“We’re just going in to do the show and tell some of my story,” Ricci says. A statue of Old Blue Eyes is in the back. His signed letter from 1960, applauding the club’s opening, still hangs on a wall. Thursday is her debut at Italian American Club (doors at 6 p.m., dinner 6:30-7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., go to for the details). I would like you to go on tour with me.” Stunned, Ricci said, “Wow, this was my audition! Yes!”Ī Buffalo native, Ricci still lives in Vegas. But when I got out there, during the second song, I see this whole commotion in the right corner of the room. This was like the fourth or fifth time it happened. “I said, ‘Yeah, right,’ and I hung up on them. “I got this call in my dressing room, just before I went on, and they said ‘The Old Man’ was coming in,” Ricci says during a lunch at Bahama Breeze in Las Vegas. He was with his wife, Barbara his famed right-hand man Jilly Rizzo and such superstars of the day as Danny Thomas and Angie Dickinson. After repeated messages that he and his entourage would be rolling in, he finally followed through to catch Ricci’s set.Īfterward, the legendary Chairman of the Board invited her to his table. Sinatra had heard about this amazing young singer. Her meeting with Frank Sinatra at the lounge at the Aladdin hotel-casino is the stuff of Vegas legend. Ricci has drafted a storybook career from a break in 1975. The song is “Luck Be a Lady,” and Marlene Ricci is one lucky lady. Marlene Ricci is shown with Frank Sinatra in her days opening for the entertainment legend.
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