The Elegants Back In Time (LP)

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The Elegants: Back In Time (LP)

Vito Picone and the Elegants have been singing for over 30 years. This alone is an achievement very few groups can boast.

The group has been singing for you, The Collector &, Doo Wop Music Lover! it is for you now that these rare sides, many surfacing for the first time ever on disc are being made available. ' I Enjoy the original version of “Tiny Cloud”, sit back and listen to the unreleased U.A. Cut ”Bluffin”.

No Elegants collector can pass this album up. It completes their history from the beginning to the present. Also pick up their 1981 LP''A Knight with The Elegants” on Crystall Ball # 101.

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Interpret: The Elegants
Album titlle: Back In Time (LP)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label CRYSTAL BALL
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 4000127789402
weight in Kg 0.21

Elegants, The - Back In Time (LP) LP 1
01	What's Your Name	The Elegants
02	Deserie	The Elegants
03	Crying In The Chapel	The Elegants
04	Your Cheating Heart	The Elegants
05	My True Story	The Elegants
06	Lonesome Weekend	The Elegants
07	It's Just A Matter Of Time	The Elegants
08	Wake Up	The Elegants
09	Bluffin'	The Elegants
10	Green Eyes	The Elegants
11	Tiny Cloud	The Elegants
12	Sit There Baby	The Elegants
13	All Of A Sudden	The Elegants
14	Human Angel	The Elegants
15	Which Way Did They Go	The Elegants
16	Treasure Of Love	The Elegants

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The Elegants

Little Star

Just as New York was ground zero for black vocal groups, now a battalion of Italian-American aggregations from the same metropolis followed their lead. The Elegants hailed from Staten Island; lead singer Vito Picone and baritone Carman Romano had been members of Pat Cordel and The Crescents, whose 1956 kiddie sound single Darling Come Back, which Vito wrote, came out on the Club label.

When that ended without an encore, Vito and Carman found first tenor Artie Venosa, second tenor Frank Tardogno, and bass Jimmy Moschella to form The Elegants in 1957, taking their name from a liquor ad ("Schenley, the whiskey of elegance"). Vito and Artie brainstormed the mid-tempo Little Star as a nursery rhyme takeoff and talked Bea Kaslin of Hull and Mascot Records into recording their creation in April of 1958 along with the rocking flip Getting Dizzy (all five members penned it).

Kaslin had a habit of passing promising masters along to better-established concerns for national consumption. Instead of contacting her usual source, Leonard Chess (he'd picked up The Monotones' Book Of Love and The Pastels' Been So Long from her), Bea handed the record to ABC-Paramount, which put it out in June on its Apt (for American Paramount Theaters) subsidiary. That did the trick for The Elegants' debut: that August Little Star was the number one pop platter in the U.S. and followed suit on the R&B side.

Which makes it all the more amazing that The Elegants never cracked the Hot 100 again, despite their attractive encore Please Believe Me, taken at much the same mid-tempo clip as their smash, later in the year and a Tardogno-led True Love Affair in early '59. Kaslin put out The Elegants' Little Boy Blue on her Hull label in 1960, but that didn't regenerate their momentum. Neither did a pair of 1960 United Artists releases, nor the one-off Tiny Cloud for ABC the next year. A car wreck sidelined Vito; when he came back, he and The Elegants went their separate ways. At Laurie Records, Picone and his retooled Elegants sang on The Barbarians' 1966 rock hit Moulty. Vito later segued into the personal management biz. .

- Bill Dahl -

Various - Vol.10, Street Corner Symphonies 1958

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