Former Location –
The Singer Bowl was built in 1964 by the Singer Sewing Machine Company. It was an open-air stadium, which held 15,000 – 18,000 people and was used for the 1964 World’s Fair. It later hosted various Olympic trials and concerts over the years, including a 1968 concert headlined by The Doors with The Who as the opening act. Jimi Hendrix also performed there in August 1968.
The stadium was renovated in 1977 and reopened in 1978 as two seperate venues, The Louis Armstrong Stadium, and the adjacent Grandstand which was mainly the original stadium. Both stadiums are part of the present-day USTA National Tennis Center.
Notable Artists That Performed At The Singer Bowl Include:
8/26/1973 – Three Dog Night
8/19/1973 – Grand Funk Railroad
8/17/1973 – Uriah Heep
7/22/1973 – The J. Geils Band
7/12/1973 – The Edgar Winter Group
8/31/1969 – James Brown
8/30/1969 – Led Zeppelin
8/9/1969 – Creedence Clearwater Revival
8/2/1969 – The Moody Blues
7/13/1969 – Jeff Beck Group
8/30/1968 – The Rascals
8/23/1968 – Big Brother & the Holding Company
8/23/1968 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
8/2/1968 – The Doors
8/2/1968 – The Who
The Singer Bowl
Flushing Meadow – Corona Park
Flushing, NY 11368
I was there. It was my first concert. I still remember the show. It was great.
I was at that Doors concert …age 13….and I’ll never forget the whole feeling of it. I was my first rock concert, and extremely intense…AWESOME!
The Doors Concert at The Singer Bowl
I remember the show very well.
The Who opened and they did their thing, playing and singing very well.
I don’t remember them destroying their equipment, but they may have.
I do remember at the end of The Doors set. Jim was outrageous. I think He tried to crawl into the bass drum.
But what I’m sure of is, He had complete control of the crowd. His antics were intense, and as the police attempted to
get him off the stage The crowd went wild. Yelling and Throwing things at the Stage.
It was as close to a peaceful riot as anything, an example of a live oxymoron if ever there was one.
I also saw them at The Fillmore East but don’t recall anything like The Singer Bowl show.
Larry Tambini
Guitarist in The Morrison Joplin Review , A Doors/Joplin Tribute Band, alive and well, in the Tampa Bay Area.
I have an audience recording of it if you’d like a cdr
Please send me a copy