Wade Preston Boeger
Wade Preston Wade Boeger
Wade Preston Boeger Movin' Out Billy Joel Piano Man
Wade Preston Boeger
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LAST UPDATED 11/16/08
What's New
(and not so new...)
NOMINATED FOR TEN TONY AWARDS!
WINNER OF TWO TONY AWARDS!
Billy Joel and Stuart Malina
for Best Orchestration
Twyla Tharpe
for Best Choreography
NEW ON YOUTUBE.COM
Wade as piano man on Broadway with the Movin' Out Band
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=790146
Bumble Boogie at a solo concert at The Great Neck Performing Arts Center
on Long Island, NY.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=D38VxAhrWV8
There are lot's of new vids of Wade
on youtube.
Just type Wade Preston into the youtube search engine and they should all come
up!
For the most recent pics and comments from Wade, check out www.myspace.com/wadepreston (this is the one I use the most)
and www.myspace.com/wadeprestonband (free downloads!)
I recently
added some MP3's to my
sounds
page. Two pieces are holiday music. The other is of my old
big band jazz ensemble doing Stolen Moments. This is the only recording of this wonderful
ensemble to survive. It's almost eleven minutes long.
And it's all free. Check it out.
There are even more free downloads at www.myspace.com/wadeprestonband
Email:
wade@wadepreston.com
or
Wadeprestn@aol.com
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Everyone receives a blind carbon copy so you can't be spammed.
At any time if you wish to not be
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request.
Thanks!
Wade
And if you really want a laugh,
check THIS out:
I did a
number of TV shows with Chubby Checker when I played keys for him as a young man
in the early '80's.
Among them, the short lived Friday's. Victoria Principle was the
guest host.
The three songs we did on that show have resurfaced on YouTube.com.
Remember. It was 1982, and I was 19. Victoria and I got along rather well.
Song # 1 - Running:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ZZPpjBmhsQ
It was the '80's. The now infamous Kramer turned
racist Michael Richards got his start on this program with skits like the one
that starts off this song. What a great band we had. Drummer Sammy Merendino
went on to do all kinds of great things, including the drum track to We
Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel. Roy Robertson played sax for years
and went on to start one of the most successful jingle agencies in Maryland. He
now owns six, count 'em, six, radio stations in the DC area.
Song # 2 - Harder Than Diamonds:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=poEgGqHadA8
It opens with a close-up of my hands. That was my
grandfather's ring, given to me by my dad, and I gave it to my brother.
Pooka shells were in, too, as you can see. It was
the '80's... My good friend Robbie Walsh plays electric guitar wonderfully as he
still does today in the Scranton PA area. The only thing wrong with this is Evan Pace's acoustic guitar
playing. He produced the record, but never played with us except for this one TV
performance. It was distracting with him jumping around like that, but mostly,
his guitar is out of tune.
Song # 3 - Burn Up The Night:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vodqf8KtRss
At the end of this segment after the
song, I can be seen doing the twist with Victoria Principle while the credits
were running. Watch it to the very end. Hilarious. When my friend Phil Melchers
and I watched this on TV later that night at my hotel, we laughed so hard we
both ended up on the floor in tears. True story. We probably laughed for twenty
minutes.
Ahh, it was the early '80's...
Got another minute?
Check out this YouTube
of our last show with Movin' Out on Broadway.
Billy doing Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) on the last night. Poor video quality
and the sound doesn't sync up with the picture, but you can hear the excitement
in the audience. I'm no-where to be found on the video. Still, worth a look and
listen, especially the altered lyrics.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zEdG31ecRSI&search=billy%20joel