George Hotz & Co. website
Photos of Australia Trip 6/04 Ireland Trip (2010) Hotz Music
Who's foolish enough to hire me -IHA - Chadwick's - BallyBunion
E-mail me: hotz183 at yahoo.com
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Entertaining each Saturday at Chadwick's
Restaurant 89th st & 3rd Ave, Brooklyn
Occasional Sundays at BallyBunion Restaurant
95th st and 3rd Ave, Brooklyn
Picture Galleries
| Winter Pics | Disney 2000 |
But I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep,
and miles to go before I sleep.
Sleep perchance to dream.
Aye, there's the rub.
Hatched in Bay
Ridge Hospital, Brooklyn - 8 /20 / 53 ( or as we say in Aussie- 20 / 8
/ 53)
Domiciled and Nourished at 936 - 75 st. by Virginia (teacher) & George
II (cop / clerk)
Professional singing debut at the Lincoln Savings Bank ( $.25 from the
security guard for Silent Night)
PS 176 Kindergarten (dropped out) - St.
Ephrem's school - Xaverian High
School Class of '71
22-2-12 - Souled Out - Frown ( Is Andre on this bus?) - LongView Farm Cairo
NY
3200 in 4 SAT/GRE Math sections- you do the math
SUNY at Buffalo - Universidad
de Salamanca, Spain - University of
New England, NSW Australia
Summer work : taxi driver
/ musical director of Everyman Theater group
1971
Drove Geraldo Rivera's
volkswagon (albeit only 8 feet) while working on One-to-One
1974 - Eurailed
two months thru Europe
1975- Belgium Encounters - French discussion groups
Instigated One-for-One festival in Buffalo NY based on One-to-One in NYC
Greyhound bused two months
thru USA
1976 - Australian emigrant - Tamworth
NSW - Country Music Capital
of Australia
Spoke with Prince Phillip - though He probably
wouldn't remember.
When in Rome . . . City Boy in the Country
(reached #13 on the local charts)
Teamed with Cal
for 2nd place in nationwide TV talent quest / jumped out of a plane
Curra-what (reached # 87 (out of 50) on the local charts)
1980 - Retired from teaching - moved to the beach
- sang for my supper - self-serve oysters
Kingscliff Pub - Twin
Towns Services Club - Greenmount
- Jetaway Cruises
First computer Apple ][ - 46
Pacific Parade
Activity director on South
Stradbroke Island Resort - "Volleyball and Bingo!"
1983 - Biked around the World (except for the wet parts)
5 summers Crooning on Crete, Agios
Nikolaos
Wrote poem for Raffles
, TV commercial for Tiger beer (Singapore), umpired International Softball
Paris rendezvous with future
wife
1987 - Thai
Tribal Wedding on Thanksgiving
Started singing at Chadwicks - still going
Not so tribal wedding to Marie on September 30 1988
Mil born 1989
1992 -Return downunder for 2 1/2 years
Bought 30 Pacific Parade
- beachfront home
Julia Rosie born 1993
1994 - Return NYC
Thanksgiving
1995 - Unretired from teaching IHA
1997 - Bought Lakefront home Glen
Rock NJ
If you detest all music written during the last 12 years, then
I'm your man.
Fresh jazz Christmas Carols mixed with stale Cat Stevens covers.
All the Broadway songs that you're sick of topped off with Mel Torme hits.
Request from over 1500 mediocre ballads or American Pie.
If this sounds like your cup of tea, I'm yours for a mere $34.99
/ per hour (not including tux).
Cheaper if you've got a grand piano. Call (201) 251 8436 (no agents please)
Available Sunday - Friday (check out Chadwick's
on Saturdays)
Seriously, . . . I've been getting paid for this stuff for over 25 years so I'm either good or the world is full of tasteless deaf people.
Though I can't see around the equator,
I know that the cross still exists.
I smile to remember
the nights that I had
And imagine the nights that I missed.
Divorced by a pair of blue oceans.
Enforced by commitments I love.
My heart still remains
on the Nulabor Plains
With the Southern Cross shining above.
Australian Friends and memories
Not only does Currabubula NSW, a minute town of less than 100 people, whose 4 pianos I used to tune, have some web sites, Yahoo gives it its own category! Curra-what, a diddy co-authored by former Curra-resident (till Noralunga burned down) John Charles (of RSL Mardi Gras fame), was written as a joke. It was performed (under the influence of Toohey's New) at the National Country Music talent quest (1979) in Tamworth by a makeshift band, including newcomers John Cal on slide trombone, Mark Paton on spanners, Steve Charles (Curra-child) on bass, radio Superstar Bob Lipman on tin cans and yours truly on fiddle. We finished third. Several months later it was recorded (thanks to Mike Mooney and Jim the doorman of the RSL club) and featured Rhonda Burchmore's recording debut (cackling laughter).
See who's playing in Tamworth this week?
Write to Barney Kathy and Did - The Pritchards of Cudgen - who proved that having a web-site can wake up some 20 year-old ghosts.
