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By 1963, Zanders had become a celebrity himself, he was written up in Ebony magazine and featured in a full page advertisement for New York Life Insurance proclaiming their insurance to be as good an investment as his Rolls-Royce. The Rolls was a particular favorite of Wayne. Priding himself on offering the highest client service to all, standard jobs offered by his company Zanders Auto Rental Service included anything from dry cleaning pick up to completing banking for clients while some of the more bizarre stories include sending 100 pounds of shrimp to John Wayne when he was in Paris and delivering $200,000 for Onassis. Kennedy, Red Skelton, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Danny Kaye and Aristotle Onassis. As his business swelled, Zanders' client list became a roster of high profile individuals of the day ranging from Fidel Castro to Richard Nixon and including Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Nat King Cole, Ethel Merman, Harry S. From then onwards it was the star of his growing fleet of limousines, the only Rolls Royce for hire in Manhattan. Shipped from Liverpool on December 4th, 1958 the Rolls was in service shortly before the New York Times article we quoted above. Clearly it was to be used throughout the warm summer and potentially brutal New York City winter. Finished in Shell Grey over Tudor Grey with green upholstery, notable features included: summer and winter thermostats (the latter to be supplied not fitted), pressurized radiator, cold weather shields to door locks, sealed beam headlamps, no button to gearlever, under seat rear heater, interior clock and air-conditioning (which was to be fitted on arrival in the U.S.). James Young was the coachbuilder, supplying coachwork with six 'lights'/windows, suggesting that in those days the likely clientele was very happy to be seen being driven in the chauffeur driven Rolls-Royce. Not surprisingly for a self made man crystallizing his dream it was a highly detailed order. At that point he realized that he could fulfill his childhood dream and ordered a custom Rolls-Royce Limousine, which naturally would enhance his business.įor this reason, and the Rolls-Royce records note this, he personally ordered this car directly from the company. Within 10 years he'd not only worked out that there was a market for a top level chauffeur and concierge service, he had become the choice of a whole host of celebrity clients, having first been recommended by Gertrude Lawrence who had praised his efficiency to her friends. he owns a $23,000 Rolls-Royce.' That Rolls-Royce is this Rolls-Royce and was the product of the archetypal American Dream tale of a Youngstown, OH boy who worked his way up from the bottom and began chauffeuring in his early thirties.
He is a patron of the arts, a gentleman of impeccable taste and. Zanders is a chauffeur who has a chauffeur. Billy Joel is the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States.By way of introduction to the legend that was Roosevelt Zanders, there's no better summary than that made by Gay Talese writing in the New York Times in April 1959 – He is a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 150 million records worldwide. Best known for his first hit song, ‘Piano Man’, in 1973, Billy has written and recorded thirty-three Top 40 hits in the United States.
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She’s been living in her white bred worldīilly Joel’s official YouTube channel features music videos, live performances, interviews, TV appearances and more. Watch more of Billy Joel’s official music videos Watch the official music video for ‘Uptown Girl’, which became a Top 10 hit in the US that year. In 1983, Billy Joel released his album An Innocent Man, an album that traces Joel’s musical history through his teenage years in the late ’50s and early ’60s.
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