Northwest Dance Halls

Isy's Supper Club
Vancouver, British Columbia

Some of the bands that performed at this place during those great years of NW music were:
 

Frankie Avalon
Bobby Darin
Bobby Hales
Buddy Rich Big Band
Chubby Checker
Della Reece
Dusty Springfield
Earl Grant
Everly Brothers
Fats Domino
The First Edition with Kenny Rogers
Little Richard
Lulu
Stevie Wonder
New Vaudville Band
Vancouver Playboys
 

Others?
 

Isy and Richard built Isy's Supper Club in December 1959 and had that club until Isy died in the 1970's.

Richard (Ricthie) Walters, August 2007
 

I played with Bobby Hales' house band at Isy's in the late 60s and early 70s.  During that time I recall Stevie Wonder, Frankie Avalon, and Little Richard as the names that stand out in my memory as well as Buddy Rich and the others you've mentioned.  Bobby Herriot used to come over and sit in with the band on the late shows after he'd finished a gig at the Queen E or some such!

Dallas Hinton, September 2008
 

Earl Grant  performed there for many summers, usually in July.  He also attended the infamous garden parties thrown by my Grandmother, Vie Moore, of Vie’s Restaurant on Union St.

Ian Alexander, May 2010

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Last Update:  24 January 2012

Credits:   Dennis MacFadden, Richard Walters, Rick Hill, Dallas Hinton, Glenn Parfitt, Ian Alexander,  Wendy Malesku
Royal City Music Project, John Huscroft, Jackie Begley