Chip & The Quartertones : Chip Kopaczewiki, Dick Curry, Jimmy Murkens & Tony Galantino
Chip & The Quartertones (Philadelphia, Pa.)
ref : The Intentions (2)
Personnel :
Chip Kopaczewski (Lead)
Tony Galantino (Baritone/Bass)
Jimmy Murkens (1st/2nd Tenor)
Dick Curry (Baritone/2nd Tenor)
Jimmy Gleason (1st Tenor)
Discography :
Chip & The Quartertones
Single :
1964 - Simple Simon / You Were My Baby (Carlton 604)
Unreleased :
1964 - He's In Love With Sandra (Carlton)
1964 - She Walked Away (Carlton)
The Intentions (2)
1964 - I'm In Love With A Go Go Girl / Wonderful Girl (Melron 5014)
Biography :
Chip
Kopaczewski first recorded with the Quartertones in 1964. That group
didn't last as long as the list of its original members: Chip
Kopaczewski (lead), Tony Galantino (baritone/bass), Jimmy Murkens
(1st/2nd tenor), Dick Curry (baritone/2nd tenor) and Jimmy Gleason (1st
tenor). They practice and singing locally when signed Bill Fredericks as
their manager who connected the group with LeRoy Lovett a record
executive.
Chip & The Quartertones : Chip Kopaczewski, Tony Galantino, Dick Curry & Jimmy Murkens
In
the fall of 1964 LeRoy Lovett send the group at the Sound Plus Studio
on Kensington Av. in Philadelphia to cut "Simple Simon" and "You Were My
Baby" .The single will be released released on the Carlton label in New
York owned by Jack Carlton. "Simple Simon" and "You Were My Baby"
Which came to be the entire catalogue of singles released by the group,
it abandoned in the summer of '65 as Chip Kopaczewski and fellow member,
Tony Galantino, joined the Intentions. Before the arrivals of Chip
& Tony, the Intentions is composed by Eddie Sachetti (lead/1st
tenor), Albert DiPrieto (baritone), Charlie Votta (1st tenor) & Tony
Avicol.
The
Intentions : Al DiPrietro, Tony Avicol, Charlie Votta and Eddie
Sachetti
(seated)
The new intentions, Eddie Sachetti, Albert DiPrieto,
Charlie Votta, Tony Galantino and Chip Kopaczewski released "I'm In Love
With a Go Go Girl" b/w "Wonderful Girl" in 1965. One side is an
original composition by the group, and the flip side is an exceptional
version of the Five Satins song. The same year their musical venture was
finished. Kopaczewski, Galantino and Votta then attended Cheney
University in Pennsylvania together, not to enter into the music
business again.
Songs :
Chip & The Quartertones
Simple Simon You Were My Baby
He's In Love With Sandra She Walked Away
The Intentions (2)
I'm In Love With A Go Go Girl Wonderful Girl