Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton
Carson Wayne Newtonis an American singer and entertainer. One of the best-known entertainers in Las Vegas, Nevada, he is known by the nicknames The Midnight Idol, Mr. Las Vegas and Mr. Entertainment. His well known songs include 1972's "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast", "Years", and his vocal version of "Red Roses for a Blue Lady". His signature song "Danke Schoen"was notably used in the score for Ferris Bueller's Day Off...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth3 April 1942
CityNorfolk, VA
CountryUnited States of America
You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
I've always had great faith in people.
If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.
Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.