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Originally from Paris, Tennessee, Sammy Goldstein's early career was as a musical comedy actor in summer stock theatre performing in such shows as "Finian's Rainbow" as "Og, the Leprechaun," and "Fiddler On The Roof" as "Motel, the Tailor." At age 20, he moved to Los Angeles where he took a job as a singer/pianist in a piano lounge to support his acting career. Instead, he found a second career, one he has nurtured and with which he has found great success. Over the years, Sammy's nightclub work, as a singer/pianist, has taken him to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington D.C., Memphis, Chicago, New York, Norway and Greece, and on several cruise lines (including Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, American/Hawaii Cruises and Royal Olympic Cruises) to Hawaii, Alaska, the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and transatlantic from England to New York. In New York and Los Angeles, Sammy has performed at several private affairs for Barbara Walters with guests-of-honor including Henry Kissinger, Mrs. Anwar Sadat, Donald Trump, Carol Channing, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, and the former King Constantine of Greece. In addition to performing at numerous private affairs for NBC-TV in Los Angeles and New York, Sammy's private party client list includes Miramax Films, the Friar's Club, David Geffen of Geffen Records, Marvin Hamlisch, Kelly Lange (KNBC Newscaster), Mike Medavoy (former Chairman, TriStar Pictures), Wink Martindale, Gene Barry, U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler and others. For several years, Sammy was a regular entertainer at Chasen's Restaurant in Beverly Hills for private parties catering to celebrities, film studios and corporations, and in New York he has performed at private parties in such landmarks as Sardi's, Tavern on the Green, and Rainbow and Stars. As an actor, he has co-starred on "Murder, She Wrote," a "Columbo" movie-of-the-week and "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill," as well as appearances on "Magnum, P.I.," "Superior Court," "Divorce Court," the soap operas "Generations" and "Loving," and in such films as "Xanadu" and "Ghostbusters." The music Sammy loves performing is a combination of the standards of the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's, music of Broadway, Big Band music, contemporary standards, Dixieland jazz, and the old sing-a-longs. His debut CD recording, "I'm Glad There Is You," was released in January, 1998, and appeared on the first-round ballot for the 1999 Grammy Awards for "Traditional Pop Vocal Performance." His second CD recording, "So Far It's Wonderful," was released in October, 2001.
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