Johnny Maestro

After creating a name for himself as lead singer from the Crests, vocalist Johnny Maestro formed Brooklyn Bridge in 1968 and scored a gold record another year on Buddah having a cover from the Fifth Dimension’s heartbroken “Most severe WHICH COULD Happen.” Brooklyn Bridge had been an amalgam of Maestro, the Del Satins (the vocal group that supported Dion on a lot of his early-’60s single hits), along with a brassy clothing called the Tempo Technique. Brooklyn Bridge loved several more strikes in 1969 and 1970, and Maestro frequently performed around the oldies circuit through the decades to check out. He passed away of malignancy at his house in Cape Coral, FL, in March 2010 at age 70.