Sonny Dee / Sal Pippa

Sonny Dee (Bronx New York)
(bb The Camerons (1))
(bb The Regents)


Personnel :

Sonny Dee (Salvatore Pippa, Jr.)

The Camerons (1)
The Regents

Songs :

Sonny Dee (bb The Camerons (1))
Unreleased :
1960 - Lonely Teenager (Cousins)
1960 - Cheryl (Cousins)

Sonny Dee
Unreleased :
1960 - I Want You To Be My Girl (Cousins)

Sonny Dee (bb The Regents)
1961 - Here i stand / I'm Not The One For You (Kapp 421)

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Biography :

A native of the Bronx in New York City. Salvatore Pippa, Jr. began his recording Career in 1960. June 5, 1960 at Duane Studio, New York City, Lou Cicchetti recorde the Camerons (1) Know first as the Jiveliers. During the same session  Salvatore Pippa, Jr. then billed as "Sonny dee", cut with the Camerons an unreleased Demo of "Lonely Teenager", the same song that he later sold to Dion for an estimated $ 50.00 (and which became Dion's first solo hit). Flip of this demo was an alternate version of "Cheryl", also by Pippa & The Camerons…

 
The Camerons (1)  with Al Reno (Right)                                                                      The Regents

In 1961, Lou Cicchetti recorded Sonny Dee backing by some members of the Regents with Al Reno. The songwriters were Salvatore Pippa, Jr. (Sonny Dee), Silvio Faraci (also Sylvio Faraci, who used the pseudonym Tony Rotoli) & Alfred DiPaolo (Al Reno, Lead singer of the Selections) who used the pseudonym Al Ruggiero.  Lou Cicchetti offert aux masters to Kapp Records and "Here i stand" b/w "I'm Not The One For You" was the Sonny's only release. During the 60's, Sal was also represented on the charts as written of many artists and recorded a LP in 1988 : "What Kind Of World Is This?".

Songs :

Sonny Dee



Sonny Dee (bb the Regents)

  
          Here i stand                            I'm Not The One For You

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