Kansas City Lounge Lizard Legend Leaves Us

A nice write up of the great Al Latta gone to that piano bar in the sky . . .

"Latta was old school. His smoky voice piped out Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Neil Diamond, Elvis. He did impressions of Porky Pig and James Cagney. He drove Corvettes. He was constantly flirting with and serenading the female customers, often at the same time. He wrote a screenplay based on his life called “When Everything Is Not Enough.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

'His energy was unmatched': Al Latta, longtime Kansas City nightclub singer, dies at 73

Five nights a week, he put on a sequined jacket, shiny shoes and gobs of jewelry to croon smokily into a microphone - and flirt with the female customers.