1961 - They Talk Too Much / Puppy Love (Hi-III 116)
1961 - Summer Days / What Is Love (Hi-III 117)
The Sa-Shays
1961 - You Got Love / Boo Hoo Hoo (Zen 101 / Alfi 1)
1963 - Here Comes The Love / I’ll Make You Love Me (Zen 109)
The Utmosts
1962 - I Need You / Big Man (Pan Or 1123)
The Dynels
1962 - Boy Friend / Let's Do It Again (Dot 16382)
1964 - Just A Face In The Crowd / C'mon Little Darlin’ (Natural 7001)
The Postalettes
1963 - He Played One, Two, Three, Four / Like Chalypso (Instrumental) (Dore 662)
The Darlings (2)
1963 - To Know Him Is To Love Him / Train Out Of Memphis (Instrumental) (Dore 663)
1963 - He Played One, Two, Three, Four / My Pillow (Dore 677)
1966 - The Horn Goes Beep Beep Beep / Floatin' On Cotton Candy (Instrumental) (Dore 775)
The Delicates (2)
1963 - My Pillow / He Played One, Two, Three, Four (Dee Dee 677 / Celeste 676)
Biography :
The Darlings, a female quartet comprising Oma Heard, Carlotta
"Cookie" Robertson (Gaynell Hodge’s niece who In 1960 with Joyce Chapel
& Marie Love recorded as The Chiffons
and The Unforgettables) and the sisters Maxine and Julia Waters, were
managed and produced by a former artist named Bobby Sanders - real name:
Jerome Lenoir. In 1963, Dore issued two consecutive singles by the
group under different names, the first as the Postalettes singing 'He
Played 1, 2, 3, 4' (a variation of 'The Paddiwack Song'), the second as
the Darlings with their punchy revival of 'To Know Him Is To Love Him',
heard here. Sanders produced all four at the same (with Grayson
arranging) and assigned the masters over Dore on 23 January 1963. Three
of the four girls had previously sung in a Fremont High School group
named the Sweethearts, who recorded for producer H.B. Barnum in 1961 and
moonlighted on obscure one-off 45s as the Utmosts and the Sa-Shays.
Oma Heard
Although amateur, they were already establishing career paths as versatile session vocalists and barely knew their identity from one release to the next - immediately prior to signing for Dore, they had recorded a one-off 45 for producer Steve Venet (himself a former Dore artist) as the Dynels on Dot. Something
about 'He Played 1, 2, 3, 4' piqued Lew Bedell interest because a few
months later, he re-issued it with a new B-side ('My Pillow') on Dore
677 crediting the Darlings. Then again, in October 1963 on Dee Dee 677
as by the Delicates!. And he wasn't finished yet. Possibly frustrated by
his inability to break the record, Bedell sold the master to a couple
who ran a tiny R&B label, Celeste, out of their LA home, prompting a
further re-issue with the revised title 'This Old Man' on Celeste 676.
Oma Heard later sang with Ike Turner's Ikettes, did session work and
recorded under her own name for Motown in the late 1960s, while the
Water sisters worked as background singers on countless sessions by such
diverse artists as Paul Simon, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Billy
Paul and Rod Stewart.
1959 - Please Love Me / Shanga-Langa-Ding-Dong (Flagship 115)
Walt And Joan bb The Cameos (3)
1959 - Darling I'm Hoping / I'm Sorry For You (My Friend) (Flagship 111/112)
Tiny Dean & The Cameos (3)
1960 - Now That Summer Is Over / That's All I Want (Flagship 117/118)
Biography :
Vocal group from Spring Valley, this quartet consists of Three Young
men and a girl : Jeff Matles, Bill Marlin, Gary Itkin and Diane Schultz.
The group recorded at Flagship Records of Ridgewood (New Jersey) two
songs "Please Love Me" b/w "Shanga-Langa-Ding-Dong". In 1959, with The
release of the Single, their popularity has grown considerably in New
York. The Same year at Flagship , they backed Walt And Joan "Darling
I'm Hoping" b/w "I'm Sorry For You (My Friend)" and Tiny Dean "Now That
Summer Is Over" b/w "That's All I Want". Flagship was owned by Vincent
and Julia Sardo and Julia's brother, Howard W. Brady, who also recorded
for the label.
Jeff Matles
Over The Summer 1959, They toured New York state. The stopovers
included Rochester, Syracuse, Cornell & Utica. They were so well
received in Utica that they were asked for a return engagement. This
return show consisted of 30.000 people. They appeared with The Belmonts,
The Mystics, Gary Stites and Frankie Ford. Despite some promises to
record a new disc on the Flagship label, the band will split before
recording their new songs.
Songs :
The Cameos (3)
Please Love Me / Shanga-Langa-Ding-Dong
Tiny Dean bb The Cameos (3)
That's All I Want From Life Now That Summer Is Over
Gino & The Dells (2) (Eastern Suffolk County, Long Island)
Personnel :
Frank "Gino" Amodeo (Lead)
Peter Chacona
Louis Reyes
Augie Borgess
Discography :
Gino & The Dells (2)
1962 - Altar Of Dreams / Baby Don't Go Now (Golden Crest 567)
Gino
1963 - We'll Make It Someday / I'm A Boy In Love (Golden Crest 576)
1963 - It's Only A Paper Moon / Home Sweet Home (Golden Crest 581)
1964 - Hand Clappin' Time / Gotta Travel On (Golden Crest 588)
Darin D'Anna aka Darin D. Anna
1965 - We Were Lovers / Gunna Feel Alright (World Artists 1045)
1965 - Bimbo / Your Love Is Strong (World Arists 1046)
Biography :
Frank "Gino" Amodeo was born on Dec. 16, 1938, in Brooklyn. Gino
& Louis Reyes will be part of the group The Del-Quins with Morris
Hopkins, Vinny Moraldo, Gerard Moraldo. Based in the Mastic &
Bellport area, The Del-Quin's do not register records. Gino & Louis
Reyes join Peter Chacona and Augie Borgess to Form Gino & The Dells.
The group started in '62 on the Long Island streets of Eastern Suffolk
County, NY.
Frank
Amodeo (center) & Louis Reyes with the The Del-Quin's
Frank "Gino" Amodeo
"Altar
Of Dreams" became the title song of Clark Galehouse's Shelley and
Golden Crest Great Hits. By virtue of its location in Huntington
Station, NY, Golden Crest was well placed to trawl talent from Long
Island (including Queens and Brooklyn), also New York and New Jersey.
But the label made its mark when ‘Tall Cool One’ by the Wailers, from
the Northwest area, hit the Top 50 charts on Billboard and Cash Box in
1959 and then again in 1964.
"Altar Of Dreams" never got any exposure and was a limited pressing
record so the value is higher than the group's other releases. This was
the group's only actual release while Gino released other singles.
Singers were just single names back then and Galehouse thought it might
click better with just Gino! Gino had one record called "It's Only A
Paper Moon" which got some play in cities and a few sales but never made
it big. Gino went on to sing with the Royal-Aires
on Gallo and toured with Gene Pitney's "Shower Of Stars" as the lead
singer of the Reflections ("Just Like Romeo & Juliet) in the 60's.
1961 - I’ll Always Care For You / I Don't Wanna Go (Bee 1117)
Unreleased:
1961 - Goodbye To Love (Bee)
1961 - My Dream Girl (Bee)
The Termites
1963 - Carrie Lou (The Invictors) / Give Me Your Heart (The Paramounts) (Bee 1825)
Biography :
The Invictors were a mixed group : 3 white and 2 black members.
Following the breakup of the Honeybees, vocalist Barry Boswell met Ray
Edwards of the Silhouettes, who was living in Reading from 1944 to 1956.
By 1962, the Silhouettes had become loosely organized, and Edwards had
been performing on his own. The three white members of the group were
brothers Bill and Gene Yuhas, and Bobby Rohrbach on baritone. Their sole release, Bee 1117 was put out in 1961, and featured Gene Yuhas on the A-side, "I’ll Always Care For You." The flip "I Don't Wanna Go" was written by Ray Edwards’s daughter, and features Edwards on the lead.
The Silhouettes
The
Invictors recorded these sides along with 3 others : "Carrie Lou",
"Goodbye To Love" and "My Dream Girl", at Farraro’s Studio in the 400
Block Of Schuykill Ave., Reading. The Termites were simply the Invictors minus Bobby Rohrbach, in 1963,
Bee Records coupled an unreleased Invictors’ master, "Carrie Lou" which
featured Barry Boswell on Lead with "Give Me Your Heart", a master from
Pat Farraro’s Beck Music Company, and invented the name « Termites »
for Bee 1825. "Give Me Your Heart" is not by the Invictors, but The
Paramounts, featuring Wesley Parker who released another 45 on the
Columbine Label in 1962. .
1962 - (clockwise from top) : Fannie Henderson, Beatrice Johnson, John"Wes"Hayes, Bernard Harris & Maurice Hayes
The Coeds (1) (Philadelphia, PA)
aka The Co-Eds (2)
Personnel :
John"Wes"Hayes (Baritone)
Bernard Harris (Tenor)
Beatrice Johnson (Second Soprano/Alto)
Fannie Henderson (First Soprano)
Barge Hammond (Bass)
Jeanette Taylor (First Soprano/ Lead)
Discography :
The Coeds (1)
1957 - Big Chief / Juke Box! (Swan 4004)
1958 - Big Chief / Juke Box! (Cameo 3129)
1958 - La La (Lessons Of The Cha Cha Cha) / Juke Box!(Cameo 134)
John Zacherle bb The Coeds (1)
1958 - I Was A Teen-Age Caveman / Dummy Doll (no group) (Cameo 145)
Cozy Morley bb The Coeds (1)
1958 - As We're Happy Tonight / I Chicken Out (Cameo 147)
Charlie Gracie bb The Coeds (1)
1958 - Dressin' Up / Crazy Girl (no group) (Cameo 127)
The Co-Eds (2)
1961 - Time After Time / To Be Or Not To Be (Sheryl 337)
Biography :
John"Wes"Hayes & Bernard Harris were members of the Dreams, who
in 1957 had morphed into Kenny Esquire & The Starlites. Following
their dissolution, Wes Rounded up Bernard and other lifelong friends
from the neighborhood to form the Coeds. The Group make appearances all
over the area. The Coeds consisted of John"Wes"Hayes (Baritone), Bernard
Harris (Tenor), Beatrice Johnson (Second Soprano/Alto), Fannie
Henderson (First Soprano), Barge Hammond (Bass) and Jeanette Taylor
(First Soprano/ Lead).
1958 - (top L to R) : B. Harris, B. Hammond, J.Hayes (Top Down - Girls) J. Taylor, F. Henderson, B.Johnson,
All
this practice and rehearsal inspired their manager David King to ferry
his charges downtown to Bernie Lowe and Kal Mann's merging shrine, Cameo
records, then perched at 360 South Broad Street. The Poohabahs were
duly impressed, thus aranging sessions at Reco-Arts in mis 1958 where
the sextet etched three sides, two of which were, well, lackluster, to
put it kindly, "Juke Box" a sublimely silly sketch, matched with
"(Lessons Of The Cha Cha Cha) "were tepid tunes hardly worthy of the
intricate harmonies which were by now inbred in each and very Coed. "Big
Chief " was their particular favorite. Thereafter, the Coeds began 1958
on Safari and on Cameo promoting the dickens out of their first release
"Big Chief" b/w "Juke Box!" in the early spring.
A couple months scudded by which saw Lowe and Mann issue "La La
(Lessons Of The Cha Cha Cha)" once again, but this time paired with "
Juke Box". At Cameo Records, they make plenty of Studio background work.
The Coeds backing John Zacherle, Cozy Morley and Charlie Gracie.
Despite the fact they had no new recording, The Coeds, now tabbed as
John Hayes and the passions, dropped in at bistrosfrom time to time
during relatively period, recording wise, of 1959-62.
1959 - (top L to R) :Barge Hammond & John"Wes"Hayes (Bottom L to R) J. Taylor, B.Johnson & F. Henderson
in
1961, David King marched his troupe into Harold B. Robinson's studio
located at 6600 North Broad Street. Jeanette Taylor led both cuts "Time
After Time" and "To Be Or Not To Be". The Single will be released in
August 1961 as the Co-eds (new spelling). Beatrice Johnson, Fannie
Henderson, Bernard Harris and Wes Hayes accompanied by a bevy of
musicians, circulated for many years under tha new monicker, John hayes
and the Passions. Though they never rrecorded again, they weren't
lollygagging.
