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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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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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Bruce Bruno (bb The Cadillacs)

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Bruce Bruno (bb The Cadillacs)
Bruce Bruno

Bruce Bruno bb The Cadillacs (New Rochelle, New York)


Personnel :

Bruce Bruno (Lead)

The Cadillacs

Earl Carrol

Roland Martinez

Curtis Williams

Ray Brewster

 

Discography :

1961 - Hey Little One / Some Time, Some Place (Roulette 4386)
1962 - Dear Joanne (bb The Cadillacs) / Venus In Blue Jeans (Roulette 4427)

 

Biography :

Bruce Bruno were a New Rochelle High School Student who live at 101 Storer Avenue. Dion remembered Bruce Bruno as "The Elvis of the neighborhood" and might have helped him get on roulette records (and dion's father is credited with co-writing "Dear Joanne"). Bruce Bruno recorded Dear Joanne with a legendary Black vocal Group, the Cadillacs. Incidentally, the few who bought "Dear Joanne" as a 45 rpm single also bought the original version of "Venus in Blue Jeans" on the B side. Bruce has appeared at the Round Table night club in New York City and at the RKO Proctor theatre in Brooklyn in Bobby Rydell's show.

Bruce Bruno (bb The Cadillacs)   Bruce Bruno (bb The Cadillacs)   Bruce Bruno (bb The Cadillacs)
     Bruce Bruno                                                                   The Cadillacs   (1962)                                                    Bruce Bruno

Later he was approached by fellow Roulette act Ronnie Hawkins to sing ballads in Hawkins's Rockabilly act. Bruno joined Hawkins in canada, and when Hawkins's group quit, Bruno left with them. As the Levon Helm Sextet or Levon and the Hawks, they gigged in Canada and New York, But Bruno left after they were fire from the Peppermint Lounge. The Hawks went on to become the band, while Bruno replace Eddie Brigati in the Rascals for a short time. He became an instructor at New Rochelle High School in New York.

 

Songs :

Bruce Bruno bb The Cadillacs


Dear Joanne

Bruce Bruno

  
Venus In Blue Jeans                                 Hey Little One  

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Sonny Dee (bb The Camerons (1) & bb The Regents)

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Sonny Dee (bb The Camerons & bb The Regents)
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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Lp :

Sonny Dee (bb The Camerons & bb The Regents) 

 

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…

Sonny Dee (bb The Camerons & bb The Regents)   Sonny Dee (bb The Camerons & bb The Regents)
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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Johnny Aladdin aka The Pageants (3)

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Johnny Aladdin aka The Pageants (3)
Johnny Aladdin

Johnny Aladdin (bb unknown group) (Brooklyn, New York)
aka The Pageants (3)

 

Personnel :

Johnny "Aladdin" Amplo

Unknown Girls Group

 

Discography :

Johnny Aladdin
1960 - Why Did You Go /  Happy Together (Chip 1001)

The Pageants (3)
1960 - Why Did You Go /  Happy Together (Goldisc 3013)

 

Biography :

From 1959, The Mystics and The Passions were invited to do many show . Manager Jim Gribble would use the popularity of his two group to get his other acts in show. Al Contrera from The Mystics had introduced Johnny Amplo to Jim Gribble. Johnny Amplo was sixteen years old and lived down the block from Al on 84th Street in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn and although a few years younger, would hang out with the group at Frankie and Johnny’s. One day Al suggested that he meet their manager, Jim Gribble, and audition for a recording contract. Johnny was extremely handsome, and he thought he was just what Jim was looking for. Jim Gribble became his manager and arranged a recording for him in 1960 with the songs "Happy Together" and "Why Did You Go" written by Stan Vincent and released  bu Chip Records as Johnny Aladdin. Johnny in that recording was backed by an unknown group of girls. In November 1960, the single was re-released by Goldisc records under the name of The Pageants. although he didn't have any major success, he was bitten by the show business bug. Years later, Johnny Amplo changed his name to John Roper and went on to have a successful acting career in Hollywood with roles in several Alfred Hitchcock movies.

 

Songs :

  
Why Did You Go                           Happy Together

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Joey Delmar ( bb The Lucky-Tones)

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Joey Delmar ( bb The Lucky-Tones)
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 ( bb The Lucky-Tones)     Joey Delmar ( bb The Lucky-Tones)
                                                                                                                                                   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 & The Del-Satins & The Young Lads (2)

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Stan Vincent & The Del-Satins & The Young Lads (2)
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:.

Stan Vincent & The Del-Satins & The Young Lads (2)     Stan Vincent & The Del-Satins & The Young Lads (2)
    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 Del-Satins & The Young Lads (2)   
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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Janice Green bb The Crescendos (3)

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Janice Green bb The Crescendos (3)
Janice Green

Janice Green bb The Crescendos (3) (Nashville, TN.)


 


Personnel :


Janice Green (Lead)

The Crescendos (3)
George Lanius
Kenneth Brigham
Jim Lanius
Jimmy Hall
Tommy Fortner

 

Biography :

Formed in 1957 by five men who attended Cumberland High School in Nashville, the Crescendos succeeded with the song "Oh Julie". The record sold over one million copies, earning a gold disc. The Crescendos were recorded by the independent Nashville production company, Nu-Star, owned by Noel Ball and Ken Moffett .

Janice Green bb The Crescendos (3)  Janice Green bb The Crescendos (3)
Cash Box March 15, 1958                                                                                                       

Ball was a disc jockey on Radio WSIX and had the only rock'n'roll show in Nashwville.  Moffett came into music via a day-time job with the Genesco shoe company. Moffett and Ball spent all one Sunday recording the song, and nothing was happening until Moffett came up with the idea of adding à high-flying repetitive girl voice - that of 16-year old Janice Green, who by chance was present in the studio with her parents for an audition.

Janice Green bb The Crescendos (3)
Janice with The Crescendos (3)

Janice came from Inglewood, East Nashville and later recorded one solo single for Nasco as "The Oh Julie Girl" (6013) with the Crescendos in support. Her haunting background chant on ‘Oh Julie’ was the unique gimmick which lifted the recording into an exalted realm.

 

Songs :

Janice Green bb The Crescendos (3)

  
 Jackie                                          With All my heart

The Crescendos (3)


Oh Julie


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Rusty Carry (bb The Jordanaires)

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Rusty Carry (bb The Jordanaires)
Rusty Carry

Rusty Carry (bb The Jordanaires) (Norton, Massachusetts)

 

Personnel :

Rusty Carry (Lead)

The Jordanaires

Hoyt Hawkins (Baritone)

Neal Matthews Jr. (Second Tenor)

Gordon Stoker (Tenor)

Ray Walker (Bass)

 

Discography :

Single:
1961 - Tag Along / Our Love Can Wait (Holiday Inn 106)

Unreleased :
1961 - Lonely Tears (Holiday Inn)

 

Biography :

In august 1961 Rusty Carry, a 16 year old Norton Boy, senior at J.I. Burton High School  in Vacation in Nashville  caught a bus to the RCA recording studios in hopes of seeing Elvis Presley and to try his luck in the song. Rusty Carry meet Floyd Cramer , a noted pianist and Gordon Stoker, a member of the famed Jordanaires . They took him for a recording session. Later Stoker took Rusty to a songwriter Marijohn Willin. Marijohn wrote two songs she thought be "Right" For Him.

Rusty Carry (bb The Jordanaires)    Rusty Carry (bb The Jordanaires)
                                  The Jordanaires                                                                                Rusty Carry

In September 1961, Rusty recorded Three Songs, "Tag Along”, "Our Love Can Wait” and "Lonely Tears" Backed by the Jordanaires especially the Low voice of Ray Walker on "Tag Along" . The  first two will be released by Holiday In Records. The record has been distributed to 2400 radio stations throughout the country.The teenager has been tagged by Nashville radio announcers as the “Big Voice From A Small Town.”

 

Songs :

  
   Tag Along                                    Our Love Can Wait

 

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