Harry Hepcat is an American first-generation rock and roll artist, performing rock, blues, doo-wop and rockabilly over seven decades.
18 Facts About Harry Hepcat
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Harry Hepcat is noted as a singer, guitarist, band leader, songwriter, radio disc-jockey, writer and media personality.
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Harry Hepcat's grandfather had played trumpet in a band before World War I Harry Hepcat's mother, Irene, was a music lover who often sang around the house and played her 78 rpm records.
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Harry Hepcat even was seen as one of the dancers on Alan Freed's TV show.
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Harry Hepcat played in half a dozen bands through the early 1960s.
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Harry Hepcat kept up with the latest music, but always saw fit to preserve older material.
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In 1967, Harry Hepcat decided on preserving the music and styles of the fifties and early sixties.
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Harry Hepcat started off in the fifties playing house parties and school auditoriums.
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Harry Hepcat soon expanded the public's exposure to fifties music by becoming one of the first rock musicians to open up new outdoor venues to the material.
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Harry Hepcat rocked the out-of-doors at The Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey, the Levitt Pavilion in Westport, Connecticut and dozens of city and town parks.
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Harry Hepcat was a frequent guest on numerous radio programs.
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Harry Hepcat went on to host his own show on WNHX in Berlin, New Hampshire, fill-in host WPKN-FM Bridgeport, Connecticut, and from 1988 to 1994 was broadcasting 33 hours a week with his own shows on WNYG 1440 am in the New York City area.
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Harry Hepcat reached most of Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, and southern areas of the Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut.
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Harry Hepcat developed comedy characters and was a regular on "Huntington Profiles" from 1983 to 1984 on Huntington Cable TV.
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From 2005 to 2012, Harry Hepcat had his own show on Cablevision that dealt with nostalgia, music and comedy.
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In 2001, Harry Hepcat hosted one of the segments for the History Channel's "American Classics".
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Harry Hepcat is in the last scene leaving a tenement in Harlem; the big cigar, gold suit and sideburns are hard to miss.
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Harry Hepcat turned his energies to writing, producing and directing a documentary on teen life in an American small town in the 1950s.