefined himself, releasing the chart toppers That's When The Music Takes Me and the decade's biggest single Laughter In The Rain.
Neil signed with Elton John's emerging Rocket Records and heralded his home-coming with Sedaka's Back in 1974 and The Hungry Years, a year later. Both were highly successful albums in the US, producing 1 hits with Bad Blood and Laughter in The Rain. When Neil re-recorded Breaking Up is Hard to Do as a ballad, he made music history when the single shot to the top of the charts - the first song recorded in two versions by the same artist to reach 1 for a second time.
Love Will Keep Us Together was a global hit for The Captain and Tennille, winning the Grammy Award for 1975 Record of the Year and was the Most Broadcast Song on radio in 1976. A diverse range of artists have also covered Neil's compositions from Peggy Lee, Dame Shirley Bassey, Carole King, Petula Clark & Abba to Sheryl Crow, Rita Coolidge, Rosemary Clooney, Elvis Presley, Johnny Mathis, Wayne Newton, John Travolta & The Carpenters.
In the nineties, Neil recorded the now certified Gold Classically Sedaka album and performed with Orchestras all over the world. On this Australian tour, he has added two Musical Directors, Dick Palombi and Lee Holdridge, also studio, stage and screen legends, who will conduct the Greatest Hits and Classical Sedaka World Premiere of the symphonic piece, Joie De Vivre.
Don't miss out on the magic that is Neil Sedaka in Concert with his band and State Symphony Orchestras from 29 April to 11 May. Tickets are on-sale now so mark the dates in The Diary and ….. do-run-run-run, do-do-run-run!
Beginning on April 29, 2008, Neil will be embarking on a four city Symphony Tour of Australia.
Neil will be returning to Australia for the first time since 2005 and is looking forward to seeing all of his Australian fans.
Neil's Australia Tour:
April 29th - Adellaide, AU - Adelaide Theater
May 2-3 - Perth, AU - Perth Convention Centre
May 5-6 - Melbourne, AU - Hamer Hall
May 9-11 - Sydney, AU - Sydney Opera House
TNSAS will be posting more dates as we get them in!
PR News: Hit Parade Hall of Fame Announces First Inductees
01/02/08
11:38:37 am Hit Parade Hall of Fame Announces First Inductees
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In 2006, former senior radio executive, John Rook, grew an idea to honor recording artists from all venues and walks of life with his friend Gil Bateman, a former recording executive. So, in 2007 they asked the world, through the internet, who should be honored.
Amazingly, more than 63,000 votes were cast in 2007 on www.hitparadehalloffame.org from around the world. Fans had over 100 nominees to choose from and the judges have indicated that twenty-eight recording artists will be inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
Here are the winners that fans worldwide received the biggest number of votes. Alphabetically, the 2007 first inductees are: Paul Anka, The Beatles,
Tony Bennett, Pat Boone, Beach Boys, Teresa Brewer, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Chubby Checker, Jimmy Clanton, Nat "King" Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond, Fats Domino, Four Seasons, Aretha Franklin, Connie Francis, Brenda Lee, Johnny Mathis, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Patti Page, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross & the Supremes; Neil Sedaka, and Frank Sinatra.
With 18% of all votes coming from outside the United States, Elvis Presley topped all nominees. Fan clubs played a major role in the voting according to Hit Parade Hall of Fame creator's Gil Bateman and John Rook.
"We're thrilled with the response we've had from the public as we are still in our infancy and it appears that our voting numbers will grow as our young organization becomes more widely known," said founders John Rook and Gil Bateman.
The next step beyond the voting is to build a hall of fame bricks and mortar
structure. Presently, the organization is speaking with two or three individuals and municipalities as to where to locate the hit Parade Hall of Fame.
In January of each year voting begins for a new group of nominees. In 2008 we will be focusing on three decades beginning in 1950. Each nominee is required to have at least two Top 10 hits, singles or album of any genre.
Besides voting for recording stars already nominated, visitors to the Hit Parade Hall of Fame website are also encouraged to suggest the names of future nominees. In the past year, fans gave the nominating committee more than five hundred names to consider.
Once nominated a recording artist has three years to gain enough votes for induction into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. A total of eighty-two 2007 nominees continue to vie for votes with sixty-two new nominees joining them in 2008. For more information, please visit www.hitparadehalloffame.org or call John Rook at (208) 664-4014.
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