About
About Scott Record, singing comedy impressionist
Scott Record is an American singing comedy impressionist and variety entertainer: a classic, old-school act that carries a full evening on its own with music, more than a hundred celebrity voices, comedy and storytelling.
He spent three years as Rodney Dangerfield's opening act, has opened for Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Ann-Margret and Perry Como, headlined 18 Royal Caribbean maiden voyages, and performed every voice in the Academy Award–winning short Sundae in New York. Today Scott Record performs for cruise lines, corporate events, casinos, theaters, golf tournaments and senior living communities.
New England
Early life: magician, tap dancer and Boston Pops percussionist
Scott Record grew up in New England, training in music, tap dancing, magic, acting and sports. Between schoolwork he put in hours at his family's diner, which he credits with doing more for his character work than any class. His first paid performance was as a magician.
As a young performer Scott acted with regional theater companies and with the Boston Children's Theater. As a percussionist he played in the Boston Pops Orchestra during Arthur Fiedler's final year as conductor, and with jazz, rock and show bands across New England.
New York, 1978
Rodney Dangerfield's opening act for three years
Scott Record moved to New York City in 1978 and took a job as a bouncer and bartender at a disco directly across the street from Dangerfield's, the comedy club Rodney Dangerfield named after himself. Night after night he watched the headliners' names change on its marquee.
One Monday night Scott tried out on the Dangerfield's stage himself. Rodney Dangerfield liked him immediately and took him on the road, and Scott Record spent the next three years as Rodney Dangerfield's opening act.
The headliner years
Opening for Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Ann-Margret and Perry Como
Scott Record opened for Ann-Margret for ten years, Perry Como for five years, Bob Hope twelve times and Frank Sinatra five times. He has also shared stages with Tony Bennett, Tom Jones, Julio Iglesias, Celine Dion, Cher, Huey Lewis and the News, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Clint Black and The Gatlin Brothers, and appeared on The Merv Griffin Show.
As a headliner Scott has played the Mohegan Sun Casino Resort in Connecticut, the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, California, and the Improv in Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas. He performs in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Atlantic City, where Atlantic City Magazine named him Best Variety Act of the Year.
At sea
Royal Caribbean headliner: 18 maiden voyages
Scott Record has headlined 18 Royal Caribbean maiden voyages, including Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, as well as the inaugural runs of Liberty of the Seas and Freedom of the Seas.
A cruise ship theater is a demanding room: a new audience every week, every age in the same seats, and one act expected to carry a whole evening. Scott's show of music, impressions, comedy and storytelling was built for exactly that room and varied crowd.
Screen & voice
Voice actor: Sundae in New York and Disney's Tarzan
Scott Record performed every character voice in Sundae in New York, the claymation short that won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, in which New York mayor Ed Koch appears as a clay caricature. Scott also supplied Tarzan's yell for Disney's animated feature Tarzan.
Scott's range of character voices keeps him in demand for commercial voice-over, voicing national campaigns for a wide range of products.
On record
Record On CD and the skipping-record “New York, New York”
Scott Record's first album, Record On CD, lets him sing some of his favorite songs straight, without the comedy. It also keeps a few pieces from the live act, including his signature number: “New York, New York,” sung as though the record were skipping.
God Bless the Child
Track 1 of Record On CD, sung straight. The first 50 seconds.
Theme from New York, New York
Track 3 of Record On CD.
On the course
Golf entertainer: Pro-Am winner and tournament gala headliner
Scott Record is a golf entertainer and a competitive amateur. He plays Pro-Am events on the PGA, LPGA, USGA and Seniors tours, and won the Bay Hill Classic Pro-Am playing alongside Tiger Woods.
Tournament organizers book Scott to produce the entertainment, perform it, play in the field, or all three. He produced, performed and played at the AT&T Pebble Beach Invitational for nine years, and has headlined at the Phoenix Open, The Players Championship and the Bay Hill Classic. He appeared with Harry Connick Jr. at the Kraft Nabisco LPGA Championship gala, and performed his full show for Kraft Nabisco's 35th anniversary at the Palm Springs Air Museum, to four standing ovations.
Corporate, senior living & charity
Corporate events, senior living communities and charity benefits
Scott Record is a corporate event entertainer booked again and again by the same companies, among them IBM, AT&T, Ford, Chrysler, GE, Pfizer, Motorola, American Airlines, KPMG, Lucent, Warner Lambert, Kraft Nabisco, Sun Microsystems, Isuzu, Sunoco and Philip Morris. He has served as master of ceremonies for the annual ESPY awards dinner.
Scott also performs for retirement, assisted living and independent living communities. The songs and voices in his act are the ones residents grew up with, from Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin to Elvis Presley and Louis Armstrong, and the show runs fully self-contained on backing tracks, with nothing required from the venue. In 2017 he headlined the Boomer Spectacular at the Boca Black Box Center for the Arts in Boca Raton, Florida, with a live seven-piece band.
For charity, Scott Record has played fundraising golf tournaments including the Bob Hope Desert Classic, and co-headlined with Norm Crosby at ACT for MS, a benefit that raised more than a million dollars for people living with multiple sclerosis.
One man, a full evening.
Music, impressions, comedy and storytelling, for every age in the room.