JOHN DOTE' / THE LAS VEGAS BULLET / By Bob Stupak
"THEME MAN ESTABLISHES HIS OWN NAME" / As I See It
By Bob Stupak / Vegas World
Look out Las Vegas, the "Theme Man" has arrived and he's vowed to not only make his mark on the entertainment scene, he hopes to change it's face. Those positive feelings were expressed by John Dote' as he sat in the living room of his home where no less than 10 gold records cover the walls. Dote' is the first to admit that "it isn't easy" but in the record buisiness, he's considered hot stuff. The New York-born singer, drummer, actor, television host is also a record producer and arranger who is credited with helping create some of television's top themes ranging from "Dallas" to "Dynasty".
One of his gold records, in fact, is for an album he produced called "Hooked On Themes", which includes an amazing number of TV show themes that he's been involved with. But that's all behind him now.
These days, Dote' is striking out on his own as an entertainer, disc-jockey and his current album "Hard Life" reached number 1 on internet radio Music Places.com and is starting to take off in several markets, most notably Europe. The confident sounding Dote' has his foot in the door, is off and running-and expects to bring the local entertainment scene to even higher levels. His concert on the fourth of July at Nellis Airforce Base was sold out to 10,000 screaming spectators. Dote' made quite an entrance in his Rolls Royce with the Colonel of the Airforce as the Chaffuer.
"I want to contribute to this town", said Dote', who may come off sounding brash but, in reality, seems sincere in his goals. " I have helped do it for all the big stars-now I want to do it for this town". Dote' can back up his words. He's been involved in record production for such names as Tony Bennet, Pearl Bailey, James Darren who starred in the 60's hit series ("The Time Tunnel "and " T. J. Hooker") and Liberace, just to name a few. And other themes that he's worked on include "Charlie's Angel's", "Hawaii Five-0", "Barnaby Jones", "The Untouchables" and "Rockford Files". Dote' comes by that producing and arranging naturally.
His father was also in the buisiness-and his biggest claim to fame was "discovering" the Doobie Bros. in, of all places, a San Francisco laundromat. He went in to do a load of wash and heard the Doobie Bros. "jamming in a back room" the son said. Now the son has followed those "guidelines" with his own record- with growing success.
John Dote' is a composer, arranger, entertainer, recording producer and television host.
Dote' hasn't limited himself to just recording album's, he also hosted his own television show that was ten years in the making called "Night Beat In Las Vegas" with John Dote'. The show help put Las Vegas on the entertainment map. The "who's who in the record buisiness were his featured guest's that included Santana, Lee Ann Rimes, Garth Brooks, Britney Spears and many others. He's also not kidding about dressing with color-with shirt open to the naval and chains dangling around his neck, Dote' looks as flashy off the stage as on- an image that has gotten him noticed as he pushes to see the name John Dote' appear on a Strip marquee as well as on record covers all over the country.
If his approach to the TV show is anything like he put's his music together, it has certainly proved to be different, that's for sure. "I design music" he said. "That's because I go from one extreme to another (when writing)-like combining rock and reggae. Contending that "when you dress with color", Dote' said he does the same with his music.
As I See It By Bob Stupak
