[4] The club began its days in the early 1960s as a swinging Greenwich Village discothèque, run by a tough entrepreneur named Trude Heller.

Some of the people that danced on the floor there were Salvador Dalí, George Hamilton and Lynda Bird Johnson.

[7] Two of the house bands there were Barry and the Remains[8] and Benny Gordon and the Soul Brothers.

[9] Some of the headlining acts were Ben E. King, Otis Redding, and Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.

[10] Other acts who have appeared there through the years have been The Loving Spoonful, who played, rushed off to the Ed Sullivan show to perform, and returned, Beastie Boys in their early days,[11] Frankie Paris and the Purple Haze,[12] Funk Steady,[13] Goldie and the Gingerbreads (featuring Genya Ravan),[14] The Scoundrels,[15] Artie Stewart[16] and Marion Taylor and the Reggie Moore Trio.