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New Year's Eve
at the
Hotel Baronette

Overnight and Dinner Party Package

'230 per couple

Package Includes:

• Deluxe guest room with VCR, microwave, hot pot, in-room service bar, robes to enjoy
during your stay and hair dryer.
• Use of indoor pool, sauna, whirlpool and fitness center.
• 6 cocktails per couple — cash bar available.
• Hors d'oeuvre reception including gulf shrimp, stuffed mushroom caps, Oysters Rockefeller and more.

Four-course meal (Selections must be made at time of reservations — no changes will be accepted.)

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Lobster bisque or beef barley soup * Specialty house salad
Entree (Choice of one per person) Filet Mignon, Prime Rib, Salmon with dill sauce or Swordfish
Baked potato with chef's choice of vegetable.
Assorted miniature desserts.

• Live entertainment and dancing • Champagne Toast at Midnight • Party favors

All couples purchasing this package will be entered in a Grand Prize Drawing to win:
1st Prize — $250 Cash
3rd Prize — One weekend night stay in a deluxe guest room.
2nd Prize — One weekend night stay in our Presidential Suite

Room or dinner party packages also available.

For reservations or further information call:

313-349-6666

Lenny Solomon and his Shlock-Rock Band.

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ust how much did the
Beatles, collectively and
individually, know
about Jewish history? Pro-
bably about the same as the
late Roy Orbison, the Rolling
Stones or even Billy Joel —
which is to say, precious little.
Yet these past and present
rock superstars are unknow-
ingly contributing to the
education in at least a smat-
tering of Jewish history of
thousands of Jewish kids
around the world — via the
unlikely, but highly suc-
cessful medium of
Shlock-Rock.
The inspiration and crea-
tion of Lenny Solomon, a
30-year-old New Yorker born
and bred in Queens, Shlock-
Rock is indisputably the big-
gest noise in Jewish music to-
day. This unlikely group of
semi-professional, but
talented and dedicated musi-
cians, has forged a style in
which it inserts its own words
and message into well-known
rock hits from the 1950s
through to the present day.
The concept is hardly unique,
but what is unique about
Shlock-Rock is that it alone
has achieved commercial suc-
cess through its albums and
concerts.
In fact, the three things
that separate Lenny Solomon
from the rest of the pack of
Jewish musicians blaring
their wares at weddings and
bar mitzvahs, or on records
and cassettes of "Jewish
music," are the lines, the
message between the lines
and the bottom line.
The bottom line is now
positive, meaning that Lenny

makes a living from his
albums and appearances.
Coming from a highly
musical family, Lenny learn-
ed piano and accordion for 10
years from the age of eight
and minored in music in col-
lege. But he majored in ac-
counting and worked in that
field until 1985 when he
decided, with strong en-
couragement from his
parents, to quit crunching
numbers and make music his
full-time occupation.
Until then, he, like most
other performers in Jewish
music bands, was a part-timer
on the weekend circuit of
family celebrations and cam-
pus study groups and re-
treats. But a job offer of music ,=!\
director for a Jewish educa-
tional organization opened
the way for him to devote
himself to the activity he ex-
cels at — playing music as a
means of getting a message
across to people, especially
young people.
The vibes that Lenny wants
his audience to pick up are
Jewish awareness and pride,
and to this end he adapts
well-known hits with which
his listeners can identify.
Keeping the original music,
he inserts his own lyrics, all
of which have a distinct
Jewish content. The result is
shlock-rock, an idea which
many Jewish musicians have
toyed with, mainly for their
own amusement, but only
Lenny's group, Shlock-Rock,
has succeeded in mastering.
Lenny began writing shlock
songs as far back as 1982,
when he was with a band call-
ed Kesher which played stan-
dard "Chasidic rock" — i.e.
songs using biblical verses
and phrases from prayer ser-
vices, set to rock music. As he