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# One for the Old-Timers
- URL: https://bklyner.com/one-for-the-old-timers-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2008-07-02T20:17:48.000Z
- Updated: 2017-03-24T21:29:38.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: jerry abramowitz, olga kraus, palm beach home, #API-Imported

This is awesome. From the Daily News: [Palm Beach Home for Adults stages ‘Senior Idol’ competition](http://www.nydailynews.com/ny%5Flocal/brooklyn/2008/06/30/2008-06-30%5Fpalm%5Fbeach%5Fhome%5Ffor%5Fadults%5Fstages%5Fsenior.html?ref=bklyner.com).

> When the six finalists were done, Olga Kraus, 90, an operatic soprano and winner of last year’s competition, entertained residents with “The Man I Love.”

> Like others at the home, Kraus said she had no professional experience.

> “I did try out once for the Ted Mack Amateur Hour,” she said, “but I just couldn’t get the quiver out of my voice.”

Thank goodness no one tried any Jay-Z, lest someone needs to call the doctor… and no, I’m not talking about Dre.

Oh, and congratulations to the winner, Jerry Abramowitz, 79, a retired hospital worker, who “wowed the audience, and especially his wife, Estelle, with ‘Mona Lisa.'”