The Elegants The Acapella Album (CD)
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The Elegants: The Acapella Album (CD)
THE MAGIC VOICE OF VITO PICONE AND THE TERRIFIC HARMONIES OF THE ELEGANTS MADE THEM ONE OF THE BIGGEST WHITE GROUPS OF THE 1950'S AND EARLY 1960'S. EVEN DION MENTIONS VITO AS ONE OF HIS MAIN INFLUENCES WHEN HE WAS STARTING SINGING. THIS ALBUM BRINGS YOU A BUNCH OF RARE SONGS, ORIGINAL DEMOS [LIKE THE ONE OF LITTLE STAR FROM 1957) AND UNRELEASED PERFORMANCES FROM THE 1960'S AND 1970'S, ALL ACAPPELLA, JUST PURE HARMONY. FROM STATEN ISLAND, NY, HERE THEY ARE VITO PICONE & THE ELEGANTS!
Article properties:The Elegants: The Acapella Album (CD)
Interpret: The Elegants
Album titlle: The Acapella Album (CD)
Genre R&B, Soul
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Label Custom Pressing
EAN: 2500006512692
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Elegants, The - The Acapella Album (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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01 | Your cheatin heart | The Elegants | ||
02 | Believe me | The Elegants | ||
03 | Green eyes | The Elegants | ||
04 | Talk to me | The Elegants | ||
05 | Little boy blue | The Elegants | ||
06 | The lady is a tramp | The Elegants | ||
07 | Get well soon | The Elegants | ||
08 | Getting dizzy (1957 demo) | The Elegants | ||
09 | Teach me tonight | The Elegants | ||
10 | What's your name | The Elegants | ||
11 | The nearness of you | The Elegants | ||
12 | That lucky old sun | The Elegants | ||
13 | For your love | The Elegants | ||
14 | Twinkle little star (1957 demo) | The Elegants | ||
15 | Goodnight | The Elegants |
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 Affairin 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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