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 Sol
Bernstein
It’s true! After
25 years of semi retirement, playing nursing homes, Sol Bernstein is back
where he
belongs, in smoky nightclubs performing to drunks. The legend that is Sol
Bernstein escaped the Pogroms in Russia, the Nazis in Germany and Mosleys
blackshirts
in London, went on to become the World’s
1st all-round entertainer. He’s a song and dance man, a comedian, a magician,
an actor, an amazing ventriloquist (with his suitcase friend Mr Pinkus) a Jazz
musician (Sol was rated as the BEST TRIANGLE player in the USA in the 50’s
by performers like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington ). He’s performed all over the world at venues including The London Palladium,
New York’s Carnegie Hall, The Paris Olympia, but it at night clubs where
Sol really comes to life. His charisma, his walking stick, his catch phrase "why
don't you put on a tie?!", his chutzpah - put it all together and you
see the magic that is Sol Bernstein. He’s the man who helped the career’s of Elvis Presley. Marcel
Marceau (and never even got a "Thank you") and even the Beatles were
influenced. He’s worked with, and been friends with, some of the worlds
GREATEST performers, Elvis, Judy Garland, The Rat Pack, Lenny Bruce, Jack Benny,
George Burns, Milton Berle, Doris Day, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe, Eddie
Large Most young performers will mention Sol B as a major influence. What performers have said about Sol:
"He’s the greatest" -
Sammy Davis Jr.
"The man is what SHOW
business is all about" - Liberace
"Sol broke all the
barriers in comedy" - Lenny
Bruce
"He taught me to dance" -
Bruce Forsyth
"The world’s
greatest entertainer" - Al
Jolson
" Who ?" - Eddie
Izzard
"What a catch phrase!!" -
Harry Hill
Need we say more ? Probably,
but that’ll take time, and cost money.
He’s back, don’t be a shmuck, book Sol - the man that helped put
the bar in cabaret.
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