Nightclubs: Natural-Seven Muzak

Las Vegas, where casino doors never close and show business acts are the loss leaders for the gaming tables, once had a problem with its graveyard shift. Predictably, there would be a lone high roller whose eyelids seemed to be held open by pieces of red pimiento; but the little money was creeping off to bed, and the problem was how to keep it awake.

Then the late Billy Burton, manager of the Mary Kaye Trio, talked the Last Frontier Hotel into doing something unheard of—booking the little-known Mary Kaye Trio into the...

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