The Bobby Byrne Show on August 7th

THE BOBBY BYRNE SHOW on August 7th is a unique blend of music that features Broadway show-stoppers, Irish ballads, Italian arias, hilarious novelty numbers, Elvis Presley rockers and old time sing-a-long songs. Bobby will often segue from a foot-stomping medley of Elvis Presley rockers to a classical aria like “Vesti La Giubba” from “Pagliacci”. Then, before you can dry the tears after that one, he’ll have you laughing at something called “Bridey Murphy and the Kamikaze Pilot”.

Unfortunately, to describe his show by its content does nothing to convey the effect this man has on an audience. In this age of electronic entertainment, Bobby Byrne is a throwback to another era, a time when performers lived or died on their merits in front of a live audience. Those were the days of Jimmy Durante and Al Jolson, Fanny Brice and Sophie Tucker, of Judy Garland and Eddie Cantor. Each of those great performers from the past was proud to be known not as a singer or as a recording artist or a television personality or a comic, but simply as an “entertainer”.