{"id":19096,"date":"2015-06-03T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=19096"},"modified":"2015-06-02T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:55:12","slug":"suntan-stu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/suntan-stu\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNTAN STU"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I knew<\/strong><\/span> a Cleveland comedian who moved to Florida and did impressions of Joan Rivers and Carol Channing, and even affected a New York accent.\u00a0 She did OK on the condo circuit.\u00a0 She and Yiddishe Cup shared the same booker, Suntan Stu, in Florida. The first time Stu phoned me, he said, \u201cVos machst du<\/em>, man?\u201d (How\u2019s it going, man?)<\/p>\n

\u201cRemind me, Stu, how did you hear about my band?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a band is as good as Yiddishe Cup, the word gets around!\u201d<\/p>\n

I lost<\/strong><\/span> $900 because of Stu.\u00a0 He \u201cbooked\u201d us at a Florida showcase (a talent show for bands) that never happened. I paid airplane cancellation fees. Stu\u2019s website said he had worked with America\u2019s biggest stars: Dolly Parton, Johnny Mathis and the Bee Gees.<\/p>\n

Why did I fall for Stu’s line?\u00a0 (Probably because I thought Stu would get Yiddishe Cup a lot of gigs.) We got gornisht<\/em>. “Vos machst du,<\/em> man?”\u00a0 <\/em>Next time somebody says that to you, run.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\"suntan<\/a>
\n—<\/p>\n

Check out the Schmotown Revue tonight\u00a0 (7-9 p.m Wed., June 3) <\/span>at Gigi’s<\/a> on Fairmount, Cleveland Heights. Outdoors if the weather is good; indoors if raining. Soul music and klezmer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Alan<\/a>

Alan Douglass (L), Bert Stratton and Tamar Gray<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew a Cleveland comedian who moved to Florida and did impressions of Joan Rivers and Carol Channing, and even affected a New York accent.\u00a0 She did OK on the condo circuit.\u00a0 She and Yiddishe Cup shared the same booker, Suntan Stu, in Florida. The first time Stu phoned me, he said, \u201cVos machst du, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19096"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23268,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions\/23268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}