Big band vocalist, television host, personal manager and concert producer Joe Graydon from Washington, DC is present in the doo wop guides with...
-Again / It Happened to Me. Hamilton records-1959.
The A side was originally recorded in 1949 by Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra (Vocal chorus by Joe Graydon).
With the rise of the doo wop sound, Joe made the doowop version of that song in 1959 (some sources date this song from 1958, 59 and even 1960).
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Scarce college radio edition of this "THE BELMONTS featuring CARLO" 28-track CD compiled for Radio Airplay.
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Group Name; unknown
Place; unknown
Year; unknown
Maybe an amateur and unrecorded white group, even so is a very nice picture of a white group singing.
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New CD available from the german group THE CRYSTALAIRS made by Crystal Ball records.
THE CRYSTALAIRS 'Now And Then'
28 tracks in all - half BRAND NEW material and half are lost sides that for some reason never made it to CD.
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Photo taken at the Bell Music School where you can see a young Dion DiMucci playing the guitar with her classmates.
I recently found this photo of Johnny Jack Greco from Pittsburgh which I am going to add to my 2014 post about this singer.
Singer/composer/musician Don Robertson with country music singer Bonnie Guitar are present in the Complete Book of Doo Wop as...
THE ECHOES.
-Born To Be With You / My Guiding Light. Dolton records-1960. (Dolton is the record label owned by Bonnie).
In this recording they have a poor doo wop sound.
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Rare color photo of the group The Viscounts from UK.
Check out my past post on this group here; https://whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com/2009/09/viscountsthat-stranger.html
If you are a fan of the singer Dion Dimucci and you have always wanted to sing one of her songs like the well-known "The Wanderer", I offer you the complete sheet music of that song so you can practice.
A rare sheet music published in the UK in 1962, click to enlarge.
This 45 rpm does not appear in any doo wop music guide as well as on the internet, but I think it is a good candidate to appear in them.
DICK CERO & The 4 Sounds.
-Beverly / No One But You. Adanti records-19??.
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Rare photo of singer Dion DiMucci (formerly lead of Dion & The Belmonts) in full performance on stage with a guitar.
Perhaps a rare photo of this singer taken from the front row of the concert.
Place and date of this performance is unknown.
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Bobby Callender with...
..The Del-Satins...are present in the doo wop guides with...
-Beatty Dean / One By One. Sky records-1964.
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Nice composition of the The Belmonts group photo and the sheet music of the song "Tell My Why". Another photo that should be hanging on the wall of every doo wop music fan.
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Surely this German group from the late 90's, The C-Five is very little known by fans of doo wop music, but for my taste they have a very good white group sound from the 50's.
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Article appeared at the end of the year 1960 detailing the beginnings of the Disk Jokey, Bruce Morrow also known as Cousin Brucie or Cousin Bruce Morrow.
In this article there are rare photos of doo wop groups such as Dion & The Belmonts, The Temptations (white group), The Turbans and Dickie Doo & The Don'ts.
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Chuck Thomas (from The Four Chevelles) with ...
The Hitchhikers ... are present ...In the doo wop guides with ...
-Why Baby / Let Our Hearts Be Our Guide. Band Box records-1964.
In the Complete Book of Doo Wop as...Chuck Thomas & The Hitchhikers.
In the Jeff Kreiter guide as...Chuck Thomas & Group.
In the Band Box label as...Chuck Thomas with Johnny & The Hitchhikers.
And here the confusion begins.
Some sources say that The Hitchhikers were never on this recording, others say they were, but that the record label was wrong and labeled them Johnny & The Hitchhikers and lastly I think it is the correct theory that Chuck was back up by a girl group and that The Hitchhikers was the instrumental backing band.
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Dean Christie is present in the Complete Book of Doo Wop with the imitation of the Dion Dimucci sound in his songs recorded in 1962 for Select records "Heart Breaker / I'm A Loser".
A side reached number 87 in November 1962 on the Billboard Pop Hot 100.
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Rare fan promo material of the white girl group The Capri Sisters on Newtown records in 1962.
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See my post about this group here; http://whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com/2008/12/capri-sistersim-gonna-wish-for-you.html
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Warren Tesoro (Lead), Gil Torres (Baritone), Jose Moro (2nd Tenor), Nelson Alvarez (1st Tenor) and Bernard Jones (Bass).
They are not present in the doo wop guides, but they did record a CD for Clifton records in 1997.
-Who Was The Fool / She's Mine-1959.
-Who Was The Fool / Ding Dong-1960.
Actually the first record were pressed as THE MONARCHS featuring Chuck Mills and the second as CHUCK MILLS & The Monarchs.
These sides have a poor doo wop sound.
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No name of the group is provided in the video, only this comment ... "This document would have been filmed by WFGA-TV of Jacksonville in the program entitled" The Velda Show "in 1958 with among others Johnny Tillotson before his first contract with Cadence records, most of the artists would be students of the Paxon High School, I miss information, if you recognize someone, do not hesitate to inform me "
-Ginger Bread / Out of The Dusk. Elko records-1962.
Value, $60 (45 rpm rare to find).
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You are looking at a rare photo of the white group the Del-Satins dated November 1958 very few months after the group was formed, perhaps one of their first photos.
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On this occasion in this blog you can see a rarity from 1961, the letter sent to disc Jockey Joe Knight, a legendary Baltimore radio personality who was known to several generations of WFBR and WCBM listeners as "Joe Knight, the Knight of the Spinning Roundtable" . asking to be played on his radio show the song "Enchanted Summer" by The Bachelor Three.
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My latest upload to my YouTube channel is the Spanish version of the Little Anthony & The Imperials classic doo wop song "Tears On My Pillow" performed in 1975 by the Mexican group, Los Rebeldes del Rock.
I think it is a version little known by the collectors of doo wop in Spanish.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa883z9Zi_5-6Yul5UMe20A/
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THE UNIVERSALS
78 RPM demo Acetate "Shang a Lang Dang".
Anthony Richard Conigliaro (January 7, 1945 – February 24, 1990), nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was a Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox (1964–67, 1969–1970, 1975) and California Angels (1971). Born in Revere, Massachusetts, he was a 1962 graduate of St. Mary's High School in Lynn, Massachusetts.
