Cathy Jean & the Roomates

Cathy Jean & the Roomates scored one of the most memorable hits from the doo wop period using the 1961 smash “Please Like Me personally Forever” — the one was also one of the most unusual strikes of its time, as its individuals completed their respective focus on the program without ever conference one another. Steve Susskind and Bob Minsky, both 15 yrs . old, produced the Roomates [sic] over the campus of Queens, NY’s Russell Sage Junior Saturated in 1959. Originally conceived being a duo, they initial attracted interest after to arrive second place at an area amateur display competition, with best honors likely to rival teenager duo Tom & Jerry (aka Paul Simon and Artwork Garfunkel). The Roomates extended to some quartet using the 1960 improvements of tenors Jack port Carlson and Felix Alvarez, putting your signature on with husband-and-wife administration group Gene and Jody Malis and slicing their debut solitary, a cover from the Kitty Wells nation hit “Producing Believe,” for the small Promo label. The record gained little notice, as well as the Malises flipped their focus on their fledgling Valmor label, putting your signature on 14-year-old Cathy Jean Giordano and creating her suggested debut solitary, “Please Like Me Forever.” Sensing the record required something extra, Jody Malis recruited the Roomates to lead harmonies, and even though neither work ever met before the single’s launch, it nevertheless strike retail acknowledged to Cathy Jean & the Roomates. After WINS’ famed Murray the K called “Please Like Me Forever” his Manager Record from the Week in past due 1960, the solitary came into the Billboard Sizzling 100 in Feb 1961, ultimately peaking at quantity 12. The Roomates quickly returned towards the studio room to cut Valmor’s second solitary, a Cathy Jean-free cover of “The Glory of Like” that reached quantity 49 within the Billboard pop graph. The group also supported Cathy Jean on singles including “Make Me Smile Once again” and “One Like,” but she under no circumstances once again charted and later on retired from music to improve a family group. After liberating the lone Cathy Jean & the Roomates LP, In the Hop, Valmor shut as well as the Malises leased the Roomates to Cameo and Philips prior to the group break up in 1965. While Jody Malis later on wrote and created recordings for the children’s brands Peter Skillet and Golden Information, Cathy Jean resurfaced in the past due ’80s under her wedded name Ruiz, hosting a morning hours show on Very long Island radio train station WNYG and in 1991 slicing a comeback solitary, “You don’t need to Say YOU LIKE Me.” For the Roomates, Steve Susskind liked success like a personality actor, showing up in Fri the 13th: 3D and Celebrity Trek V: The Voyage House — he was wiped out in an car accident on January 21, 2005. After fighting cancer tumor, Bob Minsky passed away on August 25, 2006.