The Ventures/Days of Doo Wop

guitarman314 · Aug 23, 2014

nfd2004 said:
memory master said:

NFD, "Runaround Sue" recorded by Dion, had the Del-Satins as the back up group, not the Belmonts. Just an FYI.

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M.M. You're right. It was the Del Satins as the back up group. I also understand that one or two of those back up group members became a part of the Johnny Mastro and the Brooklyn Bridge group. Am I right about that.

Yes, two of them

JOR176 · Aug 23, 2014

guitarman314 said:
nfd2004 said:

memory master said:

NFD, "Runaround Sue" recorded by Dion, had the Del-Satins as the back up group, not the Belmonts. Just an FYI.

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M.M. You're right. It was the Del Satins as the back up group. I also understand that one or two of those back up group members became a part of the Johnny Mastro and the Brooklyn Bridge group. Am I right about that.

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Yes, two of them

Gman you are correct, Les Cauchi and Fred Ferrara (RIP). I went to HS (Power Memorial Academy) in Manhattan with Les. Stan Ziska (original lead of the Del Satins)along with Les and Fred's brother Tom (another original Del Satin) and two other people are doing shows again.

nfd2004 · Aug 23, 2014

Yes those who were a part of those Great Rock and Roll years had it all. We had the cars, the music and the ladies. From those Great Days, here's one of young Johnny Ds, ("johnd248"), old flames from Brooklyn.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-Hivfagc8

nfd2004 · Sep 19, 2014

So how did you guys like seeing Johnny Ds old flame from his Brooklyn days ? (see: above post). That aside, "let's move on".

Here's a Palisades Park Reunion for all you Cousins out there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBjaZmzS0RA

memory master · Sep 19, 2014

Remember when Tony Bennett was lip synching "I left my heart in San Francisco" at Palisades? The record that he was synching to started skipping when the stylus stuck. Ooops!

nfd2004 · Oct 16, 2014

In the 1950s and into the 60s, not only did we have the Greatest Music, the Best DJs, but we also had some of the funniest shows that I can remember. All before the cost of cable TV. Most were in black and white but I still laugh at some of them today.

Every weekday after school I would come home to watch Abbott and Costello. The who's on first, what's on second, and I don't know on third, has to be one of their best classics.

Another favorite was "The Honeymooners". About a NYC bus driver named Ralph Kramden, his wife Alice, and their friend Norton, a NYC sewer worker and his wife "Tricksie". The scene takes place in an apartment building located at 327 Chauncy St in Brooklyn.

"Andy Griffin of Mayberry Show" was another. About a small town sheriff in North Carolina and his nervous Deputy Sheriff named Barney Fife.

There was "I love Lucy", "The Munsters", "The Three Stooges". Later came "All in the Family", and we were introduced to characters named Archie and Edith Bunker, "Meathead", aka Michael Stivick, and Gloria Bunker.

They just don't make them like that anymore. And this may bring back memories to some. About a family of hillbillie characters named, Jed Clampett, Granny, Jethro, and Elly May. They moved to a mansion in Beverly Hills, Cal. after finding oil on their hillbilly property. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtvTE3m5jpM

Abbott and Costellos Baseball Classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg

mack · Oct 17, 2014

Willy D used to buff this firehouse, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJIYlL-buQ4

mack · Oct 17, 2014

memory master · Oct 17, 2014

A bit more trivia.....on this day, Oct.17, back in 1960, Dion left the Belmonts to start a solo career.

nfd2004 · Oct 17, 2014

memory master said:
A bit more trivia.....on this day, Oct.17, back in 1960, Dion left the Belmonts to start a solo career.

Thanks "MM". I saw Dion a few times over the last several years and he had different back up singers. Not the original Belmonts though. I didn't realize it goes that far back when they split up.

By the way, thanks for the info about The Four Seasons, Cousin Brucie CD. I play it all the time.

"mack", I had forgotten about all those Great Western's that were on television then. As a kid I had a Lone Ranger hat, mask, gun and I think the set came with some silver bullets. Try to find something like that in the stores today.

The Little Rascals was another GREAT. About young kids that made due with growing up during the Great Depression.

Another one of my favorite TV series was one called "Sanford and Son". About an old guy named Fred Sanford and his son Lamont having a junk business in South Central L.A. It included a bible carrying character named Aunt Ester, who wasn't exactly happy dealing with Fred. Although today we learn that shows like Archie Bunker or Sanford and Son are NOT Politically correct, they've been replaced today with much more acceptable standards as open sex, sarcastic remarks, and much more violence. I know that because once about every three months I turn on my TV to see if things have changed. They haven't so back to www.nycfire.net I go.

Heres one of those exchanges between Fran Sanford and bible caring Aunt Ester. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta92rPzPu9Q

68jk09 · Oct 25, 2014

SNEAKIN INTO THE USA...... http://safeshare.tv/w/eUqDmyBbir

memory master · Oct 26, 2014

Always was a great song to sing and dream along too. Unfortunately, today's lyrics are the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

nfd2004 · Nov 7, 2014

The Days of Doo Wop were relived on our television sets around 1977 when we were first introduced to a guy who called himself Bowzer and led a group called Sha Na Na in a comedy and music show.

"So do you Remember Then" ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZfH33baMs

fdce54 · Dec 12, 2014

I went to Darlene Love's Christmas Show at the Tarrytown Music Hall last night. Great show. A good mix of Christmas favorites and classics (can't say oldies anymore). Thought I might have seen Gman on stage but no.

guitarman314 · Dec 12, 2014

fdce54 said:
I went to Darlene Love's Christmas Show at the Tarrytown Music Hall last night. Great show. A good mix of Christmas favorites and classics (can't say oldies anymore). Thought I might have seen Gman on stage but no.

Close because couple of her musicians are good friends and one of her background singers and I date back to 1969 working with Luther Vandross. BTW, Darlene is "real" person, a Diva who doesn't act like a "Diva". Last time I played with her was about 15 years ago at a Richard Nader Oldies show in the Madison Sq. Garden Theatre.

nfd2004 · Dec 12, 2014

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; Darlene Love as seen on David Letterman, 2013.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7M6wRPuD2w

nfd2004 · Dec 30, 2014

Two of the most famous singers that many of us will never forget. They entertained us in the movies, on television, and with their music. I saw them both in person and what a show each one put on. Today, they are no longer with us. Both made this same song very famous.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JxrzO3sNTY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=85_YK-La0vk

nfd2004 · Jan 31, 2015

Remembering the music as it was on "The Streets of the Bronx"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=14-lKNaRPeg

fltpara16 · Feb 1, 2015

Great video Willy D, thanks for posting!

memory master · Feb 1, 2015

Nothing will ever replace doo-wop! Those were the days and nights too when life was less complicated and a 45 rpm record was 39 cents in Woolworth's.

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