Jackie Gleason Concert & Tour History

Jackie Gleason Concert History

Throughout the 1950s and early-1960s, Jackie Gleason enjoyed a secondary music career, lending his name to a series of best-selling mood music albums with jazz overtones for Capitol. Gleason felt there was a ready market for romantic instrumentals. He recalled seeing Clark Gable play love scenes in movies, and the romance was, in his words, "magnified a thousand percent" by background music. Gleason reasoned, "If Gable needs music, a guy in Brooklyn must be desperate!"...

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Date	Concert	Venue	Location
Mar 31, 1967	Jackie Gleason	Knoxville Civic Coliseum	Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
May 13, 1964	NAACP Star Spectacular Ed Sullivan / Harry Belafonte / Tony Bennett / Nat King Cole / Dorothy Dandridge / Sammy Davis Jr. / Ruby Dee / Jackie Gleason / Mahalia Jackson / Max Roach / Lena Horne / Duke Ellington / Steve Allen / Dick Gregoary and the Freedom Singers Photos	The Denver Auditorium	Denver, Colorado, United States