Word: gottlieb
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Another Name. At 42, Joey has been waiting a long time to get to the center of things. Born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb, he grew up in Philadelphia. "My folks were poor," he remembers, "but I didn't mind poverty. They always played games. For instance, when I'd come home, they had moved." He quit high school, formed the Bishop Brothers Trio with two pals named Reisman and Spector (Bishop was the name of another friend who promised to drive them to auditions). Through the late '30s, they played the Eastern burlesque circuit...