This early white rockin/doowop band consisted of Chet's Sondinsky, Pat Vassello, Blazie Pollack and Carmen Falconieri is present in the Jeff Kreiter's Vocal Group Record Guide with their recording's on Cadence and Jubilee Records as The Four Tophatters and The Tophatters.
THE FOUR TOPHATTERS.-It Should've Been Me/Dim Dim The Lights-1954.
-My Isle Of Golden Dreams/Serenade Of The Mandolins-1956.
THE TOPPHATERS.
My Isle Of Golden Dreams/Serenade Of The Mandolins-1956.
-I'll Never Stand In Your Way/One Arabian Night-1956.
THE TOP HATTERS.
-Don't You Know/A Whole Lot Happened In A Week.Jubilee Records-1957.
Also they recorded for Exclusive and MGM Records but these recordings don't are present in any book of doo-wop.
-Dim Dim The Lights. was covered by Bill Haley & The Comets and charted #11 nationally in late 1954.To Listen or Download please visit;http://www.zshare.net/audio/79957357af75fd72/
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The song, co-written by my father, went #10 on the Variety Chart, a more prestigious chart than billboard at the time. It also went #10 on the Billboard R&B chart, a first for a white artist where the Black record buying public knew the artist was white.
Reaching #11 on Billboard's top 100 didn't make this song less significant. It caused Rock Around The Clock to get another shot and declared by Alan Freed to be the granddaddy song of Rock n Roll.
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