Ron Edgington, Noel Glenn and Larry Adair

The Delatones (Corpus Christy, TX)

Personnel :

Larry Adair   (Lead Singer, Songwriter, Lead guitar)

Noel Glenn  (Guitar, Singer, Writer)

Ron Edgington  (Lead Guitar, Backup Vocals

Henry Edgington (Drummer)

Discography :

1960 - Little Jeanie / Dream World (TNT 9027)
1960 - Teenagers Love / Ik-Heb-Je-Lief (TNT 9028)

Biography :

By Larry Adair
Noel Glenn and Larry Adair met in the navy in Corpus Christy TX where they were stationed in 1960.  Then They met Ron and Henry Edgington and formed the group The Delatones. They played all around Corpus Christy at different venues for a while, then they went to San Antonio TX to record some original songs at Tanner N Texas (TNT) Recording Company, owned by Bob Tanner, which they produced and arranged themselves.

Then they went back to Corpus Christy and a DJ heard the recording and got the group to open at the memorial aditorium for Fabian and other major artists.  The Delatones played around Corpus Christy trying to promote their songs and not long after that Larry Adair  got transferred to Kodiak Alaska and Noel Glenn got transferred to Florida so basicaly the Delatones broke up.

Come to find out they didn't know that the songs were playing all over Tx and California, Little Jeanie was #1 in Fresno and #3 in Texas, but they weren't there to promote them. When Larry got out of the navy he went to Florida where Noel was and they performed for awhile at the base and other venues and they were going to try to get the group back together again, but Noel found out he had tb and had to be in the hospital for quite awhile. So the Delatones reunion never happened.   

Fabiian & The Delatones with extra musicians.
(L to R) Ron Edgington, Noel Glenn, Sonny Mc Gee, Fabian, James Blackstock, Larry Adair and Douglass..

Larry performed for many years with other groups and by himself, When Noel was well he went on to perform with other groups and Ron & Henry went their own way. But they all have so many fond memories of those times to much to write on one page we could write a book or even make a movie.

Songs :

  
Teenagers Love                     Dream World

   
Ik-Heb-Je-Lief                         Little Jeanie


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The Darcels (Brooklyn, New York)




Personnel :

Frankie Caravella (Lead)

Eddie Pardocchi  (Lead)

Donnie LaRufa (First Tenor)

Joseph Caravella (Bass)

Discography :

Unreleased :
1959 - The Wind
1959 - Wadda Doo Cha Cha




Biography:

In 1959, prior to being in the DelVons, Eddie Pardocchi sang with the Darcels at J.H.S. 214 (Pitkin Avenue and Elderts Lane). This group consisted of Eddie Pardocchi, Donnie LaRuffa, Frankie Caravella, and Joe Caravella. The Darcels recorded two unreleased sides, "The Wind" and "Wadda Doo Cha Cha."  In 1962, John Carbone left the Five Discs & Eddie Pardocchi was brought into the Five Discs as Carbones' replacement.

(L to R) Joseph Caravella, Donnie LaRufa, Eddie Pardocchi & Ronnie Mathis (who replaced Frankie Caravella)

In 1964, original Five Discs Paul Albano and Tony Basile along with Charlie DiBella called it quits, but Joe Barsalona was determined to continue. With Eddie Pardocchi (lead), Joe Barsalona (baritone), and Darcels’ Donnie LaRuffa (first tenor) and Frank Arrione (second tenor) the group re-formed. This foursome then recorded "This Love Of Ours" and "To The Fair" which remained unreleased until 1981 when they came out on the Crystal Ball label as by the Five Discs.

Songs :

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Terry & The Tunisians (North Babylon, NY)
aka  The Tunisions

Personnel :

Michelle ("Terry") Martin (Lead)

Clifford (Cliff) Roberts (First Tenor)

Louis (Lou) Miceli (Second Tenor)

Bruce (Brew) Mineo (Baritone)

Joe (Jo-Jo Base) Ashford (Bass)

Discography :

Terry & The Tunisians
Singles :
1963 - The Street / Tom Tom ( Seville 131)
 Unreleased :
1963 - Please Stop Playing With My Heart

Terry & The Tunisions
Lps :
1963 - Lou Dean Presents Night Train Special (LD 100)
The Time / If You Should Lose A Good Thing

Biography :

The group was started in 1961 and made it's public debut at Lou Dean's "Night Train Dances", weekend dances and rock-and-roll shows which were held in Bayshore NY at the roller-rink, on friday and saturday nights, where in it's first year, was attended by close to 40,000 Long Island youths. Each week, in addition to top recording stars, the night train show introduced and featured many talented local singing groups and bands from the long island area. On January 26th 1964, when the night train audience voted for the first annual "Louie" awards for outstanding performance and popularity at the night train shows, the Tunisions placed first among the four award winners.

   
                                                                                                   Michelle ("Terry") Martin

There were only two records recorded which were of any significance. They were " The Street" and "Tom-Tom", recorded on the Seville record label. Shortly after recording these records, the group appeared on the then wildly popular TV rock program, "The Clay Cole Show", live from Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, to promote their record. Two other songs "The Time" and "If You Should Lose A Good Thing"  appear on the album "Night Train Special" under the name of "Terry & The Tunisions".

Songs :

(updated by Hans-Joachim)  

Terry & The Tunisians

  
The Street                                     Tom Tom

 Terry & The Tunisions

  
If You Should Lose A Good Thing                           The Time

Please Stop Playing With My Heart

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Clockwise from left : Tonny Giannatasio, Victor Eusepi, Sal DiTroia, George Morton and Marty Monaco

The Markeys (1) (Long Island, New York)
aka The Lonely Ones (1)

Personnel :

George "Shadow" Morton (Lead)

Tonny Giannatasio

Victor Eusepi

Marty Monaco

Sal DiTroia

Discography :

The Markeys (1) Featuring Georgie Morton
1958 - Hot Rod / Yakkaty Yak (RCA 47-7256)

The Markeys (1) Featuring George Morton
1958 - A Time To Love / Make a Record, Man (RCA 47-7412)

The Lonely Ones (1)
1959 - I Want My Girl / My Wish (Sir 270 / Baton 270)

Biography :

George Francis Morton was born in Richmond, Virginia on 3 September 1941 and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, where he attended St Thomas Aquinas School. As George entered his teens, where he seemed he was getting in too deep with the Bed-Stuy neighbourhood's notorious street gangs, his parents moved the family out to Long Island- a safer environment, or so they thought. In 1957 George formed a vocal group, The Markeys, with friends Marty Monaco, Tonny Giannatasio, Victor Eusepi and  Sal DiTroia. Marty Monaco's mother had a basic recording studio in her basement in nearby Levittown, where the guys wrote, rehearsed and taped demos of their songs. The owner of a local record store took a liking to the young quintet and helped arrange for them to audition for RCA.

George "Shadow" Morton

Billed as The Markeys featurin Georgie Morton, the group made their recording debut with "Hot Rod", released on RCA in the Summer of 1958 when George was 16. Long Island teenager Ellie Greenwich, behind whom the guys harmonised at a few of local high school hop, issued her first single around the same time, also on RCA. Before the year was over, RCA had released the Markeys' second single, "A Time To Love" and two more of George's songs had been recorded by Sal Mure for United Artists. For the next Record - "I Want My Girl ", for The Sir Label in 1959, again with George on lead vocals - he and his pals changed their name to the Lonely Ones. After graduating from Bethpage High School in 1959, George drifted aimlessly through a succession of short-lived jobs- bouncer, ice cream seller, hairdresser, golf caddie.... George Francis "Shadow" Morton will become an record producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in the 1960s. In particular, he was noted for writing and producing "Remember (Walking in the Sand)", "Leader of the Pack", and other hits for girl group The Shangri-Las.
From "The Shadow Morton Story"

Songs :

The Markeys (1)

  
   A Time To Love                              Make a Record, Man

  
Hot Rod                                         Yakkaty Yak


The Lonely Ones (1)

  
  My Wish                                        I Want My Girl


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(L to R) Dickey Lee, Allen Reynolds, Sam Cole, and David Glenn. 

Dickey Lee & The Collegiates (1) (Whitehaven, Tennessee)

Personnel :

Dickey Lee (Dickie Lipscomb) (Lead Vocal / Guitar)

J.L. Jerden (Vocal / Bass)

David Glenn (Vocal)

Allen Reynolds (Tenor / Guitar)

Bill Talmadge (Vocal)

Selby Barrach (Drums)

Eddie Well (Vocal / Guitar)

Discography :

Dickey Lee & The Collegiates (1)
1957 - Stay True Baby / Dream Boy (Tampa 131)
1957 - Good Lovin' / Memories Never Grow Old  (Sun 280)

Dickey Lee bb The Collegiates (1)
1958 -  Fool, Fool, Fool / Dreamy Nights (Sun 297)

Biography :

Royden Dickey Lee was born on September 21, 1936, in Memphis, Tennessee. He grew up on his family's farm, where their two major crops were cotton and corn. Besides playing baseball, Lee started singing, playing the guitar, and songwriting. He participated in local talent contests and even auditioned for the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, to no avail. In the fall of 1957, he entered Memphis State University on a boxing scholarship.

Incidentally, he was a Golden Gloves' champion. In college, he formed the Collegiates, which included J.L. Jerden, David Glenn, Allen Reynolds, Bill Talmadge, Selby Barrach and Eddie Well . Dickey made his recording debut in 1957 with "Dream boy," a song he'd written, on the tiny Tampa label He was discovered by Memphis deejay Dewey Phillips in 1957, which led to his first record. Dewey Phillips introduced young Dickey to Sam Phillips (no relation), who signed Lee to Sun. Two singles came out in 1957-58, first "Good Lovin'"/ "Memories Never Grow Old" (Sun 280). "Good Lovin'" was a cover of the Clovers hit from 1953.

 The A-side of the second Sun single, "Fool, Fool, Fool" (Sun 297), could create the impression that this was another Clovers cover, but that was not the case. Though credited to Dickey Lee only (his previous two records were credited to Dickey Lee and the Collegiates), "Fool, Fool, Fool"/ "Dreamy Nights" was very much a vocal group record, reminiscent of Dion and the Belmonts. Both Sun singles were commercial flops and his contract was not renewed. While at Sun, Lee had forged a friendship with Jack Clement. When Clement moved to Beaumont, Texas in 1960, Dickey and his friend Allen Reynolds followed him.

In Beaumont they became part of a recording studio crew set up by Clement and his partner Bill Hall. In 1962 Dickey had his first taste of real success when George Jones took his song "She Thinks I Still Care" to the top of the country charts. (When Anne Murray revived the song in 1974 as "He Thinks I Still Care", it was a # 1 all over again.) In the autumn of 1962, Lee had his own hit with "Patches" (produced by Clement and Hall), which went to # 6 on the pop charts, on the Smash label. Written by Barry Mann and Larry Kolber, it was a maudlin song about teenage suicide. The follow-up to this million seller, "I Saw Linda Yesterday" was a much better record and peaked at # 14. Clearly inspired by Dion's "Runaround Sue", it was co-penned by Dickey and Allen Reynolds.

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Songs:

Dickey Lee & The Collegiates (1)

     
Dreamy Nights                    Fool, Fool, Fool                 Dream Boy

     
Memories Never Grow Old                Good Lovin'                  Stay True Baby


Dickey Lee


I Saw Linda Yesterday


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