Hall of Fame Inductees

The Las Vegas Entertainers Hall of Fame does not have a physical home yet, but in February 2014, we realized how many of Las Vegas' fabulous entertainers were getting a little age on them.  We decided now was the time to honor them.  In February the first group of "old timers" gathered for a very small event at Skinny Dugans.  Those inducted were Jean Bennett for Lifetime Achievement in Media and Management; Robbie Robinison for Lifetime Achievement in Performance; Huck Daniels for Lifetime Achievement in Lounge Performance; Earl "Good Rockin'" Brown, for Lifetime Achievement in bringing jazz to Las Vegas.  All of the artists have performed on Las Vegas stages more fifty years of more.

Jean Bennett, as a manager and publicist, brought The Platters to the Moulin Rouge and Flamingo in 1956.  She moved the offices of Personality Productions to Las Vegas in 1966.  The Platters is the entertainment name on a marquee longer than any other - 58 years.  Jean booked them at the Four Queens for sixteen weeks a year for ten years.  They opened the Maxim and she put them on the stage at every major property in Las Vegas.

She also booked and promoted a many other opening and lounge performers including Bach Yen, The Kim Brothers, Scott Randolph, Anita McKune, and Two Cats and  Mouse.

Robbie Robinson began his career as a teenager working with The Platters.  But he has done it all.  In addition to being the original music director for The Platters, he also performed as a singer with various line-ups of the group over fifty years, and he has played his saxophone on just about every stage and club in Las Vegas with a host of other talented artists and is still working at it.  Robbie is what Las Vegas entertainment is  about. 

Like Robbie Robinson and Jean Bennett, Earl "Good Rockin'" Brown has kept people coming to Las Vegas for great entertainment for many decades.  It was Earl who first brought jazz to the lounges.  And it was Earl who brought  Huck Daniels to Las Vegas.

Huck Daniels has been a staple of Las Vegas entertainment for decades.  There is hardly a lounge he has not played with his exciting "Huck Daniels Review."  His was a show that left audiences wanting more.

If all of these inductees seem to be tied together somehow, they are.  This is Las Vegas.  This is where they have each made enormous contributions in creating the Entertainment Capital of the World, and at one time or another their paths have crossed.  They have worked together and filled our lives with music.