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Few musical acts in the past 50 years have consistently enjoyed greater popularity and following worldwide than The Lettermen, the celebrated male pop vocal group of the ’60s which has captivated fans with pop hits like The Way You Look Tonight, Theme From A Summer Place, Goin’ Out Of My Head, Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing, and many more.

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Famous vocal group The Lettermen, composed of Tony Butala, Donovan Tea and Bobby Poynton, are coming again to the Philippines, this time for a special Christmas show this November, something they have never done be- fore in past visits to the country.

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My most memorable encounter with The Lettermen is not in any of their many concerts that I’ve watched because all of them are memorable. The group — current members are Tony Butala,

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Music fans will be treated to four delightful and memorable evenings of some of the great hits of the ‘60s from one of the most popular male pop vocal groups of all time when The Lettermen returns for another nostalgia tour that will kick off with a major concert on Nov. 11 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater at Resorts World Manila, Pasay City.

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Like in their previous concerts in a span of five decades, the one on July 28 was an “unchained” one, a free-wheeling sing-along encouraged by the trio who doesn‘t seem to get tired singing their old hits, in response to insistent public demand.

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Us folks who were very much around during the ’50s and ’60s were absolutely thrilled to watch The Lettermen the other night at the Manila Hotel’s Tent City.

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[DatePublished] => 2006-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135299 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1536606 [AuthorName] => Nathalie Tomada [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 320630 [Title] => Traces and memories [Summary] => The Christmas card came from Nuncia Villaraza, an old classmate in high school who’s now based in Chicago. I laughed when I saw her familiar scrawl as she wrote the acronym "SWAK" across the sealed flap of the envelope. That means "sealed with a kiss."

Back in high school, there was never a correspondence that we didn’t seal with a SWAK and mean it. We used it even more when a popular group in the ’60s sang about it. That group was The Lettermen.
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Few musical acts in the past 50 years have consistently enjoyed greater popularity and following worldwide than The Lettermen, the celebrated male pop vocal group of the ’60s which has captivated fans with pop hits like The Way You Look Tonight, Theme From A Summer Place, Goin’ Out Of My Head, Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing, and many more.

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Famous vocal group The Lettermen, composed of Tony Butala, Donovan Tea and Bobby Poynton, are coming again to the Philippines, this time for a special Christmas show this November, something they have never done be- fore in past visits to the country.

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My most memorable encounter with The Lettermen is not in any of their many concerts that I’ve watched because all of them are memorable. The group — current members are Tony Butala,

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Music fans will be treated to four delightful and memorable evenings of some of the great hits of the ‘60s from one of the most popular male pop vocal groups of all time when The Lettermen returns for another nostalgia tour that will kick off with a major concert on Nov. 11 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater at Resorts World Manila, Pasay City.

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Like in their previous concerts in a span of five decades, the one on July 28 was an “unchained” one, a free-wheeling sing-along encouraged by the trio who doesn‘t seem to get tired singing their old hits, in response to insistent public demand.

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Us folks who were very much around during the ’50s and ’60s were absolutely thrilled to watch The Lettermen the other night at the Manila Hotel’s Tent City.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 378304 [Title] => The ’N Sync of the ’60s and ’70s [Summary] => One of the major influences of the boy band phenomenon is the legendary group called The Lettermen. The boy band craze started some 46 years ago with the birth of the group, whose name, as one of its founding members would say, "was a wrong choice." I totally disagree. The Lettermen is one of the hottest bands still around. They have contributed numerous hits including The Way You Look Tonight, When I Fall in Love, Come Back Silly Girl, Goin’ Out Of My Head, Hurt So Bad among others. These songs are now cult classics.
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[DatePublished] => 2006-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135299 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1536606 [AuthorName] => Nathalie Tomada [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 320630 [Title] => Traces and memories [Summary] => The Christmas card came from Nuncia Villaraza, an old classmate in high school who’s now based in Chicago. I laughed when I saw her familiar scrawl as she wrote the acronym "SWAK" across the sealed flap of the envelope. That means "sealed with a kiss."

Back in high school, there was never a correspondence that we didn’t seal with a SWAK and mean it. We used it even more when a popular group in the ’60s sang about it. That group was The Lettermen.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135323 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1461085 [AuthorName] => Letty Jacinto-Lopez [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => ) ) )
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