Tuesday, July 7, 2020

THE DELFIS...Crystal Ball records


The Delfis were formed in the city of Upper Darby located in the county of Delaware in Pennsylvania, it was formed by an instrumental band, Tony Cotino, Gene Giello, Dan Hulton and John Moloko along with a vocal group, Frank Nerney, Tom Gummel, Gerry Totaro, Jim Walsh and Chub Hulton.


Aided by Frank Torpey and Jack Strong of The Contenders they recorded in 1963 at 45 rpm demo with the songs "My Darling / Hope, Prayer and a Dream" but it was never released. It was not until 1978 that Crystal Ball records released these two songs.


A few curiosities about this group they were originally called THE DEL FI'S for their county "DEL" and there are five the singers "FI". although in his acetate his name appears as DELPHIS and in Crystal Ball as DELFIS

His song "My Darling" is inspired by that of the Magnificent Four song "The Closer You Are" and "Hope" in the Academics song "Darla My Darling"

Jack Strong has been claiming that he wrote the song "Hope .." while Jimmy Walsh, original member of the group, claims that it was written by the group, but as you can see  in the Crystal Ball label appears as written by John Hill.

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