FULL -Senior Happening: Fred Miller Presents: “It Wasn’t All Noise! Singable Pop & Rock Songs of the 1950s - 1960s”

The Livingston Public Library invites the public to our In-Person Senior Happening on Friday, March 17th at 1pm featuring “It Wasn’t All Noise! The Singable Pop & Rock Songs of the 1950s and 1960s” performed by Fred Miller. 

This lecture-in-song draws out the best of what remained after The Golden Age: Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Sam Cooke, Johnny Mathis, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Buddy Holly, Little Anthony, Ray Charles, Carole King, Frankie Valli, Neil Sedaka, The Ronettes, Motown (Martha & The Vandellas, The Temptations, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson), Leslie Gore, The Beatles and the British Invasion, Neil Diamond, James Taylor…all of these (and more) are represented in this wonderfully nostalgic turn back to a more innocent American era. 

Fred Miller is the founder of the Copper Penny Players, a singing class for amateurs that has been operating for the past quarter century. He has experience in many different musical fields, including opera, comedy and piano music. There are now more than seventy Lecture-in-Song programs that he performs around New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The Senior Happening is a monthly series that allows attendees (“Seniors” or otherwise) to socialize during the first part of the program (12 until 12:45 pm) by bringing a bag lunch, while enjoying desserts and coffee served by the Friends of the Library volunteers. The program and entertainment then begins at 1 pm.

Registration is required and may be done in person at the library; by telephone at (973) 992-4600; or online at www.livingstonlibrary.org. Registration begins on February 27th for Livingston residents and other Essex County residents may register starting on March 13th.

Unable to make the show? A pre-recorded video of the performance will be available on the library website, www.livingstonlibrary.org, for you to enjoy at your leisure.

Senior Happening is made possible in part by funds from the Essex County Division of Cultural Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and through the support from the Friends of the Livingston Library.