As ice tinkled and dancers swayed on New Year's Eve at Broglio's, a nightclub in Kingston, N.Y., the bandleader sang:
Yes, we have no bananas, We have no bananas today. We've string beans and onions Cabbages and scallions . . .
Cracked Club Owner Lee Broglio: "That's his only plug for the grocery business." The bandleader, billed on holiday and weekend nights as Jimmy Cullen, is known on weekdays as James Aloysius Cullen, president of the grocery company credited with originating the modern supermarket: Long Island's thriving, 25-store King Kullen chain.
Bandleader Cullen's musical night life is a direct outgrowth of his...
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