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The Sty-Letts

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The Sty-Letts
Barbara Mercer

The Sty-Letts (Detroit)

 

Personnel :

Ester Lee (Lead)

Lois Hobbs (First Soprano)

Barbara Mercer (Second Soprano)

Patricia (Pat) Richardson (Alto)

 

Discography :

The Sty-Letts
1962 - Hello My Darling / To Too Far To Turn Around (Pillar 515)

Sandy & The Sty-Letts
1963 - I've Got Two Loves / Wishing Star (Rem 101)

 

Biography :

Vocal group from Detroit The Sty-Letts were composed by Ester Lee (Lead), Lois Hobbs (First Soprano), Barbara Mercer (Second Soprano) and Patricia (Pat) Richardson. (alto). In 1962, They recorded  "Hello My Darling" b/w "To Too Far To Turn Around" ( Pillar # 515 ) Written and produced by Dorothy Pierce. The next year, the group recorded "I've Got Two Loves" b/w "Wishing Star", both written by Dorothy Pierce as Sandy & The Sty-Letts on Rem Records which was also in Detroit. After a brief time in the group, Barbara signed with Golden World where she released three singles in 1965, Her 1967 recording of "Call On Me" recorded on the Sidra label was picked up by Capitol records for national distribution.

 

Songs :

The Sty-Letts

  
    Hello My Darling                          Too Far To Turn Around

Sandy & The Sty-Letts


 I've Got Two Loves

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Sonny Edwards bb The Spirals

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Sonny Edwards bb The Spirals

Sonny Edwards  bb The Spirals (Brooklyn, New York)

 

Personnel:

Sonny Edwards (Edward Romano Jr) (Lead)

The Spirals

 

Discography :

1962 - Toy Balloon / This Time I'm Gonna Cry (Cevetone 508)
1963 - Soapy Duck And The Wiggle Wobble / I Love You Tenderly (Cevetone 516)
1964 - Make The Teardrops Go Away / Hand Full Of Tears (Cheer 1007)

 

Biography :

Sonny Edwards, 18, was still in grade school when he left Jersey City. His name was not Sonny Edwards, He was just Edward Romano Jr. a boy whose young voice was a welcome addition to his church choir. Edwards syartet singing professionally at the age of 13 when he and some friends at his Brooklyn high School formed a vocal group named the Spirals. He stayed with the group until 1962, when they broke up.

Sonny Edwards bb The Spirals   Sonny Edwards bb The Spirals    Sonny Edwards bb The Spirals

Sonny has been living with his parents in Brooklyn. Sonny's Manager, John Cevetello (owner of Cevetone Records in Jersey city) live and works here. Sonny Edwards recorded Three Records and have many appearance. His biggest success includes "Toy Balloon" b/w "This Time I'm Gonna Cry", two songs he wrote himself, on the Cevetone Label. The group backing him were his friends from his old group in Bensonhurst , The Spirals.

 

Songs :

  
          Toy Balloon                               This Time I'm Gonna Cry 

  
I Love You Tenderly                            Hand Full Of Tears

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Rick Russel (bb The Del Satins)

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Rick Russel (bb The Del Satins)
Rick Russell

Rick Russel bb The Del Satins (Levittown, PA.)


Personnel :

Rick Russel (Lead)
The Del Satins
Stan Ziska
Fred Ferrara
Tom Ferrara
Leslie Cauchi
Keith Koestner

 

 Discography :

1963 - My Angel / It's Time To Cry (Poplar 120)

 

Biography :

In 1963, 18-vear-old Rick Russell of Levittown, hoping to make it to the big time as a singer and songwriter. This teenager's biggest message is: “When vou feel like you just want to die, it's time to cry” from his song, “It's Time to Cry. "Graduate of Plainedge High School, Rick have singing from long time, and his high school vears gave him plenty of practice., he started plaving the guitar in 1959.

Rick Russel (bb The Del Satins)The Del Satins

He cut the disc when he was still Richard Gennari of 248 Wantagh Ave. Levittown, But when he cut the disc at Poplar records in New York, his name read Rick Russell. Poplar, founded in New York City in 1962 by Stan Soifer, generally featured doo wop-styled groups, but backed them with often surprisingly sharp early rock arrangements that avoided being derivative by adding in little percussion touches, unusual basslines, and touches of horns. For this recording, Stan calls on one of the best vocal groups in New York: The Del Satins. The result is "My Angel" and "It's Time To Cry". Unfortunately the success is not there and Rick will not return to the studio.

 

Songs :

  
My Angel                                     It's Time To Cry

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The Moniques (1)

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The Moniques (1) (Trenton, NJ)

 

Personnel :

Robert Fletcher

Sandy Williams

Frank Billups

Gerry Billups

 

Discography  :

1962 - Hey Girl  / Goin' Down To Birdland (Benn-X55)
1962 - Love So Wonderful / Teach Me How To Dance (Benn-X58)

 

Biography :

In the 1960s, 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. The Moniques cut their two singles on Benn-X. 

 

Songs :


        
                           Hey Girl                               Goin' Down To Birdland               
        

    
           Love So Wonderful                  Teach Me How To Dance   

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The Chanters (1) ref Gene & Billy aka The Cats

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  Gene & Billy

The Chanters (1)  (Santa Monica, CA)
ref Gene & Billy aka The Cats


Personnel :

Ethel Brown

Gene Ford

Billy Boyd

Alan Boyd

 

Discography :

The Chanters (1)
Singles :
1954 - She Wants To Mambo / Tell Me, Thrill Me (RPM 415)
1955 - Watts / Why (Combo 78)
1955 - I love You / Hot Mama (Combo 92)
Unreleased :
1955 - Do you Remember (Combo)

The Cats
1955 - Get Gone / You're So Nice (Federal 12238)
1955 - I Don't Care No More / After I Gave You My Heart (Federal 12438)

Gene & Billy
1955 - Zerlene / It's Hot / (Spark 120)
1955 - Zerlene / The Whip (Billy & Billygoats) (Loma 702)

 

Biography :

The Chanters were a Santa Monica vocal group and not to be confused with the Queens, NY group. This group consisted of Ethel Brown from the squires (on Combo)  Gene Ford, Alan Boyd, and Billy Boyd. On RPM, they had just this one record. They also had two releases on Combo Records in 1955. Gene Ford had sung with Jim Forrest & The Four Feathers.

The Cats aka Gene & Billy    The Cats aka Gene & Billy

When the group broke up, Gene & Billy cut "Zerlene " "It's Hot" in 1955 on the short lived Spark label. Spark Records was the brainchild of the clever Jerry Leiber and the gutsy Mike Stoller. The Same year, Gene & Billy cut two Singles for Federal, King Record's subsidiary, under the name of the Cats.

 

Songs :

The Chanters (1)

  
She Wants To Mambo                           Tell Me, Thrill Me

  
I love You                                       Hot Mama

  
Watts                                                   Why


Do you Remember

 

The Cats

   
I Don't Care No More                                 Get Gone      

   
After I Gave You My Heart        You're So Nice

 

Gene & Billy

  
Zerlene                                      It's Hot

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Eddie Delmar bb The Bob Knight Four

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Eddie Delmar bb The Bob Knight Four
Eddie Delmar

Eddie Delmar bb The Bob Knight Four (Brooklyn, NY.)

 

Personnel :

Eddie Delmar (Lead)

The Bob Knight Four
Bobby Bovino
Paul Ferrigno
Ralph Garone
John Ropers

 

Discography :

1961 - Garden In The Rain / My Heart Beckons You (Vegas 628)
1961 - Blanche / Love Bells (Madison 168)

 

Biography :

In 1956, Bob "Nemo" Nemser was an aspiring songwriter and singer. He had many friends who had groups and "Hung out" with these types on a regular basis. Bob's close friend, Marvin Della Croce, Aka Eddie Delmar, was singing in a talent show at The China Lantern, a small club of Flatsbush Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. Bob "Nemo" Nemser became Eddie Delmar's Manager and a partner in a BMI publishing company called Nedell Music. A disc Jockey, Harry Newman, out of a radio in Philadelphia, PA, introduced Bob Nemser and Eddie Delmar to the Bob Knight Four. Formed in 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, this vocal group featured Bob Bovino aka Bob Knight (lead), Paul Ferrigno (first tenor), Ralph Garone (baritone) and John Ropers (bass). This Meeting led the group in studio, and the Demo "Cara Mia" was recorded. The song written by Bob Nemser, was later turned into a hit by Jay & the Americans.

Eddie Delmar bb The Bob Knight Four    Eddie Delmar bb The Bob Knight Four
The Bob Knight Four                          

This association between Delmar and the Bob Knight four lead to a release in 1961, when DJ Harry Newman's friend, Sid Payne, heard Eddie and wanted to record him on his Vegas Label. They recorded the Old Standard "Garden In The Rain", and a Nemser original, "My Heart Beckons You". Payne had the group Follow-up, "Love Bells", and their version of "Blanche", and had this released on the Madison Label in late 1961. "Love Bells" became a hit; it sold ten thousand copies the first days. Nemser became the manager of the Bob Knight Four during the mid-'60s, a period in which the original group splintered amid the burgeoning British Invasion and the accompanying decline of interest in harmony vocal music. Charlie Licata joined Garrone and Nappier in a new version of the Bob Knight Four, with Eddie Delmar and Frank Iovino on lead. They endured into 1966, crossing paths with the Tokens at the time.

 

Songs : :

  
My Heart Beckons You                         Garden In The Rain

  
Love Bells                                                  Blanche

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The Cosines

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Paul Simon & Carole King

The Cosines (Brooklyn, New York)

 

Personnel :

Carole King "Klein" (piano, vocals)

Iris Lipnik (vocals)

Joel Zwick (vocals)

Leonard Pullman (vocals)

 

Discography :

1992 - Ask Me Why / Just To Be With You (Chance 102)

 

Biography :

Paul Simon produced records for other artists and wrote many songs which he recorded, mainly for Amy Records, as $25 demos for  Dion, Fabian & Bobby Vee and many others.  From 1958 to 1959 he worked with Carole Klein "Carole King" who formed her own group in 1957, the Cosines. The Cosines were composed of Madison High School Pupils, has been attracting attention locally. The group  members are Carole Klein, Iris Lipnik, Joel Zwick and Leonard Pullman.

The Cosines which did demos for The Fleetwoods & The Passions and others. "Just To Be With You" recorded by The Passions in 1958 was their most successful work. Paul published his songs in his own company: Landis Music. From Amy Records times come these two tracks by The Cosines which were released by Chance label in 1992.

 

Songs :

   
Just To Be With You                                  Ask Me Why    

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The Sonnets (1)

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The Sonnets (1)

The Sonnets (1) (Baltimore, Maryland)
Thanks to  Liam

 

Personnel :

Guy "Doc" Bragg

Maxwell Chatman

Billy Nixon

Michael Monroe

Gordon Koger

Marvin ?

 

Discography :

1956 - Why Should We Break Up / Please Won't You Call Me (Herald 477)
1958 - Angel Of My Dreams / Oh, Judy (Lane 501)

 

Biography :

The Sonnets were a vocal group from Baltimore, Maryland, featured members Guy "Doc" Bragg, Maxwell Chatman, Billy Nixon, Michael Monroe, Gordon Koger, and Marvin ?. The Sonnets were brought to Al Silver's Herald Records by Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman of "Flying Saucer" fame in May of 1956. "Why Should We Break Up?" b/w "Please Won't You Call Me" was Herald 477. Most groups made a single and disappeared from the musical landscape, not the Sonnets...
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The Sonnets (1)  The Sonnets (1)  The Sonnets (1)
Guy "Doc" Bragg                                                                                                                                         Gordon Koger  

Two years later they recorded "Angel of My Dreams" and "Oh Judy" for Lane Records. Lane Records was formed with president Angelo Vinci, secretary Peter Forlini, treasurer Ralph Parla, and promotion man Nick Bellarosa. The Sonnets & Marty DeRose were the only artists signed by the label.

 

Songs :

  
Why Should We Break Up                   Please Won't You Call Me

  
Angel Of My Dreams                                 Oh, Judy         

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