Robert Schwartzman, who was a critical success with his recent documentary on the British invasion group The Zombies, began to work on another musical doc, this on the legend of Las Vegas Wayne Newton.
The director revealed that the singer of “Danke Schoen” would be his next subject Thursday evening during a question-answer session which followed a projection of Hung up on a dream: the zombie documentary (2023) at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.
Newton, 83, was just a teenager when he started to perform in Las Vegas with his older brother, Jerry, and the interpreter live colored recorded tens of thousands of performances in the city – and he is still going strong.
Born in Virginia and raised in Arizona, Newton generously received “Danke Schoen” to record in the early 1960s by the singer of “Mack The Knife” Bobby Darin, and the song culminated 13th in the Billboard Hot 100.
He also had another great success with “Daddy don you walk so quickly”, which reached n ° 4 in 1972, and he worked as an actor, with activities Blind,, License to kill (1989) and The adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990).
Schwartzman said Newton participated in the documentary.
Dreamed of a dream was created in SXSW in 2023, played the festival circuit and had a brief theatrical race. It has become available to broadcast on Apple TV +, Amazon and Altavod.
The zombies – the keyboardist Rod Silver, the singer Colin Blunstone, the guitarist Paul Atkinson, the bass player Chris White and the drummer Hugh Grundy – are known for successes such as “she is not there” and “time of the season”. They were enthroned in rock and roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
Friday, it was announced that the Zombies will publish a remastered mono version of the 1967s Odessey and Oraclewhich appears regularly on lists of the biggest rock albums of all time, September 26 via Beechwood Park Records.
Schwartzman, son of twice the actress nominated at the Oscars Talia Shire as a member of the emblematic family Francis Ford Coppola, recently directed The good half (2023), with Nick Jonas, Brittany Snow, David Arquette, Matt Walsh and Elisabeth Shue. It was his fourth narrative characteristic.
Schwartzman also has a musical career as the main singer of the Rock / Pop Rooney group.
