Today is the birthday of one of the great impresarios, con artists and flim flam men of all time, Colonel Tom Parker (1909-1997). A former carnival worker and sideshow talker, he gradually worked his way into the music business when he began to promote Gene Austin in 1938. From here be began book, promote and […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:15AM on June 26, 2013