Bruce Bruno

Bruce Bruno bb The Cadillacs (New Rochelle, New York)


Personnel :

Bruce Bruno (Lead)

The Cadillacs

Earl Carrol

Roland Martinez

Curtis Williams

Ray Brewster

Discography :

1961 - Hey Little One / Some Time, Some Place (Roulette 4386)
1962 - Dear Joanne (bb The Cadillacs) / Venus In Blue Jeans (Roulette 4427)

Biography :

Bruce Bruno were a New Rochelle High School Student who live at 101 Storer Avenue. Dion remembered Bruce Bruno as "The Elvis of the neighborhood" and might have helped him get on roulette records (and dion's father is credited with co-writing "Dear Joanne"). Bruce Bruno recorded Dear Joanne with a legendary Black vocal Group, the Cadillacs. Incidentally, the few who bought "Dear Joanne" as a 45 rpm single also bought the original version of "Venus in Blue Jeans" on the B side. Bruce has appeared at the Round Table night club in New York City and at the RKO Proctor theatre in Brooklyn in Bobby Rydell's show.

    
     Bruce Bruno                                                                   The Cadillacs   (1962)                                                    Bruce Bruno

Later he was approached by fellow Roulette act Ronnie Hawkins to sing ballads in Hawkins's Rockabilly act. Bruno joined Hawkins in canada, and when Hawkins's group quit, Bruno left with them. As the Levon Helm Sextet or Levon and the Hawks, they gigged in Canada and New York, But Bruno left after they were fire from the Peppermint Lounge. The Hawks went on to become the band, while Bruno replace Eddie Brigati in the Rascals for a short time. He became an instructor at New Rochelle High School in New York.

Songs :

Bruce Bruno bb The Cadillacs


Dear Joanne

Bruce Bruno

  
Venus In Blue Jeans                                 Hey Little One  

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