Personality Plus Talent Management

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to find a more exciting entertainer than Early Clover.  Early was raised on a farm in Alabama and by the time he was seven knew he wanted to be a performer.  He made a guitar out of a 2x4 with hay for strings and began his career in the family barn.  He wasn't yet old enough to drive when he started his first band which would become the #1 band in the state, backing a variety of name entertainers.  In 1988 he headed to New York where he won the talent contest at The Apollo seven times and is in the Apollo Hall of Fame.  For the last ten years he has performed on the Las Vegas Strip at the Sahara Hotel with The Cornell Gunter Coasters where he is also the production manager of the show.  We are please to offer your audiences Early Clover: A Tribute to Legends and MoTown.

 In 1953 four young men were signed to a management contract by Buck Ram.  They called themselves The Platters.  Buck changed the line-up, added a girl's voice and wrote their top five hits.  He also produced and arranged all of their records.  By 1970 there were no original singers in the group was rebranded as The Buck Ram Platters so savvy bookers would know they were getting the quality show Ram had been bringing them for 18 years.   The group continued to record as The Platters, but the performing group has been known as The Buck Ram Platters for 38 of the group's 54 years.  Our line-up has changed many times since Tony Williams left in 1960, but The Buck Ram Platters continue to bring you the sophisticated, quality show Ram demanded using arrangements he approved.  The Buck Ram Platters

Marva Whitney, started singing gospel in her family church at age twelve.  By her early twenties James Brown had crowned her Soul Sister #1.  With several hit records to her credit including "It's My Thing,"  Marva took time off to raise her family, but she's back, and  happy to return to her roots in gospel when she is not getting down with the funk she is famous for most frequently with the Japanese James Brown tribute band, Osaka Monorail.  

 "Sugar Shack," "Bottle of Wine," "Carioca" - what memories The Fireballs evoke.  The group got its name in 1958 after performing "Great Balls of Fire" at the Raton High School PTA talent contest in New Mexico, and became the first band from New Mexico to achieve international fame.  They appeared on American Bandstand in 1960 and 1961, and on Dick Clark's Saturday Night show too.  In 1963 "Sugar Shack" became the #1 song of the year.  In 1968 "Bottle of Wine" was a top 10 hit.  And in 2005 the Stae of New Mexico declared January 20, "The Fireballs Day."

 With no formal music training but a deep love of early Rock 'n Roll hits, Jim Mann began his career on a Daytona Beach Spring Break when friends challenged him to participate in a talent contest "because with glasses you'd look just like Buddy Holly."  Jim took his friends up on the challenge and won the contest, and every one he entered afterward.  He performed around Daytona Beach for a couple of years before relocating to Las Vegas where he performed both as Buddy Holly and as Elwood Blues before stepping from behind the glasses and fedora to perform the songs he loves without the limitation of a "tribute."   Click here  Jim Mann  for more.