A a result, the owner of KOOL-TV, Tom Chauncey, who also televised the talent show, gave the brothers their own television show, Rascals in Rhythm and served as a mentor to them.

Soon after arriving in Phoenix, the brothers performed in a local television talent show Lew King Rangers and won. Due to Newton's severe asthma, his family moved to Phoenix in 1952, at his doctor's suggestion. He began singing in local clubs, theaters, and fairs with his older brother, Jerry. While he was a child, his family moved to near Newark, Ohio. On the weekends, he performed in a traveling road show of the Grand Ole Opry. He performed in a local music radio show, playing steel guitar and singing country music, before school. Navy during World War II, Newton spent his early years in Fredericksburg, Virginia, learning the piano, guitar, and steel guitar at age six. He believes he has some Native American ancestry (specifically, that his mother had some distant Cherokee and his father Powhatan heritage), but is not claimed or recognized by any tribe. He is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and German ancestry. Newton was born Carson Wayne Newton in either Roanoke or Norfolk, Virginia to Patrick Newton (1915-1990), an auto mechanic, and his wife, Evelyn Marie Smith (1921–1985). 'Danke Schoen' is Newton's signature song and was notably used in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. His well known songs include ' Danke Schoen' (1963), ' Summer Wind' (1965), ' Red Roses for a Blue Lady' (1965), ' Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast' (1972) and ' Years' (1980). Throughout his career, Newton has appeared in a number of movies and television shows. Newton is the highest-grossing entertainer in Las Vegas history. The Washington Post describes Newton as 'America's number one night club act' and at his peak being more prominent in Las Vegas than both Sinatra and Presley. In 1963, he achieved headliner status at the Flamingo, a casino hotel in Las Vegas, and soon became one of the city's most popular performers. Entertainment'.Īs a teenager, Newton first performed in Las Vegas in the late 1950s and was mentored by some of the nation's biggest artists including Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin and Elvis Presley. He is known by the nicknames 'The Midnight Idol', 'Mr.

One of the most popular singers in the United States from the mid-to-late 20th century, Newton remains one of the best-known entertainers in Las Vegas and has performed there since 1963. Carson Wayne Newton (born April 3, 1942) is an American singer and actor.

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