The Ninth Annual Upper Midwest Auto Show brought in first class entertainment:

• The McGuire Sisters, January 11 – 14, 1963
• Rusty Draper, January 15 – 17, 1963
• Ricky Nelson, January 18 – 20, 1963

 

Special shows were “reinforced” by:

• Leo De Lyon, MC and comedian
• Jose Cole, equilibrist
• Frank Cammarata, organist
• Sasha Tormas, violinist
• Gordie Bowen’s 15-piece orchestra

 

 

Jim Matteson remembered:

Rick left after his set in a very showy (probably not very necessary) phalanx of cops – leaving Burton , the Bass player, and the drummer – all recognizable from the ends of Ozzie and Harriet T V episodes – to be their own roadies – so i went up on the stage and talked with them while they were packing up, bold as brass – real nice fellows.