All-Negro Pop Show

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30480, 30 June 1964, Page 10

All-Negro Pop Show

The first ail-Negro pop show to tour New Zealand will give its first Christchurch concert on Thursday. July 16. The group consists of Gene Mo> Daniels, Ben E. King and hie trio and Miss Dee Dee Sharp The compere will be How ard Morrison and backing will be provided by the Dak Aiderton 14-piece showband. Gene McDaniels, who toured New Zealand about two years ago. will fly with his piano player, Prince Schell, from Los Angeles, and other members of the group will fly from New York. All will arrive in Auckland on July 11. The group is making a 10stop tour. Gene McDaniels, whose first hit record “100 Pounds of Clay” was one of the topselling discs of 1961. is now completing his full-length movie film “The Young Swingers,” which will be shown in New Zealand soon. Unlike many pop singers, he can read music; he studied the trumpet at the Omaha Conservatory of Music for a time.

Ben E. King, who has just finished a tour of Britain with Gerry and the Pacemakers, recorded the niillion-selling “Spanish Harlem.”

Miss Dee Dee Sharp, aged 18, still attends high school but she has been in the poprecord business for three years and has made several hits, including “Mashed Potato Time” and “Where Did I Go Wrong?”