Richard Skipper Celebrates George Pettignano 2/01/22

Published: Feb. 2, 2022, noon

For Video Edtion, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/rezPIO3aLFk George Pettignano has a deep love for singing and performing. In grammar school he sang in the choir . George started entertaining in the high school drama club and chorus doing the night club circuit in Brooklyn at 16 With his band Billy D and the boys, he was Billy Dee. A high school play coolest cat in town continued to street theater, summer stack, Café LaMama where he met and was befriended by Miss Ellen Stewart to City Center Theater. A brief run on Broadway in Grease when the coolest cat in town closed. 1980 after getting some assistance from Mr. Burt Reynolds, George went to California and had a meeting with Hal Needham's Stunts Unlimited and became a stunt man which was a life goal for him. Going through the 80s, he worked on major motion pictures and television shows and first met all the friends that he would continue to maintain friendships with like Tony Danza, Danny Aiello, Sonny Grasso Sylvester and Frank Stallone and many others that he worked with in the 80s. Starting again about 2005 with the help of friends, he resurrected his singing career. Met and became very good friends with Sal of Patsy's Italian restaurant in New York City and began putting shows together for him in New York and Atlantic City.  As a singer, George loves to sing, to be there and make people smile and he will do whatever it takes to make his audience happy. In 2014. he started the Philadelphia Music Hall of Fame for Bobby Rydell and all the other Philadelphia people who actually could not get into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame. Now, he enjoys his nightclub act entertaining at bars, restaurants, and in theaters and also doing a lot of private events.  He truly believes in old fashion nightclub entertainment clubs when music was cool and entertainment was outrageous.