Sunny & The Horizons (1) (Long Island / Queens, New York)
Personnel :
Antony John Angotti "Sunny" (Lead)
Kevin Moriarty (Second Tenor)
Jimmy LoMonoco (Bass)
Louie Vignola (First Tenor)
Eugene Sannutep (Baritone)
Discography :
Single: 1962 - Nature Creations / Because They Tell Me (Luxor 1015)
Demo : 1962 - You're Love Is My Love
Biography :
Sonny & the Horizons came from Long Island and Queens New York. the Group was formed in the early 1960’s and consisted of; Antony John Angotti "Sunny », Kevin Moriarty, Jimmy LoMonoco, Louie Vignola &Eugene Sannutep
Sunny & the Horizons with the Socialites at Alan Fredericks Show in 1962
The group signing a recording contract with Luxor record owned by Wally Zober for recording four songs on the label.They recorded one record “Natures Creation”, and “Because They Told Me”. They also recorded a demo record called. "You're Love Is My Love”, which was written by Flo Zigari. The group was managed by Ronnie Shubert and Al Giroux.
ISunny & The Horizons performed on many venues on Long Island. They also performed at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, with famous disk jockey “Cousin Bruce Morrow’s” Rock and Roll show. They spent summers entertaining at many vacation resorts in the Catskills region in upstate New York. The group was together for about 5 years.
Lead singer Anthony went on to perform with a band called “No Deposit No Return” and Kevin went on to sing “Barbershop Harmony”.
Lil' June & The January's 1959 - Oh What A Feeling / Oh My Love (Profile 4009)
Little June & his Januarys 1963 - Hello / Burgers, Fries & Shakes (Salem 188)
Biography :
Vocal group from Chicago. They were 16-17 years old and lived on the west side and area they called K-town. The group formed in 1957 and calls himself the Wonderliers. They practicing on their high school and by the local streets. A deal to record with Profile records, subsidiary of Chief Records, came about from a TV show They won. Sy Richardson , American film and television actor since 1977, was part of the group and wrote "Oh What A Feeling". They changed the Wonderliers to Lil June and the January's in 1959 and recorded "Oh What A Feeling" b/w "Oh My Love " for the label.
In 1960, several members of the group are called to military service and the group broke up. Richardson served two years on active duty with the United States Navy. in early 1963, After returning from the army, Sy Richardson wrote "Burgers, Fries & Shakes", a song about MacDonalds when he see this restaurant selling 15 cent burgers ten cent for fries. The same year, the group is reformed and recorded "Hello" b/w "Burgers, Fries & Shakes" for Salem. Sy Richardson & Claude "Little June" Johnson formed their own recording company called Trans World Sound were they recorded the Mandells with Claude "Little June" Johnson .
The Swallows (2) (Los Angeles) aka The Guides, aka The Senders, aka The Uptones
Personnel :
Carlton Beck (Lead Tenor)
Harry Binns (Tenor)
Richard Betts (Baritone)
Jackie Eugene Ware
Raymond Washington
Discography :
The Swallows (2) 1959 - You Must Try / How Long Must A Fool Go On (Guyden 2023)
The Guides 1959 - You Must Try / How Long Must A Fool Go On (Guyden 2023)
The Senders 1959 - I Dream Of You / The Ballad Of Stagger Lee (Kent 320) 1959 - One More Kiss / Everybody Needs To Know (Kent 324) 1961 - Pretty Little Pretty / Spinning (Entra 711)
The Uptones (1) 1962 - No More/ I'll Be There (Lute 6225) 1962 - Be Mine / Dreamin' (Lute 6229) 1963 - Wear My Ring / Dreaming (Magnum 714)
Carlton Beck bb The Hollywood Saxons 1962 - The Girl I Left Behind / You'll Be Coming Home Soon (Penney 1306 /Troy 100)
Biography :
In 1959, Lead singer, Carlton Beck, backed by Richard Botts, Jackie Eugene Ware and Raymond Washington recorded "You Must Try" b/w "How Long Must A Fool Go On" as The Swallows on Guyden #32023. There was a legal issue challenging Guyden's use of the name "The Swallows," so Guyden changed the group's name to "The Guides" and pressed new copies with the change. The same year, they changed their name to The Senders.
Produced by George Motola, he Brought to the Kent label who at that time was working for the Bihari Brothers. The Senders epitomised the southern California vocal group sound of the later 1950s and early 1960s with the ethereal "I Dream Of You Night After Night" (Kent 320) from 1959. It was their first of two singles on Kent that year — they also had 1961 releases on Entra. Probably with some personnel changes (Richard Betts), the group later recorded as the Uptones on Lute and Magnum in 1962-63.
The Hollywood Saxons
The group's lead singer, Carlton Beck, also had a rare vocal group record on Motola’s Troy label under his own name in 1962 backed by Stan Beverly, Charles Taggart, and Maudice Giles of the Hollywood Saxons. Carlton Beck was a member of the Hollywood Saxons (who recorded on Elf, Entra, Swingin’ and Twentieth Century in the 1960s) and its evolving groups in the 1970s — the Professionals on Action Pac and Speed Limit on Watts.
1960 - L to R : Rene Herrera, Rene Ornelas, Juan Garza Gongora and Juan Orfila
The Quarter Notes (1) (Laredo, Texas)
Personnel :
Juan Garza Gongora
Juan Orfila
Rene Herrera
Rene Ornelas
Discography :
1957 - Loneliness / Come De Night (DeLuxe 6116/king 5028) 1957 - My Fantasy / Ten Minutes To Midnight (DeLuxe 6129) 1957 - Like You Bug Me / Please Come Home (Dot 15685) 1957 - Who Am I / Teen Age Blues (Fox 2)
Biography :
The Quarter Notes is composed with two Renes and two Juans : Rene Ornelas, Rene Herrera , Juan Garza Gongora, Juan Orfila. This group of versatile young men began singing together when they were high school students in Laredo, Texas, their hometown. It was there, encouraged by their priest, the Rev. Father george Gloekner, rector of Blessed Sacrament Church, that they began the slow climb up the ladder-of-success.
From top : Juan Garza Gongora, Rene Herrera, Juan Orfila and Rene Ornelas
In 1956, the group won the Arthur Godfrey Talent Contest and began a national tour of theaters and clubs. Their complete versatility is recognized in the way they present "Rock and Roll." "Latin numbers," and "Old Favorites" . They landed a record deal with both Deluxe, Dot & Fox Records therefore reached a broader audience in english and spanish of hopeless romantics.
They have written many of their own numbers, quite a few of which are sure to become hits. One of their compositions won for them, the All Army Recording contest at Fort Carson, in 1958. The Quarter notes entered the Army under the "Buddy System" in 1958.
1962 - L to R : Jack O'Toole (Manager), Juan Orfila, Rene Herrera, Tito Sanchez, Rene Ornelas and Erich Gagel .
They took their basic training and on-the-job training at Fort Carson, Colo. The Group making a thirteen week series of tape recordings for the Armed forces Network, Europe. The Quarter Notes, Juan Garza-Gongora, Rene Herera, Johnny Orfila, and Rene Ornelas have received numerous awards and have traveled all over the world.
In 1962, Tito Sanchez replaced Juan Garza Gongora. The group split up in 1962 but the two Renes stayed together and continued to record and perform. Rene Ornelas and Rene Herrera later became Rene & Rene with two international hits, "Angelito" (1964), "Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero" (1968).
Songs :
Who Am I Loneliness Come De Night
My Fantasy Ten Minutes To Midnight Like You Bug Me
(Sonny, Darryl, Charlie Weils) According to notes from "Rare 1950's Boston Doo Wop" this unknown group backed Tommy Frederick on his Coral single in 1958 on "Sundown" and ‘Where’d Ja Go"
Discography :
Tommy Frederick & Group 1958 - Sundown / ‘Where’d Ja Go (Coral 62170)
Larry Adair (Lead Singer, Songwriter, Lead guitar)
Noel Glenn (Guitar, Singer, Writer)
Ron Edgington (Lead Guitar, Backup Vocals
Henry Edgington (Drummer)
Discography :
1960 - Little Jeanie / Dream World (TNT 9027) 1960 - Teenagers Love / Ik-Heb-Je-Lief (TNT 9028)
Biography :
By Larry Adair Noel Glenn and Larry Adair met in the navy in Corpus Christy TX where they were stationed in 1960. Then They met Ron and Henry Edgington and formed the group The Delatones. They played all around Corpus Christy at different venues for a while, then they went to San Antonio TX to record some original songs at Tanner N Texas (TNT) Recording Company, owned by Bob Tanner, which they produced and arranged themselves.
Then they went back to Corpus Christy and a DJ heard the recording and got the group to open at the memorial aditorium for Fabian and other major artists. The Delatones played around Corpus Christy trying to promote their songs and not long after that Larry Adair got transferred to Kodiak Alaska and Noel Glenn got transferred to Florida so basicaly the Delatones broke up.
Come to find out they didn't know that the songs were playing all over Tx and California, Little Jeanie was #1 in Fresno and #3 in Texas, but they weren't there to promote them. When Larry got out of the navy he went to Florida where Noel was and they performed for awhile at the base and other venues and they were going to try to get the group back together again, but Noel found out he had tb and had to be in the hospital for quite awhile. So the Delatones reunion never happened.
Fabiian & The Delatones with extra musicians. (L to R) Ron Edgington, Noel Glenn, Sonny Mc Gee, Fabian, James Blackstock, Larry Adair and Douglass..
Larry performed for many years with other groups and by himself, When Noel was well he went on to perform with other groups and Ron & Henry went their own way. But they all have so many fond memories of those times to much to write on one page we could write a book or even make a movie.
Unreleased : 1959 - The Wind 1959 - Wadda Doo Cha Cha
Biography:
In 1959, prior to being in the DelVons, Eddie Pardocchi sang with the Darcels at J.H.S. 214 (Pitkin Avenue and Elderts Lane). This group consisted of Eddie Pardocchi, Donnie LaRuffa, Frankie Caravella, and Joe Caravella. The Darcels recorded two unreleased sides, "The Wind" and "Wadda Doo Cha Cha." In 1962, John Carbone left the Five Discs & Eddie Pardocchi was brought into the Five Discs as Carbones' replacement.
(L to R) Joseph Caravella, Donnie LaRufa, Eddie Pardocchi & Ronnie Mathis (who replaced Frankie Caravella)
In 1964, original Five Discs Paul Albano and Tony Basile along with Charlie DiBella called it quits, but Joe Barsalona was determined to continue. With Eddie Pardocchi (lead), Joe Barsalona (baritone), and Darcels’ Donnie LaRuffa (first tenor) and Frank Arrione (second tenor) the group re-formed. This foursome then recorded "This Love Of Ours" and "To The Fair" which remained unreleased until 1981 when they came out on the Crystal Ball label as by the Five Discs.
Terry & The Tunisians (North Babylon, NY) aka The Tunisions
Personnel :
Michelle ("Terry") Martin (Lead)
Clifford (Cliff) Roberts (First Tenor)
Louis (Lou) Miceli (Second Tenor)
Bruce (Brew) Mineo (Baritone)
Joe (Jo-Jo Base) Ashford (Bass)
Discography :
Terry & The Tunisians Singles : 1963 - The Street / Tom Tom ( Seville 131) Unreleased : 1963 - Please Stop Playing With My Heart
Terry & The Tunisions Lps : 1963 - Lou Dean Presents Night Train Special (LD 100) The Time / If You Should Lose A Good Thing
Biography :
The group was started in 1961 and made it's public debut at Lou Dean's "Night Train Dances", weekend dances and rock-and-roll shows which were held in Bayshore NY at the roller-rink, on friday and saturday nights, where in it's first year, was attended by close to 40,000 Long Island youths. Each week, in addition to top recording stars, the night train show introduced and featured many talented local singing groups and bands from the long island area. On January 26th 1964, when the night train audience voted for the first annual "Louie" awards for outstanding performance and popularity at the night train shows, the Tunisions placed first among the four award winners.
Michelle ("Terry") Martin
There were only two records recorded which were of any significance. They were " The Street" and "Tom-Tom", recorded on the Seville record label. Shortly after recording these records, the group appeared on the then wildly popular TV rock program, "The Clay Cole Show", live from Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, to promote their record. Two other songs "The Time" and "If You Should Lose A Good Thing" appear on the album "Night Train Special" under the name of "Terry & The Tunisions".
Clockwise from left : Tonny Giannatasio, Victor Eusepi, Sal DiTroia, George Morton and Marty Monaco
The Markeys (1) (Long Island, New York) aka The Lonely Ones (1)
Personnel :
George "Shadow" Morton (Lead)
Tonny Giannatasio
Victor Eusepi
Marty Monaco
Sal DiTroia
Discography :
The Markeys (1) Featuring Georgie Morton 1958 - Hot Rod / Yakkaty Yak (RCA 47-7256)
The Markeys (1) Featuring George Morton 1958 - A Time To Love / Make a Record, Man (RCA 47-7412)
The Lonely Ones (1) 1959 - I Want My Girl / My Wish (Sir 270 / Baton 270)
Biography :
George Francis Morton was born in Richmond, Virginia on 3 September 1941 and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, where he attended St Thomas Aquinas School. As George entered his teens, where he seemed he was getting in too deep with the Bed-Stuy neighbourhood's notorious street gangs, his parents moved the family out to Long Island- a safer environment, or so they thought. In 1957 George formed a vocal group, The Markeys, with friends Marty Monaco, Tonny Giannatasio, Victor Eusepi and Sal DiTroia. Marty Monaco's mother had a basic recording studio in her basement in nearby Levittown, where the guys wrote, rehearsed and taped demos of their songs. The owner of a local record store took a liking to the young quintet and helped arrange for them to audition for RCA.
George "Shadow" Morton
Billed as The Markeys featurin Georgie Morton, the group made their recording debut with "Hot Rod", released on RCA in the Summer of 1958 when George was 16. Long Island teenager Ellie Greenwich, behind whom the guys harmonised at a few of local high school hop, issued her first single around the same time, also on RCA. Before the year was over, RCA had released the Markeys' second single, "A Time To Love" and two more of George's songs had been recorded by Sal Mure for United Artists. For the next Record - "I Want My Girl ", for The Sir Label in 1959, again with George on lead vocals - he and his pals changed their name to the Lonely Ones. After graduating from Bethpage High School in 1959, George drifted aimlessly through a succession of short-lived jobs- bouncer, ice cream seller, hairdresser, golf caddie.... George Francis "Shadow" Morton will become an record producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in the 1960s. In particular, he was noted for writing and producing "Remember (Walking in the Sand)", "Leader of the Pack", and other hits for girl group The Shangri-Las. From "The Shadow Morton Story"
(L to R) Dickey Lee, Allen Reynolds, Sam Cole, and David Glenn.
Dickey Lee & The Collegiates (1) (Whitehaven, Tennessee)
Personnel :
Dickey Lee (Dickie Lipscomb) (Lead Vocal / Guitar)
J.L. Jerden (Vocal / Bass)
David Glenn (Vocal)
Allen Reynolds (Tenor / Guitar)
Bill Talmadge (Vocal)
Selby Barrach (Drums)
Eddie Well (Vocal / Guitar)
Discography :
Dickey Lee & The Collegiates (1) 1957 - Stay True Baby / Dream Boy (Tampa 131) 1957 - Good Lovin' / Memories Never Grow Old (Sun 280)
Dickey Lee bb The Collegiates (1) 1958 - Fool, Fool, Fool / Dreamy Nights (Sun 297)
Biography :
Royden Dickey Lee was born on September 21, 1936, in Memphis, Tennessee. He grew up on his family's farm, where their two major crops were cotton and corn. Besides playing baseball, Lee started singing, playing the guitar, and songwriting. He participated in local talent contests and even auditioned for the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, to no avail. In the fall of 1957, he entered Memphis State University on a boxing scholarship.
Incidentally, he was a Golden Gloves' champion. In college, he formed the Collegiates, which included J.L. Jerden, David Glenn, Allen Reynolds, Bill Talmadge, Selby Barrach and Eddie Well . Dickey made his recording debut in 1957 with "Dream boy," a song he'd written, on the tiny Tampa label He was discovered by Memphis deejay Dewey Phillips in 1957, which led to his first record. Dewey Phillips introduced young Dickey to Sam Phillips (no relation), who signed Lee to Sun. Two singles came out in 1957-58, first "Good Lovin'"/ "Memories Never Grow Old" (Sun 280). "Good Lovin'" was a cover of the Clovers hit from 1953.
The A-side of the second Sun single, "Fool, Fool, Fool" (Sun 297), could create the impression that this was another Clovers cover, but that was not the case. Though credited to Dickey Lee only (his previous two records were credited to Dickey Lee and the Collegiates), "Fool, Fool, Fool"/ "Dreamy Nights" was very much a vocal group record, reminiscent of Dion and the Belmonts. Both Sun singles were commercial flops and his contract was not renewed. While at Sun, Lee had forged a friendship with Jack Clement. When Clement moved to Beaumont, Texas in 1960, Dickey and his friend Allen Reynolds followed him.
In Beaumont they became part of a recording studio crew set up by Clement and his partner Bill Hall. In 1962 Dickey had his first taste of real success when George Jones took his song "She Thinks I Still Care" to the top of the country charts. (When Anne Murray revived the song in 1974 as "He Thinks I Still Care", it was a # 1 all over again.) In the autumn of 1962, Lee had his own hit with "Patches" (produced by Clement and Hall), which went to # 6 on the pop charts, on the Smash label. Written by Barry Mann and Larry Kolber, it was a maudlin song about teenage suicide. The follow-up to this million seller, "I Saw Linda Yesterday" was a much better record and peaked at # 14. Clearly inspired by Dion's "Runaround Sue", it was co-penned by Dickey and Allen Reynolds.
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