NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Neil Sedaka puts it, he's the king of tra-la-las and doo-be-doos. And why not? When Tin Pan Alley ruled the world of pop music, Sedaka was one of the songwriters churning out hits in New York's legendary Brill Building that helped pre-Beatles teenagers go to the hop, fall in love and break up ...

IF YOU GO Who: Neil Sedaka When: 8 p.m. Thursday through Sunday Where: Orleans Showroom Tickets: $44 to $82.50; 365-7075 Keeping up is hard to do with 69-year-old songwriting genius Neil Sedaka. He’s now churning out not only pop hits but symphonies, a children’s album and an upcoming salsa number. The penman of such classics as ...

Singer Connie Francis is being treated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York where she was hospitalized after falling ill earlier this week. Her agent, Mike Church, says the 69-year-old singer had been scheduled to perform Wednesday night with Neil Sedaka at The Capital One Bank Theatre at Westbury. Instead, she was taken to the hospital with dangerously ...