When you first meet Freddie Alonso at his elegant home on Pine Island (also known as Little Orchid Island), it’s hard to realize that this quiet, courtly gentleman once led the band at El Morocco, for many years the most celebrated nightclub in New York.
In the 1950s, anybody who was “somebody” sooner or later turned up at El Morocco. It had started in the ’20s as a speakeasy and turned legitimate when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. By the late ’30s it had become immensely popular with New York’s café society, and the city’s “season” was officially launched when the club reopened each fall. On the crowded dance floor, maharajas and movie stars mingled with sports figures and debutantes, all dancing to the scintillating Latin beat of Freddie Alonso & His Rumba Band.
Read the entire article in the March 2001 issue
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