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The Supremes (5) aka Ruby & The Romantics - Ref: The Skarlettones

Posted on January 22 2009 by dion1

The Supremes (5) aka Ruby & The Romantics - Ref: The Skarlettones

Top : Leroy Fann, Ronald Mosely - Bottom : Ed Roberts

The Supremes (5) (Akron, Ohio)
aka Ruby & The Romantics
Ref The Skarlettones

Personnel :

James Porter (First Tenor)

Ed Roberts (Second Tenor)

Ronald Mosely (Baritone)

Arthur Atkinson (Baritone/Bass)

Leroy Fann (Bass)

Discography :  

The Supremes (5)

1960 - Another Chance To Love / Fidgety (APT 25055)

The Skarlettones

 Single :
1959 - Do You Remember / Will You Dream (Ember 1053)

Unreleased:
1959 - How Sentimental Can I Be

Biography :

The Skarlettones formed in 1958 and hailed from Akron, Ohio. Members were Ronald Mosely (whose career eventually took off), James Porter, Columbus Mitchell, Robert Carter, and Willie Tucker. When their Ember recording went nowhere, members Ronald Mosely (baritone) and James Porter (first tenor) joined with Ed Roberts (second tenor), Arthur Atkinson (baritone/bass), and Leroy Fann (bass) eventually calling themselves The Supremes (male Group.) They recorded "Another Chance To Love" b/w "Fidgety" on Apt #25055 which was released in December 1960.

The Supremes (5) aka Ruby & The Romantics - Ref: The Skarlettones

From Top to Bottom : Leroy Fann, Ronald Mosely & Ed Roberts

Still having no success with their recordings 2 members left The Supremes. Ronald Mosely, Leroy Fann and Ed Roberts recruited George Lee (1st tenor), changed their name to The Feilows, and in 1961 auditioned an impressive but inexperienced female vocalist, Ruby Nash who had never been out of Akron. After a year of rehearsing with all 5 singing lead, The Feilows travelled to NYC to record for Kapp Records but their name was changed to Ruby & The Romantics and the rest is history! Having 8 songs charted nationally on Billboard, their signature song (their biggest) was OUR DAY WILL COME - Kapp #501 which charted for 13 weeks and reached #1 in March 1963. Ruby has affirmed in interviews that all 5 members recorded and performed as Ruby & The Romantics until they broke up in 1971.
http://www.uncamarvy.com/Romantics/romantics.html

Songs :

The Supremes (5)

Another Chance To Love Fidgety

The Skarlettones 

Do You Remember Will You Dream How Sentimental Can I Be

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The Velvetones (5) aka The Saucers

Posted on January 20 2009 by dion1

The Saucers aka the Velvetones (5)

The Saucers (Dallas, Texas)
aka The Velvetones (5)
(with Hans-Joachim)

Personnel :

Jimmy Beacham

Leonard Allen

Charles Beacham

Verdie Lee Thomas

James Stanley

Discography :

The Saucers

Singles :
1959 - Why Do I Dream? / Cha Wailey Routa (Felco 104)
1959 - Flossie Mae / Hi-Oom (Kick 100)
1964 - Hello Darling / Giggle Goo (Lynne 101)

Unreleased :
1959 - Hey Girl
1959 - Time Gives Me Plasure
1959 - Who Took My Girl
1959 - Old Mother Hubbard
1959 - Please Understand
1959 - Debbie Lee
1959 - Darling
1959 - Mighty Mighty Man
1959 - This Feeling Is Killing Me
1959 - Please Come Back To Me
1959 - Love You Baby
1959 - Come Back To Me
1959 - My Love My Love (Eddy McCall bb The Saucers)

The Velvetones (5)

Singles :
1959 - Come Back / Penalty Of Love (D 1049)
1959 - Worried Over You / Space Man (D 1072)

Biography :

Compsed by Jimmy Beacham, Leonard Allen, Charles Beacham, Verdie Lee Thomas and James Stanley, the Saucers were on of the few doo wop groups from Texas, a blues and R&B stronghold. They are a really good Black quintet with strong, beautiful lead vocals and harmonizing on ballads, uptempo and novelty tunes.

The Saucers aka the Velvetones (5)
Jimmy Beacham, Leonard Allen, Charles Beacham, Verdie Lee Thomas and James Stanley

Native vocal groups were not very popular in texas during the 50s and the style came to the state rather late in the decade after being extremely popular along the east and west coasts. Despite the late arrival, those few groups that did emerge in Texas learned their lesson well. Of these, the Saucers are the Velvetones, who recorded on Dee records under this name, were the Best and certainly equal to many to the more popular groups on either coast.
Note on CD "Presenting the Saucers"

Songs :

The Saucers

Flossie Mae                             Hi-Oom


Why Do I Dream                           Cha Wailey Routa


Hello Darling / Giggle Goo               Please Understand


Time Gives Me Pleasure                         Debbie Lee

Please Come Back To Me

The Velvetones (5)

Come Back                                  Penalty Of Love


Worried Over You                                Space Men

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The Sweet Sick Teens aka The Dynamics (8) aka The Dellwoods

Posted on January 20 2009 by dion1

The Dynamics (8) (New York)
aka The Sweet Sick Teens aka The Dellwoods

Personnel :

Victor Buccellato (Lead)

Mike Ellis (First Tenor)

Andy Ventura (Second Tenor)

Amadeo Tese (Baritone)

Saul Zeskand (Bass)

Discography :

The Sweet Sick Teens
1961 - The Pretzel (Lead Mike Russo) / Agnes, The Teenage Russian Spy (RCA 7940)

The Dynamics (8)
1963 - Chapel On A Hill / Conquistador (Liberty 55628)

The Dellwoods
1963 - Don't Put Onions On Your Hamburger / Her Moustache (Big Top 3137)

Lps:

1962 - Mad "Twist" Rock'n Roll (Big Top LP 1305)
(She Got A) Nose Job / Please Betty Jane (Shave Your Legs) / Agnes (The Teenage Russian Spy) / Let's Do The Pretzel (And End Up Like One) / (Even If I Live To Be 22) I'll Always Remember Being You

1963 - Fink Along With Mad (Big Top LP 1306)
I'll Never Make Fun Of Her Moustache Again / Don't Put Onions On Your Hamburger / When The Braces On Our Teeth Lock / The Neighborhood Draft Board

Biography :

Mad, the American humour magazine, was founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Widely imitated and hugely influential, although a lot of the 'humour' is probably lost on us Brits, it has satirised all aspects of life, from pop culture and politics to entertainment and public figures

Saul Zeskand, Mike Ellis, Andy Ventura, Victor Buccellato & Amadeo Tese

The 1962 album MAD Twists Rock 'n Roll, a 12 track lampoon of then-current rock and roll styles and stars. The material on the album was written and produced independently of MAD, as a parody album, by Norm Blagman and Sam Bobrick, two men who had already scored a couple of hits between them with Elvis Presley's The Girl of My Best Friend and Ral Donner's top 10 US hit To Love Someone. Failing to attract much interest in their rock and roll parody it wasn't until MAD became involved that the duo get managed to this released - on Big Top records in 1962. Sure they were on to a winning formula, they followed this up with the similar Fink Along With MAD a year later.

Mike Russo

Incidentally, the Dellwoods - who recorded the majority of the tracks on both albums both under their original name and as the Sweet Sick Teens - were a real group, consisting of Saul Zeskand, Mike Ellis, Andy Ventura, Victor Buccellato and Amadeo Tese. Unfortunately, before the release of Fink Along... group member Mike Ellis overdosed on drugs. The group went on to change their name to The Dynamics, releasing the 45 Chapel On A Hill/Conquistador for Liberty Records.

http://worldsworstrecords.blogspot.fr/2010/02/its-mad-mad-world.html

Songs :

The Sweet Sick Teens

Agnes, The Teenage Russian Spy         The Pretzel (Mike Russo)

The Dellwoods

Don't Put Onions On Your Hamburger       Please Betty Jane (Shave Your Legs)       (She Got A) Nose Job

I'll Always Remember Being You     I'll Never Make Fun Of ...      When The Braces On Our Teeth Lock

The Neighborhood Draft Board

The Dynamics (8)

Chapel On A Hill / Conquistador

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The Dreamers (16) aka The Accents (3)

Posted on January 20 2009 by dion1

Shelly Weiss, Al Senzon, Mike Lasman, Ian Kay

The Dreamers (16) (Brooklyn, New-York)  
aka The Accents (3)

Personnel :

Mike Lasman (Lead)

Shelly Weiss (First Tenor)

Alan Senzon (Second Tenor)

Ian Kay (Baritone)

Discography :

The Dreamers (16)
Single :
1960 - Mary Mary / Canadian Sunset (Guaranteed 219)
Unreleased :
1960- Zing (Guaranteed)

The Accents (3)
1963 - Where Can I Go / Rags To Riches (Sultan 5500)

Scott English & The Accents (3)
1963 - High On A Hill / When (By the Dedications) (Sultan 4003 / Spokane 4003)
1964 - Here Comes The Pain / All I Want Is You (Spokane 4007)

Biography :

This doo wop quartet in this segment met on the boardwalk of Brighton Beach and formed a group in 1960. They were Shelly Weiss (first tenor), Ian Kaye (baritone), Allan Senzan (second tenor), and Mike Lasman (lead). They were students at Erasmus and Lincoln high schools. Ian Kay sang with several Doo Wop groups from 1957 - 1963. His first group was the Vocal Kings from Flatbush.

The Vocal Kings

Lasman had previously recorded as lead singer of Mike and the Utopians on the Ceejay label. Weiss had recorded for JDS Records in early 1960 as a member of the Bobby Roy and the Chord-a-roys, who also backed Barry Mann on various demo records that reportedly included “Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp Bomp Bomp)” The four boardwalk vocalists originally called themselves the Dreams and practiced regularly on the corner of Church and Flatbush Avenues. They met Jerry Halperin, owner of Halperin Music on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, who liked their intricate pop harmonies and became their manager.

Henceforth the group practiced right in Halperin’s record store.
The boys’ polished pop sound soon earned them a deal with Guaranteed Records of New York, a subsidiary of Carlton Records. The first release was the old standard “Canadian Sunset,” but the bland production and lack of promotion doomed it almost from inception.

Dropped after only one release, the group changed its name to the Accents and its style to doo-wop, putting together a reworking of the old ballad “Rags to Riches.” They also began practicing an old Jewish ballad entitled “Where Can I Go,” complete with middle section sung in Hebrew, and it was this song they performed in an audition for Sultan Records. The audition was successful, and “Rags to Riches” backed with “Where Can I Go” became their first single release as the Accents. “Rags” became a Brooklyn favorite among doo-wop enthusiasts but never hit the charts. It did, however, give them enough exposure to land them a spot in an Allan Freed Show at the Ambassador Hotel in the Catskill Mountains.

The Castaways

Between the group’s local engagements Kaye and Senzan sang backup with the Del Satins on Dion’s hit “Ruby Baby” in late 1962. Weiss began singing with Jay and the Americans and became that group’s road manager for a period in 1965.The group back up to Scott English on his 1963 Spokane’s sides : "High on A Hill", "Heres Comes The Pain" and "All I Want Is You". And finally broke up. Mike Lasman then joined a short lived group called the Castaways with Bobby Kutner, Shelly Weiss and Larry Kasman, who was the lead singer of the Quotations.

Songs :

(Update By Hans-Joachim)

The Dreamers (16)

Canadian Sunset Mary Mary

The Accents (3)

Rags To Riches                       Where Can I Go

Scott English & The Accents (3)

High On A Hill Here Comes The Pain All I Want Is You

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The Bluenotes (4) aka The Blue Notes (2) aka The Epidemics

Posted on January 20 2009 by dion1

The Blue Notes (2) (Asheboro in North Carolina )
aka The Bluenotes (4) aka The Epidemics

Personnel :

Joe Tanner (gtr)

Pat Patterson

Tom Underwood

Ralph Harrington

Discography :

The Blue Notes (2)
1955 - Christmas Chimes / There'll Always Be a Christmas (Colonial 408)
1956 - On A Sleepy Sunday Afternoon / Who's Gonna Sing Your Love Songs (Colonial 409)

The Bluenotes (4)
1958 - You're A Tiger / Let Her Know (Colonial 7779)
1958 - I Waited / Never Never Land (Colonial 9999)
1959 - I Don't Know What It Is / Summer Love (Brooke 111)
1959 - You Can't Get Away From Love / I Don't Know What It Is (Brooke 111)
1960 - I'm Gonna Find Out / Forever On My Mind (Brooke 116)

The Bluenotes (4) (Featuring Doug Franklin)
1957 - Page One / Mighty Low (Colonial 434)

The Bluenotes (4) (Featuring Ralph Harington)
1960 - Summer Love / It Had To Be You (Brooke 119)

Doug Franklin & The Bluenotes (4)
1958 - My Lucky Love / Drizzlin' Rain (Colonial 7777)
1958 - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now / I Used To Wonder (Colonial 8888)

Johnny Dee & Bluenotes (4)
1957 - Teenage Queen / It's Gotta Be You (Colonial 433)
1957 - 1000 Concrete Blocks / In My Simple Way (Colonial 435)

Ebe Sneezer (Johnny Dee) & The Epidemics
1957 - Asiatic Flu / That's All I've Got (Colonial 436)

Biography :

The Bluenotes were a vocal group featuring Tom Underwood, Joe Tanner, Pat Patterson, and Ralph Harrington. They recorded at Colonial and Brooke Records, two labels of North Carolina. Their first single, Page One/Mighty Low, was released in 1957 on the Colonial label and the last single, It Had To Be You/Summer Love, was released in 1960 on the Brooke label.

With Ebe Sneezer (Johnny Dee ) & Cecelia Batten

They also sang on several other records on Colonial with other artists. They had a pop singles chart entry in 1959 with "I Don't Know What It Is." So, masquerading as Ebe Sneezer with the Epidemics, Johnny Dee recorded the "Asiatic Flu" and "That's All I've Got" with the Bluenotes.
Joe Tanner had success after the breakup of The Bluenote.

He worked with Roy Orbison. He also arranged and produced many songs, including In Dreams (Roy Orbison), A Rose and a Baby Ruth (George Hamilton IV), and Sittin' In the Balcony (John D. Loudermilk. He also played guitar on Orbison's hit, Oh, Pretty Woman.

With Ebe Sneezer (Johnny Dee )
http://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursb/bluenotes.htm
http://www.ihesm.com/Loudermilk1.html

Songs :

I Don't Know What It Is Mighty Low

Summer Love You're A Tiger

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Cathy Jean & The Roomates aka The Roommates

Posted on January 19 2009 by dion1

Cathy Jean & The Roomates aka The Roommates (Queens, New York)

Personnel :

Cathy Jean Girodano (Lead)

Steve Susskind (Lead)

Jack Carlson (First Tenor and Falsetto)

Felix Alvarez (Second Tenor)

Bob Minsky (Bass)

Discography :

Cathy Jean & The Roomates
1961 - Please Love Me Forever / Canadian Sunset (Valmor 007)
1961 - Make Me Smile Again / Sugar Cake (Valmor 009)
1961 - One Love / I Only Want You (Valmor 011)
1962 - Believe me / Double Trouble (Philips 40143)
1962 - Please Tell me / Sugar Cake (Valmor 016)
1991 - You don't have to say you love me / It's so hard (Cure 91-02801)

The Roomates (Fb Cathy Jean)
1963 - My Heart Belongs To Only You/ I only want you (Philips 40106)

Biography :

From Kew Gardens, Queens New York, the Roommates were fifteen year old Steve Susskind and Bob Minsky of Russell Sage Junior High. Susskind originally sang with a local quartet called the Sparklers, but in 1959 he and Minsky became a duo. Later that year they took second place at a Forest Hills High School competition losing to Tom and Jerry who would later become Simon and Garfunkel.
Deciding to become a group several members came and went until the 1960 members included Steve Susskind (lead), Jack Carlson (first tenor and falsetto), Felix Alvarez (second tenor) and Bob Minsky (bass).

The group practiced after school and began writing songs. Realizing the songs weren't good enough they began going through their 45s to find workable material coming up with "One Summer Night" and "The Glory of Love." The group often sang in the lobby of the Forest Hills apartment building where Jody Malis lived. Malis was the record librarian at WMGM radio, which had one of the nation's first top 40 formats. Along with her husband Gene she signed them to a management contract.
The Roommates first single was a country hit from the '50s "Making Believe". "Making Believe " received some airplay, but soon disappeared.

On May 3, 1960 the Malis' recorded another new single for their recently established Valmor label. The singer, fourteen year old Cathy Jean, recorded the ballad "Please Love Me Forever." Feeling that something was missing the Roommates were brought in and overdubbed the harmony parts. Cathy Jean had already left the studio by the time the Roommates recorded so they never met her. Feeling that if they had a hit they would have two acts, the Malis' credited both on the label.
"Please Love Me Forever" won Murray the K's Boss record of the Week on WINS in New York City in late 1960. On February 27th it entered the Billboard Hot 100 and by April it was at number twelve, reaching number two in New York. None of Cathy's follow-ups sold many copies.
As a reward for their part in "Please Love Me Forever" The Malises gave the Roommates a free session at the Regent Sound Studio. That night, November 25, 1960 they recorded "Band of Gold," "Glory of Love," and "My Foolish Heart." "Glory of Love" entered the charts and rose to #49. "Band of Gold," made it into the top twenty in New York, but failed to chart nationally for a technical reason.

Before Valmor Records closed down in 1962 a Cathy and the Roommates album was issued. George Rodriguez was added to the Roommates. Versions of "Gee" and "A Sunday Kind of Love" were recorded, but no one was buying. In the spring of 1965 the Roommates disbanded.
Cathy later got married and quit the business. With her children grown Cathy is back. As Cathy Jean Ruiz she sings with a new version of the Roommates and has hosted a Saturday morning talk show on WNYG in Long Island, NY.
http://www.bsnpubs.com/la/valmor.html

CD :
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The Cyclones (2) aka The Furys (2)

Posted on January 18 2009 by dion1

The Cyclones (2) aka The Furys (2)

The Furys (2) (Los Angeles)
aka The Cyclones (2)
ref : The Centennials

Personnel :

Jerome Evans (Baritone / Lead)

Robert Washington

Melvin White

Georges Taylor

Jimmy Green

Discography :

The Cyclones (2)
1959 - Big Mary / Good Goodnight (Forward 313)

The Furys (2)
1961 - So Tuff / Over You (Pains In My Heart) (Edsel 786 / Mack IV 05)
1962 - Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart / Never More (Mack IV 112)
1962 - If There's A Next Time / Another Fella (Mack IV 114)
1962 - I Really Feel Good / The Old Days (Mack IV 115)
1964 - Gee Baby / Somebody's Fox (Mack IV 117)
1964 - I Lost My Baby / What Is Soul (Mack IV 118)
1964 - Where My Money Goes / Cover Girl (Aura 396)
1964 - Baby You Can Bet Your Boots / The Man Who Has Everything (Liberty 55692)
1964 - If I Didn't Have A Dime / Dream (Liberty 55719)
1964 - Anything For You / Cat 'N Mouse (World Pacific 386)

The Centennials
1961 - My Dear One / The Wayward Wind (Dot 16180)

Biography :

JJerome Evans started singing when he was a mere 3 years old imitating songs he heard on the radio. Growing up in the West Los Angeles neighborhood of 42nd Street between Broadway and Main, Jerome starting "foolin' around" with his brothers and some other friends singing in amateur shows in 1952. Later, Jerome formed a group called the Cyclones along with Robert Washington, Melvin White and George Taylor. In 1959, the Cyclones recorded "Big Mary" for George Motola's Forward Records (Forward 313). In the same period Jerome Evans had been a member of The Lions & The Centennials.

The Cyclones (2) aka The Furys (2)
Jimmy Green Jimmy McEachin (Mack)

Later, in 1962, the four members of the Cyclones joined Jimmy Green (the brother of Vernon Green of the Medallions) to form a new group. The group was practicing one day when songwriter/producer Jimmy McEachin (who wrote such novelty hits as the Fight and Gravel Gert for the Barons in 1959) heard them and decided to take them into the studio giving them their new name - the Furys. The group recorded a number of records for McEachin including So Tough b/w I've Got a Pain in My Head (Over You) (Edsel 786 -1961).

The Furys (2) aka The Cyclones (2)

"Over You" did pretty well for 6 months and was played a lot on KGFJ and was pushed by Hunter Hancock on his radio show. The Furys later would score on McEachin's own Mark IV label with a rendition of "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart" b/w "Never More" . Of all the groups that recorded Zing, the Furys' version is probably the most recognized. That was the beginning of everything for the Furys, working with the William Morris agency, the group did a lot of big shows.

The Cyclones (2) aka The Furys (2)

The Furys later moved to Liberty records where they recorded "Man Who Has Everything" b/w "Baby, You Can Bet Your Boots" and "If I Didn't Have A Dime" b/w "Dream" and the World Pacific label where they cut "Cat 'N Mouse" b/w "Anything For You .The Furys also recorded under the name of Private Eye and did Charlie Chan and Dances With Charlie Chan (Kris Records). When the British invasion hit, the Furys went overseas doing tours in Japan and in southeast asia (in 1970). The group later disbanded in the early 1970's.

Discography :
(updated by Hans-Joachim)

The Cyclones (2)


      Good Goodnight                       Big Mary

The Furys (2)


So Tuff                  Over You (Pains In My Heart)            Never More

Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart


If There's A Next Time               Another Fella                      I Really Feel Good


The Old Days                         Gee Baby                           Somebody's Fox


      I Lost My Baby                      What Is Soul                    Where My Money Goes


   Cover Girl           Baby You Can Bet Your Boots    The Man Who Has Everything


If I Didn't Have A Dime                 Dream                   Anything For You

Cat 'N Mouse

The Centennials

My Dear One / The Wayward Wind

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Les Ledo & The Consorts (1) aka Nick Marco & The Venetians

Posted on January 18 2009 by dion1

Nick Marco & The Venetians aka Les Ledo & The Consorts (1)
Les Ledo & The Consorts

Les Ledo & The Consorts (1) (Manhattan, New York)
aka Nick Marco & The Venetians

Personnel :

Les Ledo (Lead)

Nick Marco (Lou Bonini)

Joe Walsh

Bobby Fava

Danny Conboy

Discography :

Nick Marco & The Venetians
1960 - Little Boy Lost / Would It Hurt You (Dwain 813)

Les Ledo & The Consorts (1)
1959 - Nina / I Got Me A Sweetheart (Nina 1601)

Biography :

Joe Walsh wound up with four other guys in a group called Les Ledo and his Consorts, a name that particularly vexed the rest of the guys. The group would hang out at local recording studios and get side work as background singers.

Nick Marco & The Venetians aka Les Ledo & The Consorts (1)
Nick Marco & The Venetians

The group even recorded its own 45 rpm on the small Nina studio label. It was at a session for Dion and the Belmonts in 1959 that Walsh had a fleeting brush with fame. One of the Belmonts was unable to attend the scheduled recording session at the famous Brill Building. Walsh was at the studio that day looking for work when he was asked if he could sing second tenor.

Nick Marco & The Venetians

The song, "A Teenager in Love," immediately began to climb the charts, and soon sold over 1 million copies. That same year, Jim Gribble, who managed a number of successful groups, including Jay and the Americans, The Passions, the Fiestas and The Mystics, heard Les Ledo and his Consorts at a studio session. The record companies liked the Consorts but didn't care much for Les Ledo's voice. Gribble offered to manage the Consorts if Ledo wasn't in the group. So at the next rehearsalthe Consorts walked out and went back to Gribble.

Nick Marco & The Venetians aka Les Ledo & The Consorts (1)

Gribble took the boys on, made member Louis Bonini the lead singer, and renamed him Nick Marco. He also changed the name of the group to Nick Marco and the Venetians. Gribble got the group a recording contract in 1959, but unlike some of the other acts he managed, this contract was on Dwain records, a small company with hardly any budget for distribution.

Nick Marco & The Venetians

The 45 rpm recording of "Little Boy Lost," with "Would It Hurt You" on the flip side, got some regional East Coast air play. But when fans went to the record stores to purchase a copy, it was difficult to find. About the same time, disc jockey Alan Freed of WINS-AM, the premier doo-wop and rock station in New York, was indicted for taking bribes in what became known as the "payola" scandal.

Songs :

Nick Marco & The Venetians

Little Boy Lost Would It Hurt You

Les Ledo & The Consorts (1)

Nina I Got Me A Sweetheart

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The Demilles aka The Camerons (2)

Posted on January 18 2009 by dion1

The Camerons (2) (Bronx, New York)
aka The Demilles

Personnel :

Mike DeMartino "Mike Taylor" (Lead)

Bobby Falcone

Al Crisci

Dave Romano

Discography :

The Camerons (2)

Single :
1961 - Guardian Angel / The Girl That I Marry (Cousins 1003)

Unreleaseds:
1960 - Red Red Robin (Cousins)
1960 - Laura (Cousins)
1962 - Barbara's Doin' The Twist (Cousins)
1962 - Swinging On A Star (Cousins)

Mike Taylor "DeMartino" bb The Camerons (2)
1962 - He´s A Lover / Mi-A-Suri Talk (Dream)

Carlo bb The Camerons (2)
1963 - Little Orphan Girl / Mairzy Doats (Laurie 3157)

The Demilles
1964 - Donna Lee / Um-Ba-Pa (Laurie 3230)
1964 - Cry And Be On Your Wy / Lazy Love (Laurie 3247)

Biography :

Formed by Bobby Falcone, Al Crisci and Mike DeMartino (aka Mike Taylor), This Camerons have no relation to the earlier Camerons on Cousins Records. This was a totally different group which simply "borrowed" the name (they had once been know as the Idols) for their Cousin release "Guardian Angel". "Guardian Angel" The song had come to Cichetti's attention via the previous recording by Al Reno & the Selections (Antone 101) and was one which he was anxious to record himself. Once completed and released on Cousins, the masters eventually was acquired and issued by Felsted (a subsidiary of london records). Dave Romano (Of the Tremont) joined the Camerons after their recording. They recorded four songs " Red Red Robin", "Laura", "Barbara's Doin' The Twist" and "Swinging on a star", which remained unreleased.

Their next release was "Mi-A-Suri Talk", written by Ernie Maresca in honor of Murray the K, a famous New York DJ. The record was produced by group member Mike DeMartino, who had it release under his own stage name of Mike Taylor. Bobby Falcone sang together with Dave Romano (Tremonts), Carlo (Belmont) as the Glen Stuart Chorus, Backing an unknown "Dion" imitator on Abel Records in 1963. The Camerons' next move was to Laurie records, where they became The Demilles. The Demilles had two releases on Laurie records. The first release "Donna Lee" had Carlo of the Belmonts added to the Group.

Songs :

The Camerons (2)


Guardian Angel                             The Girl That I Marry


Laura                                            Red Red Robin

Mike Taylor "Mike DeMartino" bb The Camerons (2)

He´s A Lover Mi-A-Suri Talk

The Demilles

Donna Lee Um-Ba-Pa

Cry And Be On Your Wy

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The Travelers (2)

Posted on January 16 2009 by dion1

The Travelers (2) (Brooklyn, New York)

Personnel :

Frenchie Concepcion "Frank Lopez" (Lead)

James Baldwin (Baritone)

Freddy (Baritone)

Discography :

Singles :
1957 - Lenora / Betty Jean (Atlas 1086)

Unreleased :
1957 - Love Is All I Crave (Atlas)

Biography :

Frenchie Concepcion met a quartet who sang at local community centers in the East New York section of Brooklyn. The quartet took him in as their new lead singer, under the name "Frank Lopez." They practiced mostly standards as well as songs they'd written themselves.

One day they heard about an audition being held by Tommy Robinson, owner of Atlas records at a studio at 124th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, in Harlem. In mid-1957, the Travelers recorded "Lenora," a song Frenchie had written and the old Wrens song, "Betty Jean" who were released on Atlas in August. After being together for about two years, a couple of the guys went into the service and that was the end of the Travelers.

Songs :

Lenora Betty Jean

Love Is All I Crave

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