These Amazing Vegas Acts Are Worth Every Penny

Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin performed at the Sahara and Flamingo often in Las Vegas, one of the classic and best remembered singers of Vegas lore. Darin had a wonderfully broad range, even writing the timeless hit “Danke Schoen” for Wayne Newton. Darin’s most famous song has to be “Mack the Knife. Darin’s 15-year singing career crossed into pop, folk, rock and country music. Bobby Darin also had appearances in television and the movies.

Bobby Darin said he wanted to be a legend by 25 and he was a legend when he died at 37 when he died of heart failure. “Bobby never left us,” Vegas icon Wayne Newton said of his friend. Darin died after heart surgery.