Robert honey et Teddy odes ont fait partie des tokens(labels Gary /date puis des parangons sur starlight circa 80/84

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I worked with Al Browne for more than 25 years, and have some additional and/or different information on "Eddie & the Starlites."       Al Browne gave me the names of the members of the group on "To Make A Long Story Short" as Eddie Jenkins, Bruce Edwards, Charles Miller & Thomas Smith.    "To Make A Long Story Short" was a demo shopped to Sceptor; they liked it so much that they released to demo. (At this point, Al had no other recordings by the group, so he took a recording by a DIFFERENT group and sold it to Scepter  (as by "Eddie & the Starlites") for the record's flip side. Al Browne did not remember the names of any of the group or singers on this recording. (I put this question to Al in about 1973.)     
After "To Make A long Story Short, "Al recorded a dozen or more sides by "Eddie & the Stalites." Besides "To Make A Long Story Short," Al released 1 record by the group on his Aljon label in about 1963, and sold masters to Bim Bam Boom and Vintage; each released 1 record by the group in the early 1970s. A couple of others may have been sold to Vintage, but were never released by the label. (Al sold 78 masters to Vintage; they released just over 1/3 of them.)
   Other than Eddie Jenkings, the other group members on the group's recordings (other than on "To Make A Long Story Short") are really not known. (Any "source" showing names of other members are engaging in nothing more than speculation and are probably wrong.) If I had to describe the composition of this group/these groups (other than Eddie), I would say that they were made up of singers who happened to be available on the date the recordings were made or when they appeared "live" at an Al Browne show/appearance. (It was not unusual for Al to buy "studio time" at the "last minute;" often at a discounted price or on an "off-night" or when the studio was available due to a late cancellation by another performer. Most studios Al used were small outfits in Brooklyn that Al could get cheaply. This "last minute" booking sometimes resulted in some singers not being available and resulted in variances in personnel even with groups whose personnel was otherwise "stable." I recall Al saying that he would often use Donnie Myles and Sonny Benton as fill-ins, and in the 1970s/1980s, Sal Mondrone. (I am not saying that any of them ever were "Starlites," but that possibility does exist.)     
Eddie Jenkins was also a member of the Whippoorwills on the Josie label. It is very possible that other members of the Whippoorwills were, AT TIMES, members of one (or more) of the several “Starlites” groups that Al Browne put together. If they were, they could have been singers who recorded with the group or who appeared at "live" performances by the group.
   We will never know all the "details" regarding the recordings made by groups Al called "Eddie & the Starlites." Al and Eddie are long gone and unfortunately I did not ask Al too many questions about this "group." - and for the few I did ask, there was no documentation and Al's memory was not too good.       Tony D'Ambrosip Brooklyn, NY