Mae West: Different Drummer

It was fifty years ago today that Remo Belli sat behind a set of drums and played for MAE WEST when she performed in southern California. That gig, he recalled, was one of his last bookings as a band member.
• • In 1957, Belli became a Mylar drumhead manufacturer. Remo Inc., the company he founded, employs about 320 people and has a manufacturing plant in Valencia, California. The company makes 18,000 drumheads each day, Remo said.
• • "I never planned on doing this. I planned on being a musician," Remo Belli, now 79 years old, told the L.A. Daily News in a recent interview - - offering his recollections about working with Mae.
• • In 1912, Mae West learned how to play drums. Her boyfriend Joe Schenck, who had his own band, taught her. Then 19 years old, Mae was living in the Ridgewood section of New York City.
• • Joe Schenck rehearsed with Mae and his musicians in a clubhouse located at 70-12 Cypress Hills, Ridgewood, NY.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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