LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Neil Sedaka’s career brought him to Las Vegas, where he performed hundreds of times, according to a 2003 interview.
Sedaka, who died Friday at 86, was a teen idol who kept his boyish voice and turned into a songwriter who supplied hits for The Carpenters, Captain and Tennille and others, a Las Vegas Sun interview reveals.
His first Las Vegas performance came at The Fremont in Downtown Las Vegas in 1963, and he had shows at The Riviera (now the site of The Fontainebleau Las Vegas) in the 1970s and eventually at The Orleans Hotel & Casino late in his performing career…