No. 1, ‘Runaround Sue’, but label changes and drug addiction limited his big hits to the million-selling 1968 hit, ‘Abraham, Martin & John’. Periodic reunions with The Belmonts, 1975’s Phil Spector-produced ‘Born To Be With You’ and 1989’s Dave Edmunds-produced ‘Yo Frankie’ confirmed his legendary status. Styles & Forms | Fifties | Rock Personalities | Fats Domino ...
, but died during heart surgery. Kevin Spacey’s 2004 biopic Beyond The Sea helped keep the memory alive. Styles & Forms | Fifties | Rock Personalities | Dion & The Belmonts | Fifties | Rock ...
hit ‘Come Go With Me’ was the first song that the adolescent Paul McCartney ever saw John Lennon perform – as well as all-white outfits such as Dion & The Belmonts, The Mystics and The Skyliners. The Doo-Wop Bandwagon Doo-wop had made vast strides within a very short time, and many of the teens who were buying the records ...
As the 1960s approached, the controversy associated with rock’n’roll was superseded by an array of inoffensive smoothies on both sides of the atlantic. However, the ongoing popularity of artists such as Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Sam Cooke, and, in the UK, Lonnie Donegan, Billy Fury and Cliff Richard, ensured ...
female perspective. The Rock’n’Roll Gospel Girl groups would not emerge until the following decade, but there were many doo-wop-influenced male vocal combos already out there like Dion and The Belmonts and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Often drawn from immigrant Italian or Hispanic stock, they made the transition from street-corner harmonizing to the hit parade in style. Their ...
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