#Lauren ashley newton series#

In particular, Benny hired Newton as an opening act for his show. Many prominent entertainment icons such as Lucille Ball, Bobby Darin, Danny Thomas, George Burns, and Jack Benny lent Newton their support.

#Lauren ashley newton series#

In the early to mid-1960s, Wayne also acted and sang as 'Andy' the baby-faced Ponderosa ranch hand in the classic western TV series Bonanza. Wayne would perform in Gleason's show twelve times over the following two years. They first performed 29 September 1962 in The Jackie Gleason Show. Originally signed for two weeks, the brothers eventually performed for five years, doing six shows a day. In the spring of 1958, near the end of his junior year of high school, a Las Vegas booking agent saw Newton on a local TV show, Lew King Rangers Show, in which the two Newton brothers were performing, and took them back for an audition. The brothers, as the Rascals in Rhythm, appeared with the Grand Ole Opry roadshows and in ABC's Ozark Jubilee, and performed for the president and auditioned unsuccessfully for Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour. However, Newton's severe asthma forced his family to move to Phoenix in 1952, where he graduated from North High School. He began singing in local clubs, theaters, and fairs with his older brother, Jerry.

While he was still a child, his family moved to near Newark, Ohio. Navy during World War II, Newton spent his early years in Roanoke, learning the piano, guitar, and steel guitar at age six. Newton has stated that his mother is half Cherokee and his father half Patawomeck. He is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Native American ancestry. He was born Carson Wayne Newton in Norfolk, Virginia, to Patrick Newton, an auto mechanic, and his wife, Evelyn Marie Plasters.