• Nick & The Nacks

    Written by dion1 in *NACKS (NICK & THE) on 4 December 2018 à 02:13

    Nick & The Nacks  

    Nick & The Nacks (Long Island, New York) 

     

    Personnel :

    Nick Sudano (Lead)

    Bill Hennessey (First Tenor)

    Jack Connolly (Second Tenor)

    Dennis Regan (Baritone)

    Roy Hitcznko (Bass)

     

    Discography :

    Nick & The Nacks
    1962 - The Night / That Old Black Magic (Barry 108)

    Nickie & The Nacks
    1977 - Linda / The ABC's Of Love (Crystal Ball 103)

    Lps:

    1963 - Night Train Special (Private Press 100?)
    Linda

    Nick & The Nacks

    1975 - The Best Of Acapella (Vol 3) (Relic LP 103)
    Love Is A Many Splendid Thing (acapella) / A lovely Way To Spend An Evening (acapella)

    1975 - The Best Of Acapella (Vol 4) (Relic LP 104)
    White Cliffs Of Dover (acapella)

    1975 - The Best Of Acapella (Vol 5) (Relic LP 105)
    Good Good-Bye (acapella)

     

    Biography :

    Wantagh, Long Island group started in 1961 as Nicky & The Chord-Lords; Nick Sudano (Lead), Phil De Angelo (1st Tenor), Frank Fink(2nd Tenor), Johnny Conte (Baritone) and Bruce Burger(Bass). They have soon a local popularity and soon they decided to try for a professional career with Ron Schubert as manager.

    Nick & The Nacks
    Left to right. Bill Hennessy, Roy Hitcznko, Nicholas Sudano, Dennis Regan, Jack Connelly.

    In 1964 Nick Sudano composed "The Night", The Chord-Lords soon recorded along with an arrangement of the classic "The Old Black Magic" as B side this demo was given to some companies but in this time by internal conflicts the group broke up almost Sudano formed yet another group Nick & The Nacks.  When the group manager know that the demo of the Chord-Lords soon were released in the Old Town subsidiary label Barry Records he ask this be credited to Nick & The Nacks.

    Nick & The Nacks

    The real first release of the group were with the inclusion on WGLI DJ Lou Dean's "Night Train Special" LP of one side they have recorded as a demo "Linda". (with_ABC's Of Love as B side) this have to Mark Russo as bassman. Finally in the mid-60's the group providing 7-8 acappella sides for the Eddie Grier’s "Best Of Acappella" Lp's.




    Songs :
    (updated by Hans-Joachim) 


      
            The Night                                 That Old Black Magic

      
                          Linda                         A lovely Way To Spend An Evening

      
    Love Is A Many Splendored Thing               White Cliffs Of Dover       

     

     



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    1
    krobigraubart
    Monday 10th December 2018 at 19:29

    Love Is A Many Splendored Thing

    White Cliffs Of Dover

    The ABC's Of Love

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    Gail Carlucci
    Wednesday 9th September 2020 at 00:51
    Thanks for putting this out there and for sharing this. Roy was my brother it is so nice to see this and hear these songs.
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    Tony D'Ambrosio
    Sunday 27th December 2020 at 03:07

    For some time, collectors have questioned whether Nick Sudano's Long Island, NY group had any connection to the group on the Relic "Best Of Acappella" LPs and, if so, just what that connection was.    The question arose because of the following statement in the liner notes of Best Of Acappella Vol. 4:    "Nicky & the Naks are a well known group that go under another name. Although we have had many requests for information concerning the group we must keep their identity a secret."   Donn Fileti (one of Relic' owners) was recently asked if the "Relic" group had any connection to the Long Island (NY) group. Donn said: "I don’t think so. I’ve been asked that in the past but no one gave me an answer I could safely cite."   This same question was also recently posed to Wayne Stierle who produced the LP for Relic. Wayne said: "I didn't know who Nicky And The Knacks were, but Eddie felt they sounded like a "known" group so he wrote that crazy paragraph you're referring to.

    Eddie never said what "known group" he was talking about because he was just trying to create "interest" to possibly sell more albums."       It is also noted that Disco-File does not show any connection between the Long Island (NY) group and the Relic group.



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    Tony D'Ambrosio
    Tuesday 21st September 2021 at 16:49

    After a number of unsuccessful attempts, I recently was able to get in touch with Nick Sudano.   Nick advise that it was his group on the Relic "Best Of Acappella" LPs. He further mentioned that he had no idea why Relic spelled their name differently or why the statement, about them being a well known group whose name could not be revealed, was on the Relic LP.

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