Duncan Fife M. a.

Giving the Gift of Giggles: Incredibly True Confessions of a Singing Telegram Entertainer

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Produktbeschreibung

You will love this collection of stories about how The Fifes started a business doing what they love to do: entertain. Chapter I, "When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Costumes!" gets into how their new singing telegram business began to grow to include children's shows, corporate meeting performers and more. Robin and Duncan played character and celebrity look-alikes who were hired to burst into living rooms, restaurants, offices and even onto ball fields and into swimming pools. Various animals and assorted foods were also requested to sing for birthdays, anniversaries, marriage proposals, debt collections and the like. Their adventures of making a living by giving and by having fun continue. Dressing up as a Viking or as a country western star or as Santa Claus for their "little shows" is still their labor of love; labor you'll love reading about.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Armour Books
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 177g
• ISBN-13: 9780692668375
• ISBN-10: 0692668373
• Artikelnr.: 57951530

Autorenporträt

Duncan Fife writes, speaks and entertains. He was "Hi-Fi Fife" on radio in the Fifties and a grateful graduate of Santa Clara University (English Lit) and UCLA (Theatre Arts). In the Sixties he went on to become one of those advertising "Mad Men" in New York. He was recruited by J. Walter Thompson, the first of several ad agencies he wrote copy for. And he was blessed at the time with five virtually perfect children. In the mid-Eighties his actually perfect wife Robin Sands Fife started the northern California entertainment company, ALL STAR SHOWGRAMS. She talked Duncan into joining her, performing singing telegrams and celebrity "look-alikes." Twenty-eight years later she asked him, "Have you finished that book you started about our show biz adventures?" The "Giggles" book is the answer with stories about the days when he transformed himself into the likes of Bruce SHEEP-steen, or a (chocolate chip) Cookie Cut-Up. These were two of the more than forty characters he's played, much to the delight of his two very perfect grandchildren who've learned to read and write their own books. "Wi-Fi Fife," as some now call him, is not resting on his laurels. He's working on a third book. What was his first? Read page two of this, his second book. But be advised: The stories in this delightful collection are fun to read. And to remember.