Wayne Newton

Wayne said, it isn't often in life that you get to repay someone who helped you along the way.

The band left Vegas to go to Australia and bumped into Jack Benny, who offered to work with the boys.

They toured with Benny for three years, making only $1,500 a week instead of the $10,000 a week they were making in the lounge.

After their run with Jack Benny, Wayne was supposed to start a Flamingo residency in support of Jack Carter.

However, Wayne decided he didn't want to be a supporting act anymore.

He proposed a deal.

He would perform as a headliner for the same money that he would get as a supporting act.

They agreed to let him headline in November of 1963, Vegas' slow period.

The engagement broke Flamingo's attendance records for the month.

Wayne credits Vegas locals for coming out in support of him.

He made $25,000 a week.

In 1967, Wayne rubbed people the wrong way when, after Kirk Corcoran bought the Flamingo, he didn't think that his contract should be a part of the sale of ice cream.