The shows featured comedy acts including George Gobel, Frank Gorshin, Jack Carter, Jackie Vernon, Henny Youngman, Joey Bishop, Red Buttons, Godfrey Cambridge, Shecky Greene, Milton Berle, Jessel, and The Roy Radin Orchestra.
[5] Radin expanded his shows to concentrate not only on comedy revues but also musical acts largely consisting of fading 1950s and 1960s performers.
Musical performers included The Ink Spots, The Drifters, Eddie Fisher, The Ronettes, Dick Haymes, Barbara McNair, Tiny Tim, The Serendipity Singers, The Shirelles, The Marvelettes and Danny & the Juniors.
In April 1980, actress Melonie Haller claimed that she had been beaten and raped during a party hosted by Radin at his Southampton, New York home, and that the events had been filmed.
[8] Businessman Robert McKeage IV, also in attendance at the party, plead guilty to assaulting Haller and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
[13] His remains were found a few weeks later by a beekeeper and a forest ranger near Gorman, California, about 65 miles (105 km) north of Los Angeles.
[14] Several years later, contract killer William Mentzer was among four people sentenced for shooting Radin multiple times in the head and using dynamite to make identification by authorities more challenging.
As a result, the case was dubbed “The Cotton Club Murder.” Film producer Robert Evans was a person of interest in the Radin investigation.