They played to sold-out crowds every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The scene was changing. Nothing is left of this Palladium, a former second floor ballroom on the corner of 53rd and Broadway, near the Ed Sullivan Theatre. At that time, this was the first club to try this “downtown.”. The New Times Broward-Palm Beach may earn a portion of sales from products & services purchased through links on our site from our affiliate partners. INFORMATION 35(w) x 25(h) cm 14.02(w) x 10.00(h) inches: Show scale of piece.

The Palladium was the mecca for Latin dancers. Many musicians began retiring, others began leaving New York to try to recreate the Mambo hype in other cities, such as Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, and back in Puerto Rico. But crime, drugs, and prostitution were on the rise; several important musicians started to become incarcerated while others lost their lives to overdoses as well as drug-violence. Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more.

And finally, this glorious picture from the final days of the Palladium —, The Palladium was the best Dance Place to go & dance. Call 220-2227.

Latin music and dance, and Jazz became so big that other venues became regular hotspots all over New York, such as the Roseland Ballroom and the Birdland (located next-door to the Palladium), El Corso’s Nightclub, Havana San Juan Club and Havana Madrid Club, and Hunts Point Palace, among others.

"?Vamos!By Suehaydee Riverasrivera@th-record.com Latin nights at the WestGate Lounge, 26 Route 59 and Thruway exit 11. Latin Night is every Friday, and ladies get in free before 11 p.m. Pagani reportedly said to Hyman words to the effect: “What do you care more about black or green?”. This CD showcases another great era of the Palladium and that was the era of the pachanga. In 1945, big-time promoter Federico Pagani started promoting live “Latin music” at the Palladium – initially with the Machito Orchestra and the Tito Puente Orchestra, and soon after included the Tito Rodriguez Orchestra.

They seem to be getting along in the picture below: And, yes, like any New York sensation, the celebrities would soon come to fill the floors too; frequenters included Marlon Brando, Lena Horne, Henry Fonda and Bob Hope (!). His RCA recordings brought the sounds to national prominence, particularly through his hit ‘Mambo No. No cover.

New York proto-punk musicians The Patti Smith Group, John Cale, and Television, ... Chuck Berry played a New Year's Eve concert on 31 December 1988 recorded by WNEW-FM and available as "Chuck Berry Live At Palladium Theater, New York, WNEW-FM Broadcast, 31st December 1988". Like CBGBs for punk rock and the Birdland for bebop, the Palladium was THE place for Latin music in New York City in the 1950s. Sandeep Singh It could fit one thousand dancing couples. But those moves are with us only as retro vestiges. Those perfecting it at the ballroom fused the skills of ballet dancers and acrobats into acts of statuesque sweep and grace. $15.

Everything happening, especially in America, was effecting how musicians and dancers expressed themselves; whatever struggles were happening in their lives – they danced that, they played that. This one that should be on eveyone's CD player. P.S. But at the Palladium, it was how well one could dance instead of the color of one’s skin, which made the difference. 6:30-8:30 p.m. every Tues., Cunneen-Hackett Art Center, 12 Vassar St., second floor, Poughkeepsie. Comedy Rhumba on Oct. 12 at Marist College, Route 9 North, Poughkeepsie. Times Herald-Record. It was at the Palladium Ballroom, located on 53rd and Broadway in Manhattan in the heart of New York City – only eleven short blocks north of Times Square – about a ten-minute walk, that the way Afro-Cuban music was played and danced to, outside of Cuba, completely changed.

The popularity of the mambo and the cha-cha would spread other clubs, particularly to the influential La Bamba nightclub just around the corner, and to the Tropicana in the Bronx. 5" was taking everyone by storm. Then we go into a short film made about the place in 1955. Before the end of 1959, Jimmy Hoffa was the president of the Teamsters Union, both Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the United States, the new  Cuban government of Fidel Castro was recognized by the United States, musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper all perished in a plane crash, and major Mafioso figures including Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano, and Joe Bonanno were arrested at the home of Joe Barbara, Sr. during the collapsed Apalachin Conference (following this incident, federal authorities were forced to admit the existence of organized crime). The early to mid 1950’s saw many changes. Jazz cats loved the place and sometimes sat in with the featured bands. $5.

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By 1951, the Palladium Ballroom had long become the mecca of Latin music and dancing. DJ El Ritmo de la Noche, Oct. 15. The Palladium became the place to be seen at. Latin dance night, 10 p.m.-4 a.m.

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