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Johnny Rivers arrived on the Pop / Rock scene with the appearance of the album 'L.A. Reggae' published on November 30, 1971. The track 'Brown Eyed Girl' was instantly a success and made Johnny Rivers one of the newest emerging performers at that time. Later on, Johnny Rivers published the hugely famous album 'Last Boogie in Paris' which contains some of the most popular music from the Johnny Rivers collection. 'Last Boogie in Paris' features the track 'Sea Cruise' which has become the most well-known for fans to hear during the performances. In addition to 'Sea Cruise' , a host of other songs from 'Last Boogie in Paris' have also become sought-after as a result. A handful of Johnny Rivers's most beloved tour albums and songs are found below. After 45 years since the release of 'L.A. Reggae' and having a true effect in the business, followers consistently head to hear Johnny Rivers in person to play songs from the full collection.

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Johnny Rivers: Greatest Hits

• The seventh Son
• Multiplication

Johnny Rivers: Last Boogie in Paris

• Over The Line
• Barefootin'
• Summer Rain
• Walking Blues
• Rock Me A Little While
• John Lee Hooker

Johnny Rivers: Realization

• Look To Your Soul
• The Way We Live
• Whiter Shade Of Pale
• Brother, Where Are You
• Something Strange
• What's The Difference
• Going Back To Big Sur
• Positively 4th Street

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Johnny Rivers at Commerce Casino, Commerce, CA, USA

• Midnight Special
• Down at the House of Blues
• The Seventh Son
• The Tracks of My Tears
• Mountain of Love
• Summer Rain
• The One You Love
• The House of the Rising Sun
• I Don't Know Where Love Comes From; I'll be with in the end in this life of mine??
• Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
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Johnny Rivers at Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, TN, USA

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Johnny Rivers at Treasure Island Resort & Casino, Welch, MN, USA

• James Bond Theme
• Mountain of Love / Lawdy Miss Clawdy

Johnny Rivers at Ravinia Festival 2018

• By the Time I Get to Phoenix

Johnny Rivers at The Showroom at Talking Stick Resort, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

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• Memphis, Tennessee ( 43 )
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Purchase Johnny Rivers tickets and experience music from pop, to blues, to old-time rock ‘n’ roll. Johnny’s original last name was Ramistella, but he decided to change it to Rivers in 1958 because it portrayed a better stage name. Rivers is best known for the seven hit singles that he released between 1964 and 1968. The singles included “Memphis”, “Mountain of Love”, “The Seventh Son”, “Secret Agent Man”, “Poor Side of Town”, “Baby I Need Your Lovin”, and “Summer Rain.” Johnny moved from New York City to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was influenced by the distinctive style of Louisiana music. By the age of eight, Johnny had a guitar in his hands and was being taught how to play by his father. When Johnny entered junior high, he joined his first band named The Rockets . Johnny created his own band at the age of fourteen named Spades and they recorded on the Suede Label.

Johnny Rivers decided he would tour along the south part of America for the next couple of years alongside Brother Dave Gardner. He also had the opportunity to work alongside Roger Miller. Rivers met James Burton who recommended his song, “I’ll Make Believe”, to Ricky Nelson who wanted to record it. Throughout the recording process, Rivers found work as a studio musician at a nightclub in Hollywood. He played a jazz combo there where he gained instant popularity with the crowd. Rivers was offered a one-year contract with Elmer Valentine to open at the Whisky a Go-Go, on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. Johnny also wrote songs for a British television series Danger Man that starred Patrick McGoohan. Do not miss out on some great Louisiana-style music and order Johnny Rivers tickets.

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The average price of a Johnny Rivers concert ticket is around $97 per ticket. If you’re looking for cheap Johnny Rivers tickets, you’ll find better prices for cheap tickets in the upper levels furthest from the stage. Discount tickets that are farthest from the stage will typically be under $49. If you are looking for premium seating or VIP tickets, you can expect to pay over $150 per ticket in most cases.

Johnny Rivers Tour Dates & Concert Schedule

Johnny Rivers tour dates vary from year to year. In most cases, tours tend to be 6-12 months, but can extend over multiple years especially if it is a final tour. Johnny Rivers concert schedule will typically have 25-50 tour dates.

There also can be a performance at music festivals across the country that include Coachella , Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo Music Festival. Bonnaroo is held in Manchester, Tennessee. Coachella is held at Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California and Lollapalooza in the United States is held at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois. It's easy to find seats to Johnny Rivers tour when you shop with us. Shopping with TicketSmarter even makes it easier to get into the venue. Our mobile transfer Johnny Rivers tour tickets let you skip past the box office line and head right for your seats.

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The seating capacity will vary depending on the venue utilized for the tour or festival. With large festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza , you can have upwards of 100,000 concertgoers per day. For most large scale arenas like T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the seating capacity is around 20,000 seats. Just a few of the luxury seating options include suites, box seats and VIP concert tickets. Most festivals will include general admission and lawn seating.

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Songs from the Johnny Rivers Tour Setlist

Johnny Rivers's setlist while performing in Commerce , CA at “Commerce Casino” included the following songs:

• Midnight Special
• Down at the House of Blues
• The Seventh Son
• The Tracks of My Tears
• Mountain of Love
• Summer Rain
• The One You Love
• The House of the Rising Sun
• I Don't Know Where Love Comes From; I'll be with in the end in this life of mine??
• Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
• Poor Side of Town
• Baby I Need Your Loving
• Memphis, Tennessee
• Secret Agent Man
• Slow Dancing

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Johnny was born in New York and his family moved to Baton Rouge, LA when he was five years old. He grew up listening to many of the blues artists recording in New Orleans such as Fats Domino, Little Richard, and other artists being played on the radio including Chuck Berry.

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‘Johnny Rivers at the Whisky à Go Go’ @60: Rockin’ on Stage

In a nod to the Mighty Mississippi, by the time Ramistella was 18 he’d adopted the stage name “Johnny Rivers” at the suggestion of influential DJ Alan Freed, and recorded for a number of small labels without much commercial success.

As he told writer Mike Ragogna in 2013, Rivers had seen Elvis Presley playing live as early as 1954 and saw the future emerging out of the country and western scene. Eventually, “Just like anybody else, Chuck Berry was one of the great influences, and Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, Jimmy Reed…I also listened to Fats Domino, a lot of the New Orleans guys…There were so many South Louisiana guys including Slim Harpo, he was from Baton Rouge. Being a young guitar player, I always gravitated to guitar songs…back in those days in the ’50s and ’60s, there were a lot of guitar instrumental hits.”

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After Hank Williams’ first wife Audrey encouraged Rivers to move to Nashville, he got work there as a songwriter and demo singer, but just about gave up on live performances. The Louisiana-born guitarist James Burton, who played with Ricky Nelson, recommended one of Rivers’ songs, “I’ll Make Believe,” to Nelson, which led Rivers to relocate to Los Angeles in 1961.

A young Johnny Rivers

As detailed in many books, including Dominic Priore’s Riot on Sunset Strip and Erik Quisling and Austin Williams’ Straight Whisky , the L.A. nightclub scene was lively, but before the Beatles’ first recordings arrived in 1963, it was mostly a jazz and R&B scene. The club owner, Elmer Valentine, poached Rivers from a steady gig he played in a trio with bassist Joe Osborn and drummer Eddie Rubin at Gazzarri’s Italian restaurant, presenting them beginning on January 15, 1964, at a club he called Whisky a Go Go, after a Parisian discotheque he’d been to the previous year. A former bank building at 8901 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, it had a short-lived life as a club called the Party before Valentine renamed it.

With scantily clad female dancers gyrating in cages on an elevated platform, and a set of popular hits tailor-made for celebrities and scenesters who wanted to Frug, Watusi and Shing-a-Ling the night away, Rivers and company settled in as the house band for what became a wildly successful two years. The entrepreneur Lou Adler, who’d signed Rivers to his Dunhill Productions, convinced Imperial Records to finance a quicky LP, recorded live at the Whisky on Wally Heider’s dual Ampex tape machines in a truck parked outside the club, manned by engineers Bones Howe and Harold Linstrot.

Recorded in January 1964 and (amazingly) released the next month after some studio tinkering, Johnny Rivers at the Whisky à Go Go  was an immediate hit, reaching #12 in Billboard and staying on the chart for nearly a year. The 45 rpm release of Chuck Berry’s “Memphis” went to #2, kept out of the top spot by the Beach Boys’ “I Get Around.” Berry’s original 1959 version (as “Memphis, Tennessee”) was the single B-side to “Back In the U.S.A,” and hadn’t charted on its own.

“When I opened the Whisky,” Rivers told Ragogna, “No one was playing any rock and roll or blues here in L.A. The closest thing to any kind of rock and roll was the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean, so I brought that South Louisiana funky blues, stuff like that. I even used to close my set at the Whisky with a tribute to John Lee Hooker.”

The infectious and humorous “Memphis” contains plenty of crowd noise and handclaps (much of it overdubbed), and the confident, insistent tenor vocal and guitar playing that characterizes the entire set. It conveys some of the raw excitement of the Whisky dance floor in a direct, simple format, to a national audience ready to turn away at least partly from the trauma of JFK’s assassination. Just as the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan’s show, Rivers’ live album rode the wave of new, exuberant, fun rock and roll.

“It Wouldn’t Happen With Me” is a novelty number by Ray Evans that mentions Elvis, Rick Nelson and Jackie Wilson. It’s lyrically updated from Jerry Lee Lewis’ 1961 take (then titled “It Won’t Happen With Me”) to include verses about the Beatles in place of Fabian.

Don Gibson’s “Oh Lonesome Me” is done in a peppy rhythm that turns the 1958 country-pop crossover into a floor-filler, after considerable “sweetening” in the studio to add a sing-along and more whoops of delight. “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” a ripping version of Lloyd Price’s 1952 R&B hit, is one of the rawest recordings on the LP, and seems to have the least studio fiddling. It runs into a jam titled after the nightclub, based on snippets of “Baby Please Don’t Go” (inspired by the Muddy Waters version) and the Impressions’ “It’s Alright.” “Whisky à Go Go” is credited to Rivers, no doubt to give him some publishing income on an album otherwise filled with other people’s songs.

Rufus Thomas’ “Walking the Dog” has one of Rivers’ best vocals as he works the crowd, a simple but effective guitar solo two minutes in, and some groovy drumming. Another Chuck Berry B-side, “Brown Eyed Handsome Man,” might have been called “Brown Skinned Handsome Man” if Berry had been able to push his racial observations a bit further. Still, he inserted plenty of social commentary along with his usual wit. The tongue-twisting lyrics are handled perfectly by Rivers: “Milo Venus was a beautiful lass/She had the world in the palm of her hand/But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match/To get a brown eyed handsome man.”

Bill Cook’s “You Can Have Her (I Don’t Want Her)” was a hit for Roy Hamilton in 1961, and Bobby Darin had minor chart success with “Multiplication” in ’62; in the hands of Rivers’ trio both sound a bit rote, just filling out the live set and keeping the dancers moving. An excellent, hip-shaking six-minute medley of “La Bamba” and “Twist and Shout” completes the LP with more than a nod to another best-selling album, Trini Lopez at PJs , which perhaps gave Adler the idea of recording Rivers at the Whisky in the first place.

Johnny Rivers recorded four additional albums at the Whisky, yielding more hit singles, including “Seventh Son” and “Secret Agent Man,” but his distinguished career as a songwriter, singer and owner of the Soul City label (home to the Fifth Dimension, Al Wilson and other hitmakers) has much more to it than his early days stoking and exploiting dance crazes and the fad for live recordings. He’s had two dozen Billboard Hot 100 entries, and excelled at everything from ballads (“Poor Side of Town”) to revived oldies (“Rockin’ Pneumonia—Boogie Woogie Flu”).

Inexplicably, he hasn’t been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now in retirement at the age of 81, his last live performance was at Commerce Casino just south of Los Angeles in July 2023. As he said, surveying his long career, “I follow my heart and I work on projects I feel, and if it changes, that’s when I move on.”

Many of Rivers’ recordings are available in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here .

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The bassist playing with Rivers at the ‘Live at the Whisky a Go Go’ album, Joe Osborn, would go on to play on countless legendary recordings as part of The Wrecking Crew.

Think about some of the talent that Johnny nurtured. The 5th Dimension got its big break on the Soul City label, hitting with a song by one of Johnny’s songwriters, Jimmy Webb. What a time!

Why is this legend not in the R+R Hall? Shameful.

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There’s hardly a better way to absorb Moscow’s atmosphere than on a ship sailing up and down the Moskva River. While complicated ticketing, loud music and chilling winds might dampen the anticipated fun, this checklist will help you to enjoy the scenic views and not fall into common tourist traps.

How to find the right boat?

There are plenty of boats and selecting the right one might be challenging. The size of the boat should be your main criteria.

Plenty of small boats cruise the Moskva River, and the most vivid one is this yellow Lay’s-branded boat. Everyone who has ever visited Moscow probably has seen it.

This option might leave a passenger disembarking partially deaf as the merciless Russian pop music blasts onboard. A free spirit, however, will find partying on such a vessel to be an unforgettable and authentic experience that’s almost a metaphor for life in modern Russia: too loud, and sometimes too welcoming. Tickets start at $13 (800 rubles) per person.

Bigger boats offer smoother sailing and tend to attract foreign visitors because of their distinct Soviet aura. Indeed, many of the older vessels must have seen better days. They are still afloat, however, and getting aboard is a unique ‘cultural’ experience. Sometimes the crew might offer lunch or dinner to passengers, but this option must be purchased with the ticket. Here is one such  option  offering dinner for $24 (1,490 rubles).

If you want to travel in style, consider Flotilla Radisson. These large, modern vessels are quite posh, with a cozy restaurant and an attentive crew at your service. Even though the selection of wines and food is modest, these vessels are still much better than other boats.

Surprisingly, the luxurious boats are priced rather modestly, and a single ticket goes for $17-$32 (1,100-2,000 rubles); also expect a reasonable restaurant bill on top.

How to buy tickets?

Women holding photos of ships promise huge discounts to “the young and beautiful,” and give personal invitations for river tours. They sound and look nice, but there’s a small catch: their ticket prices are usually more than those purchased online.

“We bought tickets from street hawkers for 900 rubles each, only to later discover that the other passengers bought their tickets twice as cheap!”  wrote  (in Russian) a disappointed Rostislav on a travel company website.

Nevertheless, buying from street hawkers has one considerable advantage: they personally escort you to the vessel so that you don’t waste time looking for the boat on your own.

Prices start at $13 (800 rubles) for one ride, and for an additional $6.5 (400 rubles) you can purchase an unlimited number of tours on the same boat on any given day.

Flotilla Radisson has official ticket offices at Gorky Park and Hotel Ukraine, but they’re often sold out.

Buying online is an option that might save some cash. Websites such as  this   offer considerable discounts for tickets sold online. On a busy Friday night an online purchase might be the only chance to get a ticket on a Flotilla Radisson boat.

This  website  (in Russian) offers multiple options for short river cruises in and around the city center, including offbeat options such as ‘disco cruises’ and ‘children cruises.’ This other  website  sells tickets online, but doesn’t have an English version. The interface is intuitive, however.

Buying tickets online has its bad points, however. The most common is confusing which pier you should go to and missing your river tour.

“I once bought tickets online to save with the discount that the website offered,” said Igor Shvarkin from Moscow. “The pier was initially marked as ‘Park Kultury,’ but when I arrived it wasn’t easy to find my boat because there were too many there. My guests had to walk a considerable distance before I finally found the vessel that accepted my tickets purchased online,” said the man.

There are two main boarding piers in the city center:  Hotel Ukraine  and  Park Kultury . Always take note of your particular berth when buying tickets online.

Where to sit onboard?

Even on a warm day, the headwind might be chilly for passengers on deck. Make sure you have warm clothes, or that the crew has blankets ready upon request.

The glass-encased hold makes the tour much more comfortable, but not at the expense of having an enjoyable experience.

Getting off the boat requires preparation as well. Ideally, you should be able to disembark on any pier along the way. In reality, passengers never know where the boat’s captain will make the next stop. Street hawkers often tell passengers in advance where they’ll be able to disembark. If you buy tickets online then you’ll have to research it yourself.

There’s a chance that the captain won’t make any stops at all and will take you back to where the tour began, which is the case with Flotilla Radisson. The safest option is to automatically expect that you’ll return to the pier where you started.

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