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This Brooklyn doo wop group was originally referred to as the Linc-Tones when it formed in 1955 at Lincoln SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Hank Medress, Neil Sedaka, Eddie Rabkin, and Cynthia Zolitin didn’t possess much impact within their early days documenting for Melba. They afterwards disbanded, but Medress re-formed the group …

The Raindrops are, using one level, bit more when compared to a footnote in the very much broader music careers of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry. Alternatively, as a studio room performing group, they put together one of the most impressive body of well-known vocal music of the first ’60s …

There have been many guys like Mickey Lee Lane working the fringes of the brand new York music business in the past due ’50s and ’60s: songwriting, performing, arranging, fooling about in the studio, doing whatever was needed. As men who barely anyone recognizes many decades later proceed, Mickey Lee …

b. James Small, 15 Dec 1939, Carlshalton, Surrey, Britain. Justice authorized to Pye Information in 1960, owing partially to fellow stable-mate vocalist, Emile Ford, who experienced spotted Jimmy performing in a espresso pub. When Justice’s 1st two produces failed in the united kingdom, he relocated to Sweden where his cover …

Small Eva Narcissus Boyd was a babysitter for Carole Ruler and Gerry Goffin when the songwriting group was inspired to create “The Loco-Motion,” a music predicated on a dance that Eva would do throughout the house. Eva also surely got to sing on the demonstration, which impressed Don Kirshner plenty …

Together with singer and composer Neil Sedaka, lyricist Howard Greenfield authored a few of the most amazing pop music to emerge in the famous Brill Building. Blessed and elevated in Brooklyn, NY, in past due 1952 the 16-year-old Greenfield was presented to 13-year-old neighbor and piano prodigy Sedaka, with whom …

Originally aiming to be always a recording star, Jeff Barry became perhaps one of the most respected pop songwriters inside the Brill Building complex from the ’60s, no easy accomplishment since Barry’s in-house competition included Neil Gemstone, Carole King, and Neil Sedaka. A attempting New Yorker, Barry’s fortunes transformed significantly …

Dee Dee Clear hit the largest with her 1st record for the Cameo/Parkway label, a blessing that pigeonholed the Philly songstress like a teenybopper forever to become identified with her number 1 smash from 1962, “Mashed Potatoes Period.” Surviving in Philadelphia, the house of Dick Clark’s American Bandstand helped her …

Though that they had a couple of hits over the 1960s, Jay & the Americans were a throwback to a previous era within their doo wop-influenced vocals, neatly groomed, short-haired appearance, and mixture of pop/rock and roll with operatic schmaltz. Constructed round the neck-bulging upper-register vocals of David Blatt aka …

Maker and songwriter Luther Dixon wrote many lasting pop strikes which were successes for a number of past due-’50s and early-’60s organizations like the Shirelles. He previously already penned effective songs for performers, like the Platters, Perry Como, as well as the Crests when he was employed by Florence Greenberg …