1962 - Going To Town / Will You Marry Me (Carol Ann 1001)
Paul Dino
1960 - Goin' In Town / Will You Marry Me (Flame 301)
1961 - Ginnie Bell / Bye-Bye (Promo 2180)
1962 - That's How I Miss You / Tonight's The Night (United Artists 481)
1963 - I Like Your Style / Your Candy Kisses (Entré 101)
Biography :
Paul Dino Bertuccini is a former American singer-songwriter and
musician, who appeared fleetingly as a teen crooner in the early to
mid-1960s. Paul Dino had decided to become a barber and in the late
'50s he started a band called The Nite Caps, adopted the shortened
professional name Paul Dino, and before long the job of singing an
assortment of songs in nightclubs won out over warbling "Shave and a
Haircut" a couple dozen times a day. Paul had learned to play several
instruments during high school including piano, saxophone and drums; he
even became quite the accordion assimilator. No word on whether he was ever proficient with a pair of scissors. Songwriting was a passion as well and he began making regular excursions into New York City to knock on the doors of the various music publishing houses. He made overtures to some of the record labels too, but they didn't seem interested.
After more than a year of attempts, he
got his foot in the door at a very small company, Flame. With
his group, the Debonairs , Dino recorded two songs he had written
"Goin' In Town" and "Will You Marry Me". The Record was released in
early 1960 as Paul Dino. Two Years later the single was re-released as
the Debonairs. Dino was signed to Promo label, and his single “Ginnie
Bell” debuted in January 1961, which eventually broke into the Top 40
that year. Dino took advantage of this success by appearing on shows
such as Dick Clark’s American Bandstand.
Paul Dino & Justine Carrelli with The Paul Dino group
Promo
didn’t bother to follow up “Ginny Bell”s success however, and Dino
would record for a number of labels until his days as a teen idol were
over and a new status as a one-hit wonder would loom. Dino and his wife
Justine Carrelli (a former regular dancer on American Bandstand) moved
to Las Vegas, Nevada where they performed at lounge bookings before
going into a successful real estate business.
