Cook E. Jarr lorded over the lounges of Las Vegas for decades. But the woman who would become his wife said even the clubs on the Strip could not contain his energy.
“He played the Oasis at the Dunes, and used to take his cordless mic and go out into the Strip, and be singing to people who were stopped at the corner. The speakers were set up so you could hear him everywhere,” Jarr’s widow, Stacy Pettine, said Wednesday morning. “They’d have their windows down, waiting for the light to change, and he’d be singing.”
When finished on the Strip, Jarr would hustle back to the casino.
”He’d sing to women as they were walking to the bathroom,” Pettine said. “He would stand and sing on the bars. He was just crazy.”
