DESIRES (3) - RUN-A-ROUNDS - RUNAROUNDS (2) - REGENTS (3)

                   Paste Up Picture - L to R :Guy Villari, Sal Cuomo, Charles Fassert, Ernie Maresca 

The Desires (3) (Bronx, New York)

aka The Runarounds (2) aka The Regents (3)

 

Personnel :

Guy Villari (Lead)

Sal Cuomo (First Tenor)

Charles Fassert (Second Tenor)

Ernie Maresca (Baritone)

 

Discography :

Singles :

1962 - Story Of Love / I Ask You (Seville 118)

Unreleased :

1959 - Barbara Ann

1959 - Teenage Love

 

Biography :

An earlier version of the Regents from 1957 was called The Monterays, and included Guy Villari, Sal Cuomo, Charles Fassert and Ernie Maresca (who later had a hit with "Shout, Shout - Knock Yourself Out"). The group recorded demos in Bell Sound, Associated, and Regent Sound studios. They were signed to Seville Records as The Desires, however, none of the songs they recorded were released, until the group had success three years later as The Regents. Ernie Maresca left the group to concentrate on songwriting after one of his songs "No One Knows", became a hit for Dion & The Belmonts in 1958. he was replaced by Jacobucci.

Ernie Maresca

 In 1958 the group recorded Villari's "A Teenager's Love". At the same recording session they waxed "Barbara Ann" in three takes. Eddie Jacobucci revived the Regents by accident. His group, the Consorts, lacked original songs for an audition, so they recorded a version of "Barbara Ann". The owner of Cousins Records heard the track and decided to release the original version by the Regents. The original group reunited, and Cousins released "Barbara Ann" in March 1961. It became a No. 1 record in New York

 

Songs :

     

Story Of Love                                        I Ask You

    

Barbara Ann

RUN-A-ROUNDS - RUNAROUNDS (2)

 

The Run-A-Rounds (Bronx, New York)

aka The Runarounds (2)

ref: The Regents (3)

ref : The Desires (3) 




Personnel :

Guy Villari (Lead)

Chuck Fassert

Ronnie Lapinsky

Sal Corrente

Discography :


The Run-A-Rounds

1963 - Unbelievable / Hooray For Love  (KC 116)

1963 - Let Them Talk / Are You Looking For A Sweetheart (Tarheel 065)

The Runarounds (2)

1964 - Carrie (You're An Angel) / Send Her Back (Felsted 8704)

1966 - Perfect Woman / You're a Drag (Capitol 5644)

1967 - You Lied / My Little Girl (MGM 13763)

Unreleased :

1963- A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening

1963- Crazy Love

1963 - Tonight Could Be The Night

1963 - Let Them Talk (alt. version)

1963 - Unbelievable (alt. demo version)

1964 - Carrie (You're An Angel) (alt. version)

Biography :

When Their Last single "Oh Baby" b/w "Lonesome Boy"  received no radio response, the Regentsc decided to separate but reemerged in 1964 as the Runarounds, named after their second release. This contingent contained Guy Villari and Chuck Fassert from the original Regents along with Ronnie Lapinsky of the Tremonts and Sal Corrente.

Much of their fine material was to be written by another Bronxite, Tom Bogdany, who collaborated with Ernie Maresca on a number of local hits. Their single, the Ernie Maresca-Pete Baron song  "Unbelievable" (in an EARLS style), saw lots of New York airplay but limited sales on Nat Cole's K.C. label.

     

 The Runarounds moved next to the Tarheel label, a subsidiary of London records, where they recorded "Let Them Talk" b/w "Are You Looking For A Sweetheart". Sal Corrente left at this point. 

  

The Remaining Runarounds did "Carrie (You're An Angel)" on Felsted, a Four Seasons imitation that reached the low 30s on local charts.  Although "Carrie" was the closest the Runarouds ever came to a real hit, the group had plenty of public exposure, for they appeared at numerous record hops and related events sponsored by New York's WMCA.

This activity translated into releases on Capitol and MGM, but none with the magic of "Barbara-Ann." Once again they separated, regrouping in 1970 with Warren with Warren Gradus for one ill-conceived release as Cardboard Zeppelin on Laurie (" Ten Story Building").

 

 

Songs :

(updated by Hans-Joachim) 

  

Unbelievable                    Hooray For Love

  

Let Them Talk               Are You Looking For A Sweetheart

   

Carrie (You're An Angel)                Send Her Back       

   

Perfect Woman                    You're a Drag

  

You Lied                                 Crazy Love

  

          My Little Girll                 Let Them Talk (unrel. alt. version)

  

Carrie (You're An Angel) (alt. version)     Unbelievable (alt. version)  

A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening / Tonight Could Be The Night (unreleased)