The Platters Await All Menutis Fans in Lafayette, LA, Sept. 3rd!
What a great Labor Day Weekend this 2011 celebration is shaping up to be!
The big Jimmy Menutis Birthday and 1950s-1960s Music Celebration has moved to Lafayette, Louisiana, the I-10 midway point between Houston and New Orleans, in a family effort to make Jimmy’s big celebration with his fans from both cities as equal a destination as possible.
Look, friends, and fanciers of the great music and artfully cool whip-dance fashion of that era, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity!
Where else are you ever going to have the chance to hear a headlining group like The Platters for free? Jimmy and Ruth Menutis are picking up the tab on bringing this iconic singing group to town with every memory string you may still have left in contact with numbers like, Only You, The Great Pretender, My Prayer, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Twilight Time, and Harbor Lights. The thoughts of these great songs alone are enough to make all of us fall in love all over again.
And this is no Time-Life music infomercial. This offer is free – free to all of you who are free to plan a beautiful holiday weekend deep in the heart of Cajun Country – where there is so much to do in addition to this golden chance for an evening time portal into those wonderful earlier times of the Jimmy Menutis Club in Houston and the birth of rock and roll.
You will have to provide your own transportation over to Lafayette, of course, and also pay for your hotel/motel room when you get there, but there is no charge for The Platters’ performance – and none for the old style whip dancing opportunity you are going to have at The Petroleum Club of Lafayette, the site of the big party. The Menutis family is still working on arrangements. If any news surfaces about special hotel rates for Menutis party goers, I will quickly publish them here.
One thing you will need to do is register with Ruth Menutis, JImmy’s wife and the arrangements planner, as soon as possible. Ruth needs a firm showing of hands on who is coming and how many people are included in each traveling party. The Petroleum Club can hold about 250 people and still have room for dancing, but Ruth needs to keep a gauge on names and numbers. This is going to be one popular venue come Sept. 3rd and folks need to make reservations to be guaranteed entrance.
The contact email address for Ruth Menutis is
Houston, 1959.
People who make early reservations will receive a special souvenir party invitation that includes a picture of the once gilded home of rock and roll in Houston, the Jimmy Menutis Club. Those who attend the party will get to express their own birthday good wishes to Jimmy in person; they will have the opportunity to fully participate, if they so choose in a planned whip-dancing contest; and, very mysteriously, they will also be on the spot for a possible surprise performing guest. I’m not free to say who this special guest might be, but come on, Jimmy Menutis never did anything small. Plug in your own imaginations.
That’s it for now, but get your reservations in to Ruth Menutis soon. As plans develop further, and Ruth advises me of them, I will publish everything I learn right here in The Pecan Park Eagle.
One more “by the way.” Lafayette rests just north of New Iberia, where they have been making “Tabasco” for generations. If you’ve never visited the swampy wildness where all this hot stuff is raised from seed and then processed into that delicious fiery sauce, make sure you leave yourself time for a great day trip to the Tabasco Plantation during your stay in Lafayette. And bring your camera. The feathered and scaly wildlife are both abundant in this region of the world.
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