The Elegants
May 26, 2019 07:50:32 #
Remember "The Elegants," - "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"? I was driving yesterday and listening to XM radio 1950s music. Vito Picone - lead singer of The Elegants - came on and said how they were still performing. Amazing. He's 78, and he's still touring with his 1950s group.
http://www.theelegants.net/
http://www.theelegants.net/
May 27, 2019 07:53:57 #
I grew up with that music; still my go-to play list when a need to lighten my mood.
May 27, 2019 08:00:07 #
May 27, 2019 08:05:34 #
May 27, 2019 09:31:55 #
sodapop wrote:
I listen to channel 5 on Sirius. They play all the great 50's stuff!
Channel 71 has a lot of Sinatra stuff. Or is it station #??
May 27, 2019 10:45:41 #
May 27, 2019 10:49:00 #
A lot of the "oldies" groups perform periodically on Public Television. When a 1950s group has people that are either too old or too dead to perform, you will typically see some younger person taking his/her place. They try to make that "replacement" person be not too too young....maybe in their 50s or 60s.
May 27, 2019 12:04:51 #
Back then my father owned a record company with his friend George Weiss (Lion Sleeps Tonight, Can’t Help Falling in Love, etc). They were working with this young group one summer when I was at camp. They couldn’t afford to sign them, so they let them go.
When I came back from camp I told my father how much I loved the song Little Star. If I were home that summer, I believe that I would have been at the studio, telling my father how great the song by the Elegants was.
Put it under opportunities missed.
When I came back from camp I told my father how much I loved the song Little Star. If I were home that summer, I believe that I would have been at the studio, telling my father how great the song by the Elegants was.
Put it under opportunities missed.
May 27, 2019 12:31:39 #
May 27, 2019 20:18:11 #
Great song by a great group but, for my money, the best of the Doo-Wop voices belongs to Kenny Vance of the Planatones.
And he’s still out there too😊
And he’s still out there too😊
May 27, 2019 21:03:28 #
My father once auditioned a group called the Harborlites which included Kenny Vance, Sandy Yaguda (later Deanne) and I think Jay Black. They lived in my neighborhood- Belle Harbor. I remember them playing in my living room when I was a kid. I saw Kenny play a couple of times, at a local High School on Doo Wop night, and at Fort Tilden in NY. He’s a great guy.
I love his song “Looking For An Echo”.
Still, my favorite Doo Wop songs are In the Still of the Night (sometimes Nite), and Come Go With Me.
I love his song “Looking For An Echo”.
Still, my favorite Doo Wop songs are In the Still of the Night (sometimes Nite), and Come Go With Me.
May 27, 2019 21:51:08 #
Dannj wrote:
Great song by a great group but, for my money, the best of the Doo-Wop voices belongs to Kenny Vance of the Planatones.
And he’s still out there too😊
And he’s still out there too😊
Are you Searching for an echo \? But my fave is "In The Still Of The Night--the 5 satins
May 27, 2019 23:41:46 #
Jerry
I believe Frankie Valley is 82 and will be touring this year. The need to perform keeps them going
I believe Frankie Valley is 82 and will be touring this year. The need to perform keeps them going
Jun 2, 2019 01:11:47 #
you can still bye all the oldies on record;cassete; and c.d. at oldies .com they are out of phila. great prices too.
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