Tag Archives: The Chevrons

In 1965 a stunning single called “New York’s a Lonely Town” by an organization called the Tradewinds flitted briefly across pop radio. Informing the story of the California surfer trapped in NY for the wintertime, the melody was beautifully created, echoing a number of the studio room techniques then well-liked …

Produced in doo-wop central, Manhattan’s Washington Levels neighborhood, the Chevrons are most widely known for two regional strikes for the Brent label, along with the starting for Jim Croce producer and Cashman & Western member Dennis Minogue (aka Terry Cashman). The group was produced in 1959, with lead Minogue (also …