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Pastimes : Come Play With Me - 'Name That Tune' -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nittany Lion who wrote (9344)	5/9/2000 4:18:00 PM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10709

Gary - I thought you were kidding about Monte Rock III having a hit. but I did find this brief description from an unfortunately dead link MEET THE MAN WHO FIRED BILLY JOEL LAS VEGAS (Wireless Flash) -- Singer Billy Joel turns 50 on Sunday (May 9) and one person who will be toasting the "Piano Man," is the man who fired him in 1971. Monte Rock III -- who recorded the 1974 hit "Get Dancin Did he really have a band called "Disco Tex and the Sex-o-Lettes"? Another interesting piece of useless trivia is that Monte Rock III was the hairstylist for Timothy Leary's bride at his 1964 wedding. Bet you didn't know that. After Timothy Leary had left Harvard, the apostle of the subculture moved into a country estate in Millbrook to set up a commune with a number of his friends. Here Leary married the model Nanette van Schlebrugge in 1964. The Miles Davis Quartet played at their wedding, without Miles though, and jazz legend Charles Mingus delivered a speech about conjugal fidelity. Other guests were Peggy Hitchcock, her brothers Billy and Tommy, writer friends and members of European royal families. The Puerto Rican showbiz hair stylist Monte Rock 111, who did Nanette's hair, brought the Maysles brothers to Millbrook to capture the wedding. This film, for which D.A. Pennebaker did the camera work, was even shown in the art house circuit for a while. To the question how Leary would want to be remembered, he answered much later: 'in the Guiness Book of Records, as best husband in the universe'