Performers of
" those Oldies, but Goodies"           
Music for  Baby Boomers,
Private & Holiday Parties,
55+ Community Dances,
Outdoor Events, Pool Parties
Beach Restaurants,
 Coney Island Baby  is a husband and wife Musical Duo, with over  
30 years of  Professional Entertaining experience.  Performing in New
York and South Florida  playing a wide variety of music like Oldies from the  
50's ,60's, 70's, Reggae, & Buffett.  Songs you love and know the words to -  
music you will dance to and have fun with.  Ask about our "Double Play"
package of continuous music.  There is no more important choice when
planning your special event than the entertainment you choose to ensure your
party's success. You get the sound of a full band for the price of 2.    
                      Economical and Professional.   That’s what it is all about.      
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      HOW DID THEY MEET
Beach at Coney Island
                CONEY ISLAND BABY      CONEY ISLAND BABY     CONEY ISLAND BABY
                                 Born on a mountain top in Brooklyn, NY just blocks from Coney Island  
                         BUNNI     was raised on a chicken farm in Lakewood, New Jersey.   It was there
                             where the young girl, growing up around several members of the Sy Laskin
                          Orchestra began her musical training.  At age 6 she began accordion lessons.   
At 9 years of age the young BUNNI girl was reunited with a woman known  only as  " Grandma"
who with the help of an old RCA Victrola and some 45 RPM  records, exposed her  to  the                         sounds  
of  Frank Sinatra, Eddie Fischer, Patti Page, & Les Paul & Mary  Ford.

                   At a similar time in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, a young boy was growing
                    up addicted to the Brooklyn Dodgers.  With the smell of the wet Brooklyn streets in his
                       blood, he would walk to PS 200 where he first got his first taste of music in a school
                       classroom.  It was during music class when the big cardboard box was  passed
                       around, that he discovered he excelled on the tambourine and triangle.
                       It was the beginning of  his musical career.

                            THE TEEN YEARS to PRESENT

                             Playing the accordion  was the beginning of Bunni’s meteoric rise to fame.  Her first performance was playing  
                        accordion in front of her classmates at a school assembly in Brooklyn .  Upon conclusion, the audience burst  
                        into loud applause, not at the rendition of “ Lady of Spain “, it was that her dress was caught in the bellows of  
                       the accordion to the delight of all the boys.  This event in 1957, caused Bunni to flee her beloved Bensonhurst,
                      Brooklyn and  moved to Deer Park, Long Island.  There she eventually met  Linda  & Ann, and they spent after
school in the basement  singing “Girl Group" songs.  These 3 formed a group called   “ The Schoolgirls”.   Bunni wrote
a song the girls recorded  with a band backing them called  "The Dynamics" with Bobby Columbe ( who formed a famous
Long Island band "Super Suds of Rhythm" ( he also became founder of  RALPH - the  Honeymooners Club).  
The song  “ I Guess We’re Not  in Love”, started to receive local airplay on Long Island radio station WGLI ‘s "The Night
Train Show".  It was around this time when Bunni came into contact with the person who had the biggest impact on her
career, her music teacher – Mr. Fanos.  
           As fate would have it a singer, songwriter named Tony Amato heard about Bunni from the radio stations’ program
manager - Joe Columbo,  and he contacted her to do background arrangements  and background vocals for his songs.
He eventually joined a group called  which also  had local success.   But fame was not to come her way , her mother
prohibited her from entering the sleazy world of rock ‘ n roll, and whisked her off to Rego Park, Queens .
From there,  it was Hunter College, a degree in Music Education, a brief teaching career in Harlem, NY,  marriage and the
birth of Alison.  Once Ali entered school, Bunni started giving piano lessons in the Port Jefferson  Long Island for the next
20 years.   It wasn't until 1994, when she answered a personal add and met a guy named Bruce,  that her musical career began  
again.   She received a Korg X3 keyboard and learned to sequence songs.
     She became the keyboard  player in a band called " The Cavaliers" who had a # 2 Hit song " Last Kiss" .   After several
                          years  with The Cavaliers, she decided to form a duo with her now husband Bruce.   After a trip to Key West
                          they started out doing easy listening tropical, beach style music and called themselves  DUVAL STREET.
                          Working from Dec- April in Florida they began calling themselves   Coney Island Baby,  
                          playing music from the  50's,60's, 70' and todays songs for adult audiences.



Bruce         began his musical career as a trumpet player in the school band. His specialty was  playing  Popeye the Sailor Man" which  
                 got  him kicked out of the band.   Giving up  the trumpet  he was watching the Jack Paar & Ed Sullivan shows and
                 saw the  Beatles and decided  he had to  learn guitar.  After getting hit by a car, he did nothing but practice the guitar
                 and after several  years and several colleges he began playing guitar in a band.  But  since  the world is full of guitar
                 players,   Bruce switched to bass  guitar and joined a wedding band  and an Oldies band.
                       While playing in the Oldies band, band Bruce had the chance to  perform on TV shows  like  the  Jerry Lewis Labor Day
Telethon        and on  Radio shows like Don K Reed's  " Doo Wop Shop"  on NY radio station  WCBS-FM.      After several years the
                 band broke up due to medical reasons and he  became the bass player for  "  The Reflections"  who had a hit record  
" Just Like Romeo and  Juliet".    While doing a show he met several members of another group who asked him if he  was  interested in
working with them.  So he joined  " The Cavaliers"  where he  became musical director for the group.  For the next several years they
worked up and down the East Coast appearing in Oldies shows, and at  Rye Playland, playing live radio concerts with
Cousin Bruce Morrow and  Westbury Music Fair.    He met Bunni and within a year she joined the band.  But working with large groups
was becoming old and Bruce and  Bunni decided it  was  time to work together and now you are up to date.  They currently appear as
Coney Island Baby.   
               You should see them in person for and evening of music, dancing and entertainment
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