The Octaves (2) (Detroit)

Personnel :

Joe Arcilesi

Dick Applin

Chuck Mills

Dominic Chiaravalli

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Discography :

1958 - Mambo Carolyn / Your Too Young (Val 1001)

Biography :

Joe Arcilesi formed the group in 1954, while they were all attending Cooley High School, in Detroit. The Octaves consisted of Joe Arcilesi, Dick Applin, Chuck Mills, Dominic Chiaravalli & another guy. Most of their were involved with the vocal music classes and select groups, of the music department. They were very interested in the most if the black vocal groups that were singing the Detroit Doo-Wop, Blues and spirituals. Motown, was just starting at the time and they would not welcome a white group, singing the black sound. they were instrumential in introducing that sound as we sang the sock hop's in the Westside of the city.

They were also influenced by the close harmony sound of The Four Freshmen and they would include that close harmony, in their Doo-Wop sound "You're Too Young". In 1958 they recorded the single "Mambo Carolyn" / "Your Too Young" on Val Records. The record was written and produced by the Octaves. They also distributed it. The Octaves had six wonderful years, after they graduated high school, singing throughout the mid-west, and if they only had met the people that knew the record business, they may have gone further.
Joe Arcilesi

Songs :

  
Mambo Carolyn                              Your Too Young

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Richie & The Royals (5) (Philadelphia)


Personnel :

Richie Benatti (Lead)

Rob Shaner (First Tenor)

Al Marrone (Second Tenor)

Norm Shaner (Baritone)

Bob Beato (Bass)

Discography :

Singles :
1961 - And When I'm Near You / Goody Goody (Rello 1)
1962 - Be My Girl / We're Strollin' (Rello 3/Golden Crest 573)

Unreleased :
1961 - Glad You're My Girl (Rello)
1961- Oh What a Nite (acap) (Rello)
1961 - What Chance Have I  (Rello)
1961 - Glad You're My Girl  (Rello)
1961- I Only Want You (acap) (Rello)

Biography :

Richie & the Royals were from South Philly and raised on the same corner as Anthony Maresco, 20th &Moore. Anthony was Anthony & Sophomores, Tony & Dynamics & Twilighters. Richie Benatti adored the older Maresco and tried to copy his style in singing. Richie didn't have the voice that Anthony had but Richie had the better look. The group went to South Philly High and used to sing in the halls and bathrooms of the school, they were heard by one of their teacher's, Steve Toderello. Steve felt they needed a manager and producer so he signed the group and got them into a recording studio. The group's first release was "And When I'm Near You" b/w "Goody Goody"on Steve's Rello label. The group appeared at record hops and the girls screamed for the five good looking guys and the record began to climb the charts in Philly.

Richie & The Royals

The record never got national exposure because Steve's first venture into owning a label  caused him to realize  he wasn't ready for the big time yet. The next record released was this record and getting back to my first line, it was an interesting record mainly because Anthony Maresca recorded this song on the Jalynne label in '60 so Richie felt he had to do thais song. Steve released it in Philly and within two weeks struck a deal with Clark Galehouse to distribute the record nationally on his Golden Crest label.  Another interesting story is the flip side of this record, another Philly record called "We're Strollin'" which is the same song with a change in lyrics as the Philly's Fabulaires "While Walking" and was also recorded by other Philly groups, The Del-Aires and Tony & Raindrops. Al Kelly

Songs :

        
Be My Girl                     And When I'm Near You                  I Only Want You

        
     Goody Goody                        We're Strollin'                    What Chance Have I

      
Oh What a Nite                       I Only Want You                         Glad You're My Girl

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Ray & Lindy (Owensboro, Ky.)

Personnel :

Ray Wilson

Lindy Estes

Discography :

Ray & Lindy
1957 - Oh Let Me Love You / Misery (Rocket 1957)
1957 - Hey Doll Baby / Love Must Be In The Air (Starday 333)
1958 - Little Miss Love / I Give Up (Starday 348)
1959 - Yes, That's Love / Angel Love (UA 171)
1959 - Big Betty / Jimmy's Got A Girl (Atco 6150)

Lindy Estes
1960 - Maria / Where Will I Go (To Forget You) (Fraternity 872   
1963 - Useless / It Could Happen To You (Exclusive 2273)
1963 - I Still Miss Someone / Do Darlin' (Joni 102)

Biography :

Rock and roll / Country Owensboro duet,  Ray (Wilson) and Lindy (Estes) recorded for a number of labels: Rocket, Starday, United Artists and Atco Records. As a duo, they were active between 1957 and 1959 and released five singles.  First out was "Oh Let Me Love You" / "Misery" on Rocket (#1957) in October 1957, followed by "Hey Doll Baby" / "Love Must Be In The Air" on Starday (#333) à month later. In March the following year, and for the same company, they released "Little Miss Love" / "I Give Up" (Starday #348).

Two month later May 1958, the duo had switched to United Artists where they change their musical style by turning to teenager songs with "Angel Love" / "Yes, Thats Love" (#171).  The topside of this disc was performed by Ray & Lindy on American Bandstand on June 8th 1959. Their final joint release was "Big Betty" / "Jimmys Got À Girl" on Atco (#6150) in November 1959. However, Lindy Estes also recorded for Fraternity as a solo act in 1960Ray And Lindy

Songs :

Ray & Lindy

  
Yes, That's Love                                    Angel Love   


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Joey Delmar

Joey Delmar ( bb The Lucky-Tones)  (Camden, New Jersey)

Personnel:

Joey Delmar

The Lucky-Tones

Frank "Lucky" Cardone

George Wdzieczkowski

John Zduniak

Lee Wondo

Joe Bruno

Bob Aceto



Discography :

1962 - I Say A Prayer / I've Got It (Bell-Glade 1001)
1962 - Friendship Seven / Happiness (Britone 1001)

Biography :

Musician-producer-songwriters Frank Bendinelli and Leroy Lovett formed a production company, Ben-Lee Music, that generated tracks that were leased to other labels, as well as sides that were put out on their own small Philadelphia labels, like Benn-X and Sonata. They produced two single by Joey Delmar, both produced in 1962 by B & L Productions (Frank Bendinelli and Lee Leroy Lovett) and one of their earliest, before Patty & The Emblems (1964). Joey Delmar, 19-year-old Woodrow Wilson High School graduate have made his first major stage appearance in the "Teen Spectacular” at the Delaware Valley Gardens in Cherry Hillin in march 1962. 

   
                                                                                                                                                   Joey Delmar 

Since graduation from Wilson in June, 1960, Joey has appeared in many South Jersey clubs and shows and has cut a couple of records, ‘But they were never released" His first record tunes, “l've Got It," and “I Say a Prayer” will be released on Bell-Glade 1001. Joey is managed by Dick Gannon of Laurel Springs and Mary Riley, who was one of the first to spot his talents. In mid-1962, he recorded "Friendship Seven" b/w  "Happiness" released.  Several sources assure that the group which backed Joey would be the "lucky tones" a popular Camden's vocal & instrumental group composed of Frank "Lucky" Cardone, George Wdzieczkowski, John Zduniak, Lee Wondo, Joe Bruno and Bob Aceto.

Songs :

  
Friendship Seven                                      Happiness    


I've Got It

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Stan Vincent

Stan Vincent (Brooklyn, New York)
& The Del-Satins
& The Young Lads (2)

Personnel :

Stan Vincent (Lead)

The Del-Satins

The Young Lads (2)

Discography :

Stan Vincent & The Del-Satins
Single:
1961 - She's So Wonderful / Please Be Mine (Comet 2147)
Unreleased :
1961 - Angel By My Side
1961 - She's Not Around Anymore

Stan Vincent bb The Young Lads (2)
1963 - Hot Fudge Sundaes and Pizza Pies / The World Is Round (Felice 711)

Biography :

Stan Vincent (born Stanley Crochowski, 1944) is an American record producer/arranger best known for the Top Ten hits "I'm Gonna Make You Mine" by Lou Christie and "O-o-h Child" by Five Stairsteps. He is also a composer notably having written "O-o-h Child" and several songs recorded by Connie Francis. Stan Vincent also assisted in the making of the 1980 Double Fantasy album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. A child actor under his birth name of Stanley Crochowski, playing Jimmy on the Chicago-based NBC-TV Saturday morning educational series Watch Mr. Wizard, Stan Vincent began his music industry career as a teenager working as a gofer at the Brooklyn-based offices of Jim Gribble who managed several doo-wop groups including the Mystics and the Passions, sometimes assisting on the recordings on Gribble's clients:.

   
    The Del-Satins                                                                                         Stan Vincent

by 1959 Vincent was himself recording his output including two singles backed by the Del Satins. Vincent's releases were overlooked but a recording he produced for the Del Satins of his composition "Teardrops Follow Me" became a regional success in the summer of 1962 and Vincent was afforded his first major success as the producer of the Earls hit "Remember Then" recorded in 1962 which reached #24 in January 1963. The Same year , The Young Lads  released their first record on Felice Records entitled "Night After Night". and uring the session, the Young Lads backed Stan Vincent on "Hot Fudge Sundaes and Pizza Pies" b/w "The World Is Round". Still in 1963, Stan Vincent became the manager of The Majestic lads and composed "Pledge Of A Fool" and "Don't Go Away (Pretty Little Girl)". Stan Vincent changed the original name by The Barons.

  
Stan Vincent                                                                                       The Young Lads                    

Vincent had several songs recorded by Connie Francis, notably her hit singles "Drownin' My Sorrows" (1963) and "Looking For Love" (1964), the latter being the title song for a cinematic vehicle for Francis - see Looking for Love - in which she sang two other Vincent compositions: "Let's Have a Party" and "When the Clock Strikes Midnight". Francis also recorded the Stan Vincent compositions "Lollipop Lips", "Whatever Happened to Rosemarie" and "Tommy" to serve as the B-sides to her hits "If My Pillow Could Talk" (1962)"Your Other Love" (1963), and "Be Anything (but Be Mine)" (1963). The compositions which Vincent placed with Francis were all co-written with Hank Hunter.

Songs :

Stan Vincent & The Del-Satins

   
She's So Wonderful                                 Please Be Mine

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