King Harvest On The Jimmy Star Show Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

NEW YORK - Jan. 2, 2016 - PRLog -- King Harvest will be a featured guest on The Jimmy Star Show live radio/tv show hosted by King of Cool Jimmy Star along with Cool Man About Town Ron Russell a to discuss their music, their career and the entertainment industries at large. The Jimmy Star Show is tv/radio’s coolest hit show, featuring the coolest in music, entertainment, fashion and pop culture, all from a fun industry insider perspective in a completely live, unedited fast-paced two-hour conversational format.

KING HARVEST RECORDED THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN CLASSIC HIT - "DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT" - AND LATER RECORDED AND TOURED WITH THE BEACH BOYS.

It all started in Ithaca, NY in the mid-60s, when the four core King Harvest members showed up at Cornell University for an education and found a college where there were 53 fraternities – that’s 53 opportunities to play fraternity parties, and for musicians, too much to let pass by. And so, the four eventual members of King Harvest - Eddie Tuleja ( guitar and vocals ), Ron Altbach ( keys), Doc Robinson ( keys, bass and lead vocals) and Rod Novak ( bass, vocals and sax ) put their various pre-med and pre-law and anthropology and art history and other potential careers in second place to their first love – playing rock and roll.

After several years of calculus mixed with beer and contraband, first Ronny, then Rod, then Eddie and finally Doc made their way to Paris. First it was Ronny’s studying classical music seriously with Mlle. Nadia Boulanger, then Rod recording in Paris as Clint Farwood for Jacques Morali (before his success with The Village People) and playing sax with chanteuse Nancy Holloway, then Eddie seduced by Ronny’s promise of rock and roll stardom and fine French women, and finally Doc, who had just left Boffalongo, at a time when King Harvest was really starting to roll.

Jackie Lombard, who became one of the top concert promoters in France, was the band’s publicist and booked King Harvest into the Cannes Whiskey-a-Go-Go for the duration of the festival. Ringo Starr, Maurice Gibb, and other luminaries stopped by, a few offers were made, and King Harvest was on its way. They were booked to open for BB King at the Olympia Theatre in Paris. And, Ashley Kozak, manager of Donovan, invited the band to come to London to perform at the Speakeasy.

As luck would have it, Wells Kelly had come to France, armed with his brother Sherman’s song Dancing in the Moonlight. (recorded as a single by Boffalongo for United Artists with Sherman's vocals). King Harvest teamed up with its producers Pierre Jaubert and Jack Robinson to arrange and record a new version of Dancing in the Moonlight with Doc singing lead.

To everyone's amazement, Dancing in the Moonlight flopped in Europe. But in the summer of 1972, Jack Robinson decided that he wouldn't take no for an answer, and traveled to the US with Pierre Jaubert to first lease the master of Dancing in the Moonlight to a tiny NYC record company, and then to talk with DJs on the West Coast. Jack broke the record personally. Dancing in the Moonlight moved up the US charts, eventually staying high on the Billboard charts for 20 weeks.

The band, back in the US, settled in Ronny’s upstate NY hometown, Olcott NY, where they rehearsed and readied a second album as well as a tour of the East Coast. Welcomed by the entire township, King Harvest practiced in the basement of the local Methodist Church, and played gigs at local bars. The band now consisted of its original four members, plus Sherman Kelly (www.shermankelly.com) as an additional vocalist and keyboard player. Australians Tony Cahill and David Montgomery came over from Paris to play bass and drums.

The band’s second single, A Little Bit Like Magic, was released and a tour started, with Jay Leno of Tonight Show fame as opening act. Somewhere along the way, their record company ran out of money, pulled all promotion spending, and the momentum fizzled. King Harvest drifted apart in the summer of 1973. Their second album was never released.(The Lost Tapes-2007).

The group, back to Rod, Doc, Eddie and Ronny signed with A&M in 1974, and its album, King Harvest, (with Beach Boy drummer Bobby Figueroa), produced by legendary songwriter Jeff Barry, was released in the fall of 1975 featuring guest appearances by Beach Boys Carl Wilson and Mike Love, Peter Cetera of Chicago,and a jazz solo appearance by the great Charles Lloyd.

And, though they never duplicated their monster hit Dancing in the Moonlight, their bond of friendship lasts tothis day, fulfilling the lyrical prediction of one of their most heartfelt tunes..... "Old Friends, When the Story Ends, We'll Still Be Good As Gold".

The Jimmy Star Show is pleased to showcase the expertise and talent of King Harvest  and all anticipate a fun and informative time talking with them about their career and the entertainment industries at large.

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