Louis Armstrong and his band in a little nightclub setting at the Jones Beach Marine Theater after the performance of the play Mardi Gras, when I was about 12 years old. Close enough for the sweat to fly off and hit me. My first live concert experience, Guy Lombardo's band also played. I have a playbill that I got autographed by Jerome Kern and I think the drummer of Lombardo's band. Had been on the dock by Lombardo's 44' mahogany boat a couple hours earlier, watching the mechanic tinker on the twin Chrysler 440s, and Mr Lombardo coming to talk to him while I was standing there. Good times.
Many great shows in my life since then, this still tops my list.
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