17 Photo: My Appearance on “The Today Show” with The New Christy Minstrels, then having to move from GP MI, to rural Ohio. Song: “Without You”
The photo above shows me standing in front of The New Christy Minstrels, and again, with my duo member Robin Wright (left) playing bass with me on guitar, and singing. All of us were guest artists on “The Today Show”, which was the first of my four performing appearances on National Network Television. Robin’s brother Randy Wright soon joined the duo, and as a trio we called ourselves “The Wright Clefs and Dover”.
As a future single act, I started billing myself as “The Right Clefs” (ie. see excerpt from recent video in Naples FL. During the Viet Nam War, I auditioned, and was chosen to travel and entertain at military bases under the direction and of the late Sally Reynolds. Besides my work with the USO, I spent my jr. high school, and first high school years in children’s theatre, then community theatre, with performances at the Grosse Pointe, Michigan’s War Memorial Theatre, William Fries Auditorium, Cobo Hall, and played solo, duo, or three piece each year for the Grosse Pointe annual hootenannies. Other performances include engagements at Detroit’s Roostertail restaurant, and a solo performance for the Welcome Wagons Club of America to a packed house at Detroit’s Cobo Hall, with the Detroit News review describing me as “The matinee idol of the day”, and the Detroit Free Press wrote, “Doug Dover has officially started his professional acting career”. Some of my other credits include performing in Grosse Pointe High School’s choir, and Dr. Kliene’s singing group “The Upperclassmen”. I also helped start the Grosse Pointe, MI rock group “The Chosen Few”. While always choosing to sing in school and church choirs wherever, and whenever possible, I sang for eight years year round in Naples Church Choir, and became a member of the Philharmonic Choir directed by James Cochran, as well as sang in The Choral Arts Society Choir directed by Ralph Stewart and Rosemary Schroeder, with many numerous other single musical performances.
FYI, you can click here on Doug Dover – YouTube, to see 23 of my most recent performances. Or go to ENTERTAINMENTNOW.US on the internet.