#LAUREN ASHLEY NEWTON TV#

Many prominent entertainment icons such as Lucille Ball, Bobby Darin, Danny Thomas, George Burns, and Jack Benny lent Newton their support.

#LAUREN ASHLEY NEWTON TV#

In the early to mid-1960s, he also acted and sang as 'Andy' the baby-faced Ponderosa ranch hand on the classic western TV series, Bonanza.Д«y 1963, Newton had been signed to Capitol Records, and his first album was released on the label. Wayne would perform on Gleason's show 12 times over the following two years. On September 29, 1962, they first performed on The Jackie Gleason Show. Originally signed for two weeks, the brothers eventually performed for five years, doing six shows a day. In the spring of 1958, near the end of his junior year of high school, a Las Vegas booking agent saw Newton on a local TV show, Lew King Rangers Show, on which the two Newton brothers were performing and took them back for an audition. Eisenhower and auditioned unsuccessfully for Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour. The brothers, as the Rascals in Rhythm, appeared with the Grand Ole Opry roadshows and on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee and performed in front of then-president Dwight D.

Because of Newton's severe asthma, his family moved to Phoenix in 1952, where he left North High School just before finishing his junior year.

He began singing in local clubs, theaters, and fairs with his older brother, Jerry. While he was a child, his family moved to near Newark, Ohio. Navy during World War II, Newton spent his early years in Roanoke, learning the piano, guitar, and steel guitar at age six. He claims he has Native American ancestry (specifically, that his mother had Cherokee and his father Powhatan heritage) but there are no records that document this claim. He is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and German ancestry. Newton was born Carson Wayne Newton in Norfolk, Virginia, to Patrick Newton, an auto mechanic, and his wife, Evelyn Marie 'Smith' (nГ©e Plasters).

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