THE GALES_Tommy/Around The Clock (With You)

Paulette Costa (Seated)-(L to R) Shirley Machler, Madlyn Peters and Carol Fedor.

Girl group from Scranton, Pennsylvania consisting of Paulette Costa (Lead), Shirley Machler (Tenor), Carol Fedor (Harmony Bass) and Madlyn Peters (Bass).

Misses Costa, Fedor and Machler reside in West Scranton. Miss Peters hails from the Pine Brook section. Paulette Costa is a graduate of West Scranton High School, as Carol Fedor. Shirley Machler will be a senior at West-Scranton High School in September. Madlyn Peters graduated from Technical High School. The girls range in age from 16 (Machler) to 19 (Peters). Paulette Costa is 18 and Carol Fedor, 17.

The first recording of her was in 1961 as vocal support for the singer Tommy Genova (see in this blog) in his song "I Loved And I Lost".

  Miss Costa, leader of the Wales, wrote one of the tunes that appears on the 45 rpm "Tommy". The flip side is "Around the Clock With You" recorded in 1963 for the New York City label, Debra records, the group that helped them vocally on the B-side was The Magics (see in this blog), the group was active for about two years

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