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It has been years since New York has seen anything quite like the old Copacabana. The Copa, Manhattan's best-known night club, was also the most popular nightspot in America. From the moment it burst onto the scene in 1940, an aura of glamour and sophistication hovered over the Copa. It was a luminous glow that, over the course of five decades, served this illustrious establishment well, beckoning the people who made it famous-Hollywood stars, sports heroes, foreign dignitaries, and the town's leading families, including the Kennedys, the Roosevelts, and the Du Ponts. The Copa was a showcase for past, present, and future stars, including Joe E. Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Jimmy Durante, Julie Wilson, Tony Orlando, and Wayne Newton. Through vintage photographs and stories from performers, Copa Girls, and other people connected with the Copa's history, The Copacabana chronicles how this landmark institution became an American cultural icon.


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Kristin Baggelaar is the author of Folk Music: More Than a Song and The Folk Music Encyclopaedia. A portion of all sales of The Copacabana will be donated by the author to the Society of Singers, a charitable organization that helps professional singers in need and works within the entertainment community by directly supporting the future of aspiring singers with vocal arts scholarships.

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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (December 18, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0738549193
  • ISBN-13: 978-0738549194
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #952,749 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars My Personal Journey Back in Time, January 2, 2007
Rather than watching those traditional parades on television during the morning of New Year's day, I instead spent a very pleasant couple of hours returning to the wondrous days of my youth. It happens that I entered this world only a scant six months before the Copacabana made its own debut in October 1940. However, even by my late teens I had neither the opportunity nor the inclination to frequent a nightclub some two hundred miles distant from my home in rural upstate New York. What we did have here, starting in the early 50's, was television, and that first opened to a cloistered twelve-year-old that wondrous, glorious world of show business. The faces of Jerry Lester, Peter Lind Hayes, Sid Caesar, Vivian Blaine, Martin and Lewis, Jimmy Durante, the young Eddie Fisher and so many others - fixtures on television in its infancy - were all there in this profusely illustrated volume. All those stars I was watching on television as a kid, when they were not before the cameras, were appearing at one time or another at the Copa. For someone like me, who still wistfully dwells in that decade of the 50's, these were all my old friends!

At first glance one would receive the impression that this is primarily a picture book, a miniature coffee table book, as it were. However, the often lengthy and always insightful captions deliver a thorough history of this New York City institution, starting with its conception and tracing the path to its ultimate demise, as the times and popular tastes changed. While the history of the Copa's first decade contains many names unfamiliar to most of us, those in its artistic and financial management, still many others are well known. Some performers appearing at the venue during the 1940's had already achieved fame in the movies, even vaudeville, while others like June Allyson and Joanne Dru, plucked from the Copa chorus line, would later make their mark in Hollywood.

I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of the entertainment business in this country during a golden age. The original Copacabana for some four decades provided a venue for the best and most revered talent of the day to display their wares, and Ms. Baggelaar most ably escorts us along the journey through those years.

Albert J. Kopec
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5.0 out of 5 stars Three Steps Up and One Flight Down, March 8, 2007
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This book's lots of fun! Just a hoot. This is a chronological picture and caption story about the Copacabana that can't be found anywhere else. Kristin Baggelaar interviewed former Copa showgirls to get their insightful stories and photos. Being a Copa Girl back then was like being an American Idol today. A marvelously resourceful undertaking.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Copacabana : A nostalgic trip to "The Copa", January 26, 2007


As a former musician who worked at the Copacabana during the 1960.s Kristin Baggelaar,s wonderful book accurately describes the history of "The Copa" through wonderfully reproduced photos. She takes you on a chronological trip from the earliest days of the Copacabana to it;s sad demise in the 70.s. I highly recommend this book to anyone who remembers or is interested in those glorious days of show business.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Special Times
The Copacabana flooded me with memories of one of my first dates with my then future husband. It was a big deal because we didn't go into New York very much, so it was a special... Read more
Published on September 13, 2007 by Barbara Schmidt

5.0 out of 5 stars the feeling of that era
Other books have been written about the famous Copacabana nightclub, but none have captured the feeling of that era the way Kristin Baggelaar has - every page is a joy... Read more
Published on August 17, 2007 by Edna Ryan

5.0 out of 5 stars THE COPACABANA, a 126-page page-turner
The Copacabana personified the nightclub era of 1944 to 1953 in the country. Kristin Baggelaar's nostalgic book captures those days of mega stars and their acts in 126 pages of... Read more
Published on August 16, 2007 by Wendy Bartlett

5.0 out of 5 stars copacabana
book is great, it shows and tells of all the happenings at the wonderful
nightclub on 60th st. in manhattan for so many years. It brought back
wonderful memories. Read more
Published on July 1, 2007 by Rina J. Giancaspro

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, lively read
The Copacabana captures the essence of entertainment, particularly the1950's, during which time my parents and relatives in the Midwest savored the music and comedy of these young... Read more
Published on April 3, 2007 by Jean Baldikoski

5.0 out of 5 stars A Terrific Book
I enjoyed this book very much. It is well done and wonderfully illustrated with beautiful photographs.
Published on March 11, 2007 by James Stettler

5.0 out of 5 stars ...a way of lfe, now gone forever
I became a Copa fan at an early age; dreamed of growing up and going to the glamorous Copacabana to see for myself the "smart people doing the rhumba. Read more
Published on January 31, 2007 by Alice Syman

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