Charles Rosenay

New Haven, Connecticut resident Charles Rosenay wears many hats. He is an entertainer, MC/DJ, producer, actor, impresario, tour organizer, promoter and haunted house operator. 'As far as I'm concerned, my life began on February 9th, 1964, when The Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). It's actually my first memory in life and nothing was the same after that.' His mother Rose, from the Bronx, was a real New Yorker with a larger-than-life personality. She was very musical and played piano by ear: his father Harry was from Brooklyn, and Charles was born and raised in the Bronx until they moved to New Haven when he was ten. 'They were the greatest, most loving, and most supportive parents on the planet. The radio was always playing in the background and in the car, and we were always singing,' Rosenay recalls. He doesn't have any siblings and he doesn't play any instruments but took accordion lessons and classical guitar growing up: abandoning both. But he always loved to sing. 'Years later, I portrayed Davy Jones in a tribute band, MonkeeMania, and I was spot-on with the tambourine and maracas,' Charles notes, 'I think if I had learned guitar or bass I would have auditioned for 'Beatlemania,' but the Beatles world had different plans for me.' In the late '70's, he heard about a Beatles convention presented by Joe Pope, a pioneer who produced the first Beatles fan convention in America at Boston's Bradford Hotel. Pope also published an amazing Beatles fanzine 'St…