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<\/a>These are people like Chubby Checker<\/a>, Emmylou Harris<\/a>, Lyle Lovett<\/a>, Little Anthony<\/a>, Charley Pride<\/a> (left), Lesley Gore<\/a>, Bobby Rydell<\/a>, The Crystals<\/a>, Frankie Avalon<\/a>, The Drifters<\/a>. All have played or will play on cruise ships around North America. All have known varying degrees of success. All have maintained the ability to entertain, at least that’s been our experience, and we’ve gone out of our way to see many such oldtimers.<\/p>\nThe latest such theme cruise to surface is another Malt-Shop Memories Cruise<\/a> from Time-Life<\/a> and Sixthman, a theme cruise organizer. It’s on the Carnival Sensation<\/a>, it’s four nights of doo-wap and dancing after leaving Port Canaveral, and there’s a stop in the Bahamas along the way. Performers include Chubby \u2014 celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Twist \u2014 Little Anthony & The Imperials, The Crystals and The Drifters.<\/p>\n Musically themed cruises aren’t for everyone. USA Today’s Gene Sloan<\/a> fielded a complaint from one cruiser who claimed shipboard activities were altered on a Carnival cruise with a country music theme (Charley Pride) that ran throughout the ships’ bars and shops. The author, who warns cruisers to ask about themes before booking, hates country music.<\/p>\n Hard to believe that, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems to us that two things have been a boon to the concert industry over the past few years \u2014 casinos and cruise ships. You could say to the “small” concert industry, for entertainers who never have, never could or can no longer fill 20,000 arenas. Casinos more than cruise ships have provided them… Continue reading Cruise Ships a Haven for Entertainers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,36,19,15],"tags":[154,138,204,35,303,126],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-cruise-ship-entertainment","tag-cruises","tag-famous-entertainers","tag-norwegian","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BrandiCarlile.jpg\" "\\"BrandiCarlile\\"")
<\/a>Cruise entertainment also help the not-so-famous. A Washington State songstress, Brandi Carlile<\/a>, impressed Norwegian Dawn<\/a> passengers earlier this year. A long-time, under-the-radar singer\/songwriter named Jo-El Sonnier<\/a>, who has a Grammy-nominated song in his arsenal, impressed us on the Celebrity Millennium<\/a>\u2026he’s been around for two decades but we’d never heard of him.<\/p>\n