During the first (and only) year at college, Charlie Shaffer played at some of the private clubs around Houston, but when summer came he relocated to Las Vegas, supposedly temporarily. He performed continuously (except for two years military service) at virtually every hotel there, plus Liberace's "Tivoli Gardens". He appeared in a Warner Bros. movie, on the Saturday night Dick Clark TV Show, and other network shows. Some award winning Las Vegas hotel commercials were composed by Charlie. He has also written orchestral arrangements for performance on the TV shows of Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Sammy Davis Jr, and Joey Bishop. As rehearsal

pianist for the Jackie Gleason Las Vegas TV Show he worked daily with June

Taylor, Ben Vereen, Lola Folana and others, creating dance sequences and musical

arrangements. He has accompanied Peggy Lee, Debbie Reynolds, Dean Martin, Steve

Lawrence, Don Cherry, Robert Goulet, Joe Williams, and others.