Cirino Colacrai (Del Serino) (Lead)
Johnny Granato
Jimmmy Piro
By the end of 1955, the Bowties were recording for Royal Roost. But Vic’s brother, Tony Bonadonna, had been drafted and was in Germany. Andy Romeo had also left the group. The group recorded rock and roll and teenage-themed uptempo love ballads for Roost Records during the mid-1950s. Roost Records (also known as Royal Roost Records) was a record label established in 1949 by music producer Teddy Reig, primarily to record jazz, taking its secondary name from the New York club with which it was associated. The personnel on the Bowties first record, “Rosemarie,” was Cirino Colacrai, Johnny Granato, Anthony “Diddy” Cipaldo and Jimmy Piro.
Both Cirino and the Bowties and the Three Chuckles would become favorites of deejay Alan Freed who not only put the groups on his stage shows but also in his 1956 film, Rock Rock Rock in which they sang "Ever Since I Can Remember" and also backed up Ivy Schulman on "Rock, Pretty Baby." Cirino bought a luncheonette in Red Hook. While the Bowties were working Freed’s show at the Brooklyn Paramount, many of the singers from the show would drop by Cirino’s luncheonette, much to the joy of the neighborhood kids.
Cirino Colacrai
In the late 1950s, the Bowties seemed to slowly break up, as they lost their contract to Roost, and Cirino followed other, more songwriting-type, projects. Cirino's songs were featured in the movies "Jamboree" and "Country Music Holiday" during the late-'50s, such as "Toreador," "I Don't Like You No More," and "Goodbye My Darlin'." During the 1960s, Cirino continued to write more pop songs, some of them moderate hits.
After Love / Snap Jack