The four aces biography for kids
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(By Al Alberts as told to Bill Kagler, Daily Times Staff Writer, September 1960)
Contributed by composer George Hoven's daughter
The Four Aces started in a Prospect Park milk bar for $28 a night and wound up in a plus Las Vegas Hotel for $10,000 a week.
In between, though, there was a good deal of hard work and push.
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Take our first big record ["It's No Sin"] for instance. If it had not been for two events directed by fate, we might never have made it. But we did, and are forever grateful.
The first event occurred in 1951. We were playing at The Old Mill in Concordville and had changed from a strictly instrumental group to one which sang as well as played.
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We were attracting the college crowd from West Chester and Philadelphia, so we decided to ask for a raise.
We asked for $5 more per man but were turned down. So we left and went to the Ukrainian-American National Home, a private club in Chester. This move changed our entire lives.
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