Jerry T (the enforcer) was the Melody bouncer and Bob Anthony’s right hand man. He worked the box office most of the time. One Saint Paddy’s day Jerry’s standing by the box office shadow boxing. Jerry was a boxer back in his hey day. The crowd inside is drunk and rowdy. Alot of the guys just came from the parade. One customer comes staggering down the steps from inside complaining to Jerry about something. Before you can say “Ali” the guy takes a swing at Jerry. Jerry ducks under the guys swing and throws an uppercut that connects with the guys jaw. The guy goes down like a ton of bricks. He’s out like a light. When the guy falls his sport coat opens up to reveal a gun in a holster. All the lounge five guys are just standing there in amazement. We help Jerry get the guy on his feet and take him into Bob Anthony’s office. Bob and Al Kronish are already in there. Jerry explains what happen. We all agree. Bob ask the lounge five guys to leave. We found out later that the guy was a NYPD detective. Behind closed doors Bob and Al staightened out the whole situation. They got the guy a cab. Jerry was back in front of the box office shadow boxing. Just another day in the life of Melody. It was the place to be.
Suzaye London was a Melody favorite. She was hot to trot. She was a decent dancer. She had the ability to squirt milk from her breast even though she wasn’t pregnant. One time her buddy Danielle was on stage doing her twenty minute dance routine. Danielle was hot too! Well Suzaye was suppose to follow Danielle on, but about ten minutes into Danielle’s show here comes Suzaye on stage. Danielle seems to enjoy Suzaye being there. Suzaye starts taking off her clothes. Once undressed shes starts squirting the guys in the front row saying they aren’t tipping enough. Well the guys start giving more tips. Suzaye and Danielle start dancing hotter. They start touching and kissing each other. The audience goes wild. More tips onstage. They dance for about a half hour together. When they finish dancing the stage is filled with one and five dollar bills. Suzaye goes backstage and gets a big trash bag. They fill the bag with their tips and walk off. Just another day in the life of the Melody. It was the place to be.
Eddie, Eddie, Eddie! Everyone loved Eddie. Especially all the girls. We called Eddie the butt lover, but he was so much more than that. He was a pervert, but back in the seventies at the Melody we all had some type of fetish. Eddie loved the butt. He cherished women’s behinds. I’d never seen anything like it. The women loved Eddie for loving their behinds. I’ll give you the perfect example. One time I’m sitting next to Eddie at the Melody. Eddie calls Calico over for what I think is a lapdance. Well Eddie turns Calico around so that her butt is in his face. He gives her butt this long massage. You can tell Calico is liking this. He gives her ten dollars for ten minutes of her time. He starts rubbing harder. Each cheek in a circular motion. It almosst looks like he’s making a pizza pie. Calico starts leaning forward making moaning sounds. I’m just watching in amazement. I can tell the two of them have done this before. Eddie spreads Calico cheeks wide and this his head directly in there. He’s so far in it seems like all I see is his ears. Calico says “Oh Eddie don’t stop.” She reaaly looks serious. Like she’s reaching some kind of climax. Eddie continues his massage of each cheek even though I can’t see his face. Calico continues to moan and groan. She begins to shake, and shake still calling out Eddie’s name. If she’s faking it she’s better than Meg Ryan was in “When Harry met Sally.” Finally she let’s out these heavy sighs that have some of the other woman turning around looking at her. She lets out a final sigh and Eddie face finally emerges again. He kisses each cheek. Then he pats each cheek. Calico thanks Eddie. Eddie thanks Calico and its over. After Calico leaves I ask Eddie what did it taste like. He says “At first you taste the lotions and perfumes, but once you go deep enough it taste like crap.” That was Eddie. You just had to love him. He was a marvel of the Melody. The Melody was the place to be.
For me it all began back in the seventies. I had just finish watching a porno movie called “Peach Fuzz” starring Jean Dalton. I’m walking up Broadway crossing 48th Street when I look to my left and see the Melody for the first. The marquee says “Live Jean Dalton star of Peach Fuzz onstage.” I’m thinking “Wow I get to see her in person.” As soon as I open the door I get this fishy aroma up my nose. I walk up the stairs pay three dollars admission, walk inside and my life was never the same again. “PURE PANDEMONIUM! I’d never since anything like it before. I’ve never seen anything like it since. About two hundred guys in the audience going crazy. About ten girls on stage. Some were dancing. Some were in the middle of bacala sessions. Loud music, horns honking, sirens going off, and women screaming. It was like how I figured Sodam and Gomorah would have been. It was my intoduction to the Melody. I was awestruck. I took a seat in the back row and just sat there in disbelief at what I was watching. I actually closed and open my eyes a few times. It seemed like some type of erotic nightmare that I didn’t want to wake up from. It was my first day of many, days, months, and years at the Melody. I’ll never forget it. The Melody became my place to be. Oh yeah I did see Jean Dalton in person too!
Bob Anthony had to walk through the lounge area, and pass the lounge five to get to his office. Al Kronish and the other owners came and went, in and out of Bob’s office all the time. One time I was playing pinball. Judy V walks in the lounge and says she has to use the pinball machine. I thought she wanted to play a game so I back away. She gets up on the machine, tilts my game starts a bacala session right on the pinball machine. The room gets crowded quickly. Everyone is going bonkers. I can tell by her face Judy V is trying to reach the big O right on the machine. While all this is going on here comes Bob, Al and the other owners making their way by the box office and toward the lounge. The lounge five guys pick Judy V off the machine and rush her into the women’s bathroom. Bob, Al and the other owners are none the wiser as to what had just taken place. Judy V thanked each one of us later with a kiss. Just another day in the life of the Melody. It was the place to be.
My favorite porno star was Seka. There were so many great stars on the Melody stage. Stars like Vanessa Del Rio, Raven De La Croix, Venus Del Haven, Desiree Cousteau, Leslie Bovee, Phadera Grant, Annette Heinz, Annie Sprinkle, Tina Russel, Joey Karson, Kandi Barbour, Susan Nero, Samantha Fox, Tiffany Clark, Kristina Fox, Candy Staton, and Long Jean Silver. They are just the tip of the iceberg. Over the years I’ve forgotten more than I remember. They were all part of the Melody. They made the Melody and Harmony and the Follies the places to be.
After a guy would finish with his bacala session he’d go to the men’s room to clean up. Most guys had these little bottles of mouth wash. “King Fish” one of the oldtimers would tell the guys how each woman smelled and tasted. He told us once that one woman smelled like a dead bear. We all knew to stay away from her. I was more into the lapdance than bacala. However, once on my twenty-ninth birthday I decided to participate. I was the first one that day in Francine’s line. So I didn’t need a baby wipe. I was down there doing my thing when Seymour yells over the mike and says “Happy Birthday.” I was so embarassed at the time. Looking back now it was just another day in the life of the Melody. The Melody was the place to be. By the way Francine smelled and tasted real good!
I was part of a group of guys at the at the Melody. We called ourselves the “lounge five.” Because we took our breaks between lapdances and bacala sessions by hanging in the lounge area. Some of the best stuff happen out there. The lounge five consisted of myself(king massage),Bob(the photographer),Ray(the old timer),Doug(ebony lover),and Eddie(butt lover). Sometimes Howard would come hang out with us. Sometimes before a woman would go on she’d come to the lounge to let us know she was going on next. One time Rose Marie was on stage. She wasn’t making many tips. She came off the stage with nothing on, marched out to the lounge and said “I’m on stage guys.” We all went inside and gave her tips. Just another day in the life of the Melody. The Melody was the place to be.
Bacala time had to be seen to be believed. I think it started before lapdancing. Women would come onstage, move to one of the four corners of the stage remove all their clothes. The men would begin lines next to the girl they wanted sometimes the lines would grow to ten deep. Each guy would go down on the woman. Lick and lap for a dollar a minute usually until he ran out of dollars or he grew tired of licking. The next guy would wipe the woman off with a baby wipe and then begin the whole process over. Just another day in the life of the Melody. It was the place to be.
Calico one of the most popular woman toward the end od the Melody run. She wasn’t the greatest dancer, but she knew how to move to the music. She also knew how to get tips. Lapdances back in the seventies were a dollar a minute. Calico use to have cutomers that would give her sixty dollars for an hour of her time. She would sit on their lap facing them and just talk for an hour. One time I came to the Melody to see Calico. I saw her sitting on this guys lap. When she saw me she held up three fingers. That let me know besides the lap she was sitting on she had two more customers waiting. I found Chantal and had a good time with her. Just another day in the life of the Melody. It was the place to be.
Bob Anthony once told the lounge five that “If you think any of these ladies are sugar and spice and everything nice there’s this bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you. We all laughed. Bob Anthony was the heart and soul of the Melody. He’d always come out of his office telling us a story about him and Frank Sinatra. He was always singing on the mike. It was usually a Sintara song. Jerry T the bouncer was his right hand man. We called Jerry "the enforcer.” He was a nice enough guy as long as you stayed on his good side. They are two of the people that made the Melody the Nelody.
There were so many great headliners at the Melody. One of my favorites was Kristina Fox. She had all these beautiful costumes. Once she was undressed she would get into a tub filled with water and bathe to songs like “Tiny Bubbles,” and “Splish Splash.” So much good music. I remember Chantal dancing to Otis Redding’s “Try a little Tenderness.” She was so beautiful to watch. Joey Karson dancing to Donna Summer’s “Love to Love you Baby.” She was so heavenly with her movements. The Melody was the place to be.
The Melody must have opened in the early seventies. I started going in 1976. The oldtimers I met like “Fish”, and “Freddy” had been going there for quite awhile before me. I was witness to the first lapdance given by Margie Villa. There were so many beautiful women.My favorite was Joey Karson. She died of heart failure in 1998. I also was crazy about Calico she helped close down the Melody dancing to a Whitney Houston song “I want to dance with somebody.” I remember Annette Heinz very well. She was a tall,blonde with a southern accent. A very sexy woman. I watched her dance at the Melody and the Follies. A shout out to you Annette.I hope life is treating you well. There was Franchine, Silka, Nicky Knight, Asia, only to name a few. Does anyone remember the hot show put on by Leslie Bo and Phadera Grant in September of 1979. You all must remember Eddie and the three photograhers Nat, Bob and George. The Melody is long gone, but as long as we live it lives through us. Its really nice to know so many people remember. posted by melharfol on March 2, 2010 at 12:52pm
Jerry T (the enforcer) was the Melody bouncer and Bob Anthony’s right hand man. He worked the box office most of the time. One Saint Paddy’s day Jerry’s standing by the box office shadow boxing. Jerry was a boxer back in his hey day. The crowd inside is drunk and rowdy. Alot of the guys just came from the parade. One customer comes staggering down the steps from inside complaining to Jerry about something. Before you can say “Ali” the guy takes a swing at Jerry. Jerry ducks under the guys swing and throws an uppercut that connects with the guys jaw. The guy goes down like a ton of bricks. He’s out like a light. When the guy falls his sport coat opens up to reveal a gun in a holster. All the lounge five guys are just standing there in amazement. We help Jerry get the guy on his feet and take him into Bob Anthony’s office. Bob and Al Kronish are already in there. Jerry explains what happen. We all agree. Bob ask the lounge five guys to leave. We found out later that the guy was a NYPD detective. Behind closed doors Bob and Al staightened out the whole situation. They got the guy a cab. Jerry was back in front of the box office shadow boxing. Just another day in the life of Melody. It was the place to be.
Suzaye London was a Melody favorite. She was hot to trot. She was a decent dancer. She had the ability to squirt milk from her breast even though she wasn’t pregnant. One time her buddy Danielle was on stage doing her twenty minute dance routine. Danielle was hot too! Well Suzaye was suppose to follow Danielle on, but about ten minutes into Danielle’s show here comes Suzaye on stage. Danielle seems to enjoy Suzaye being there. Suzaye starts taking off her clothes. Once undressed shes starts squirting the guys in the front row saying they aren’t tipping enough. Well the guys start giving more tips. Suzaye and Danielle start dancing hotter. They start touching and kissing each other. The audience goes wild. More tips onstage. They dance for about a half hour together. When they finish dancing the stage is filled with one and five dollar bills. Suzaye goes backstage and gets a big trash bag. They fill the bag with their tips and walk off. Just another day in the life of the Melody. It was the place to be.
Eddie, Eddie, Eddie! Everyone loved Eddie. Especially all the girls. We called Eddie the butt lover, but he was so much more than that. He was a pervert, but back in the seventies at the Melody we all had some type of fetish. Eddie loved the butt. He cherished women’s behinds. I’d never seen anything like it. The women loved Eddie for loving their behinds. I’ll give you the perfect example. One time I’m sitting next to Eddie at the Melody. Eddie calls Calico over for what I think is a lapdance. Well Eddie turns Calico around so that her butt is in his face. He gives her butt this long massage. You can tell Calico is liking this. He gives her ten dollars for ten minutes of her time. He starts rubbing harder. Each cheek in a circular motion. It almosst looks like he’s making a pizza pie. Calico starts leaning forward making moaning sounds. I’m just watching in amazement. I can tell the two of them have done this before. Eddie spreads Calico cheeks wide and this his head directly in there. He’s so far in it seems like all I see is his ears. Calico says “Oh Eddie don’t stop.” She reaaly looks serious. Like she’s reaching some kind of climax. Eddie continues his massage of each cheek even though I can’t see his face. Calico continues to moan and groan. She begins to shake, and shake still calling out Eddie’s name. If she’s faking it she’s better than Meg Ryan was in “When Harry met Sally.” Finally she let’s out these heavy sighs that have some of the other woman turning around looking at her. She lets out a final sigh and Eddie face finally emerges again. He kisses each cheek. Then he pats each cheek. Calico thanks Eddie. Eddie thanks Calico and its over. After Calico leaves I ask Eddie what did it taste like. He says “At first you taste the lotions and perfumes, but once you go deep enough it taste like crap.” That was Eddie. You just had to love him. He was a marvel of the Melody. The Melody was the place to be.
For me it all began back in the seventies. I had just finish watching a porno movie called “Peach Fuzz” starring Jean Dalton. I’m walking up Broadway crossing 48th Street when I look to my left and see the Melody for the first. The marquee says “Live Jean Dalton star of Peach Fuzz onstage.” I’m thinking “Wow I get to see her in person.” As soon as I open the door I get this fishy aroma up my nose. I walk up the stairs pay three dollars admission, walk inside and my life was never the same again. “PURE PANDEMONIUM! I’d never since anything like it before. I’ve never seen anything like it since. About two hundred guys in the audience going crazy. About ten girls on stage. Some were dancing. Some were in the middle of bacala sessions. Loud music, horns honking, sirens going off, and women screaming. It was like how I figured Sodam and Gomorah would have been. It was my intoduction to the Melody. I was awestruck. I took a seat in the back row and just sat there in disbelief at what I was watching. I actually closed and open my eyes a few times. It seemed like some type of erotic nightmare that I didn’t want to wake up from. It was my first day of many, days, months, and years at the Melody. I’ll never forget it. The Melody became my place to be. Oh yeah I did see Jean Dalton in person too!
Bob Anthony had to walk through the lounge area, and pass the lounge five to get to his office. Al Kronish and the other owners came and went, in and out of Bob’s office all the time. One time I was playing pinball. Judy V walks in the lounge and says she has to use the pinball machine. I thought she wanted to play a game so I back away. She gets up on the machine, tilts my game starts a bacala session right on the pinball machine. The room gets crowded quickly. Everyone is going bonkers. I can tell by her face Judy V is trying to reach the big O right on the machine. While all this is going on here comes Bob, Al and the other owners making their way by the box office and toward the lounge. The lounge five guys pick Judy V off the machine and rush her into the women’s bathroom. Bob, Al and the other owners are none the wiser as to what had just taken place. Judy V thanked each one of us later with a kiss. Just another day in the life of the Melody. It was the place to be.
My favorite porno star was Seka. There were so many great stars on the Melody stage. Stars like Vanessa Del Rio, Raven De La Croix, Venus Del Haven, Desiree Cousteau, Leslie Bovee, Phadera Grant, Annette Heinz, Annie Sprinkle, Tina Russel, Joey Karson, Kandi Barbour, Susan Nero, Samantha Fox, Tiffany Clark, Kristina Fox, Candy Staton, and Long Jean Silver. They are just the tip of the iceberg. Over the years I’ve forgotten more than I remember. They were all part of the Melody. They made the Melody and Harmony and the Follies the places to be.
After a guy would finish with his bacala session he’d go to the men’s room to clean up. Most guys had these little bottles of mouth wash. “King Fish” one of the oldtimers would tell the guys how each woman smelled and tasted. He told us once that one woman smelled like a dead bear. We all knew to stay away from her. I was more into the lapdance than bacala. However, once on my twenty-ninth birthday I decided to participate. I was the first one that day in Francine’s line. So I didn’t need a baby wipe. I was down there doing my thing when Seymour yells over the mike and says “Happy Birthday.” I was so embarassed at the time. Looking back now it was just another day in the life of the Melody. The Melody was the place to be. By the way Francine smelled and tasted real good!
I was part of a group of guys at the at the Melody. We called ourselves the “lounge five.” Because we took our breaks between lapdances and bacala sessions by hanging in the lounge area. Some of the best stuff happen out there. The lounge five consisted of myself(king massage),Bob(the photographer),Ray(the old timer),Doug(ebony lover),and Eddie(butt lover). Sometimes Howard would come hang out with us. Sometimes before a woman would go on she’d come to the lounge to let us know she was going on next. One time Rose Marie was on stage. She wasn’t making many tips. She came off the stage with nothing on, marched out to the lounge and said “I’m on stage guys.” We all went inside and gave her tips. Just another day in the life of the Melody. The Melody was the place to be.
Bacala time had to be seen to be believed. I think it started before lapdancing. Women would come onstage, move to one of the four corners of the stage remove all their clothes. The men would begin lines next to the girl they wanted sometimes the lines would grow to ten deep. Each guy would go down on the woman. Lick and lap for a dollar a minute usually until he ran out of dollars or he grew tired of licking. The next guy would wipe the woman off with a baby wipe and then begin the whole process over. Just another day in the life of the Melody. It was the place to be.
Calico one of the most popular woman toward the end od the Melody run. She wasn’t the greatest dancer, but she knew how to move to the music. She also knew how to get tips. Lapdances back in the seventies were a dollar a minute. Calico use to have cutomers that would give her sixty dollars for an hour of her time. She would sit on their lap facing them and just talk for an hour. One time I came to the Melody to see Calico. I saw her sitting on this guys lap. When she saw me she held up three fingers. That let me know besides the lap she was sitting on she had two more customers waiting. I found Chantal and had a good time with her. Just another day in the life of the Melody. It was the place to be.
Bob Anthony once told the lounge five that “If you think any of these ladies are sugar and spice and everything nice there’s this bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you. We all laughed. Bob Anthony was the heart and soul of the Melody. He’d always come out of his office telling us a story about him and Frank Sinatra. He was always singing on the mike. It was usually a Sintara song. Jerry T the bouncer was his right hand man. We called Jerry "the enforcer.” He was a nice enough guy as long as you stayed on his good side. They are two of the people that made the Melody the Nelody.
There were so many great headliners at the Melody. One of my favorites was Kristina Fox. She had all these beautiful costumes. Once she was undressed she would get into a tub filled with water and bathe to songs like “Tiny Bubbles,” and “Splish Splash.” So much good music. I remember Chantal dancing to Otis Redding’s “Try a little Tenderness.” She was so beautiful to watch. Joey Karson dancing to Donna Summer’s “Love to Love you Baby.” She was so heavenly with her movements. The Melody was the place to be.
The Melody must have opened in the early seventies. I started going in 1976. The oldtimers I met like “Fish”, and “Freddy” had been going there for quite awhile before me. I was witness to the first lapdance given by Margie Villa. There were so many beautiful women.My favorite was Joey Karson. She died of heart failure in 1998. I also was crazy about Calico she helped close down the Melody dancing to a Whitney Houston song “I want to dance with somebody.” I remember Annette Heinz very well. She was a tall,blonde with a southern accent. A very sexy woman. I watched her dance at the Melody and the Follies. A shout out to you Annette.I hope life is treating you well. There was Franchine, Silka, Nicky Knight, Asia, only to name a few. Does anyone remember the hot show put on by Leslie Bo and Phadera Grant in September of 1979. You all must remember Eddie and the three photograhers Nat, Bob and George. The Melody is long gone, but as long as we live it lives through us. Its really nice to know so many people remember. posted by melharfol on March 2, 2010 at 12:52pm