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NANCY and RAY have had plenty of practice making music.
NANCY came on the scene at the end of the Big Band Era, traveling with Les and Larry Elgart, Skitch Henderson and the Newport Youth Band -- a bunch of talented teenagers who were sponsored by the Newport Jazz Festival. She also sang for two years with the Peter Duchin Band at the St. Regis and spent the sixties and the first half of the seventies appearing in every elegant hotel in Manhattan – such as the Pierre, the Waldorf and the Plaza. She was featured with Lester Lanin, Meyer Davis and the Ray Block Orchestra. Then one fateful day she crossed the Hudson and did a date with the RAY DI PIETRO Band.
RAY was already a star in the New Jersey single engagement field, providing the best in music and entertainment for, among others, Lipton Tea, the N.J. Counsel of Girl Scouts and United Way. With Ray’s lively Dixieland trumpet and elegant stage presence he was always in demand to perform at fundraisers for such prestigious clients as major local medical centers like Holy Name Hospital and for well-known politicians such as former Senator Bill Bradley.
NANCY and RAY found they could make beautiful music together -- on and off the bandstand. So in 1980 they married and continued to play dates in the N.Y./NJ. Area until 2000 when they made the decision to all but retire, keeping only a few long-time accounts like The New Jersey Lottery.
But retirement did not suit Nancy. So, as women will, she changed her mind. She decided to return with a new name and a new concept. After years of people telling her how much they loved the older songs she decided to give them what they wanted: Music that lasts AS TIME GOES BY. And yes, she has even managed to coax Ray back into the business to work with her.
AS TIME GOES BY MUSIC, Inc. is a little over nine years old and Nancy and Ray are going out as a duo, entertaining at more than 45 local Senior Centers, Independent Living complexes such as Waterford Towers & Heritage Point, as well as Assisted Living and Continuing Care Communities.
They also play small private parties where their years of experience enable them to give the crowd whatever style of music is needed -- easy listening jazz as background for cocktails and chatter -- or swinging standards and soft rock for dancing.
However, what they are finding most satisfying is their one-hour cabaret show.
The shows are a mix of music and theater and make the most of their combined creative abilities.
They’ve told me that somehow it seems right to be sharing the music they love best with the people who remember that era and appreciate its songs the most.
AS TIME GOES BY MUSIC Inc. 201-768-0061
NANCY came on the scene at the end of the Big Band Era, traveling with Les and Larry Elgart, Skitch Henderson and the Newport Youth Band -- a bunch of talented teenagers who were sponsored by the Newport Jazz Festival. She also sang for two years with the Peter Duchin Band at the St. Regis and spent the sixties and the first half of the seventies appearing in every elegant hotel in Manhattan – such as the Pierre, the Waldorf and the Plaza. She was featured with Lester Lanin, Meyer Davis and the Ray Block Orchestra. Then one fateful day she crossed the Hudson and did a date with the RAY DI PIETRO Band.
RAY was already a star in the New Jersey single engagement field, providing the best in music and entertainment for, among others, Lipton Tea, the N.J. Counsel of Girl Scouts and United Way. With Ray’s lively Dixieland trumpet and elegant stage presence he was always in demand to perform at fundraisers for such prestigious clients as major local medical centers like Holy Name Hospital and for well-known politicians such as former Senator Bill Bradley.
NANCY and RAY found they could make beautiful music together -- on and off the bandstand. So in 1980 they married and continued to play dates in the N.Y./NJ. Area until 2000 when they made the decision to all but retire, keeping only a few long-time accounts like The New Jersey Lottery.
But retirement did not suit Nancy. So, as women will, she changed her mind. She decided to return with a new name and a new concept. After years of people telling her how much they loved the older songs she decided to give them what they wanted: Music that lasts AS TIME GOES BY. And yes, she has even managed to coax Ray back into the business to work with her.
AS TIME GOES BY MUSIC, Inc. is a little over nine years old and Nancy and Ray are going out as a duo, entertaining at more than 45 local Senior Centers, Independent Living complexes such as Waterford Towers & Heritage Point, as well as Assisted Living and Continuing Care Communities.
They also play small private parties where their years of experience enable them to give the crowd whatever style of music is needed -- easy listening jazz as background for cocktails and chatter -- or swinging standards and soft rock for dancing.
However, what they are finding most satisfying is their one-hour cabaret show.
The shows are a mix of music and theater and make the most of their combined creative abilities.
They’ve told me that somehow it seems right to be sharing the music they love best with the people who remember that era and appreciate its songs the most.
AS TIME GOES BY MUSIC Inc. 201-768-0061
