Vito Picone & The Elegants LP: The Elegants (LP)

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Vito Picone & The Elegants: The Elegants (LP)

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Interpret: Vito Picone & The Elegants
Album titlle: The Elegants (LP)
Genre R&B, Soul
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
Label Custom Pressing
EAN: 4000127733115
weight in Kg 0.21

Elegants, The - The Elegants (LP) LP 1
01	Little Boy Blue	Vito Picone
02	Get Well Soon	Arthur Venosa
03	Goodnight	Arthur Pecone
04	Please Believe Me	Vito Venosa
05	Happiness	Arthus Venosa
06	Spiral	Vito Picone-Carmen Romano
07	I'll Still Be Waiting	Arthus Venosa
08	Getting Dizzy	Moschella-Romano-Picone-Venosa-Tardogna
09	True Love Affair	Arthur Venosa
10	Pay Day	Arthur Venosa
11	Tiny Cloud	Vito Picone
12	I've Seen Everything	K.Seymour-F.Houston
13	Little Star	Venosa-Picone
14	Darling Come Back	Vito Picone
15	My Tears	Vito Picone
16	A Dream Can Come True	Mcwain-Heard-Keeling-Aylock
17	Dressin' Up	Arthur Venosa

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"Vito Picone & 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 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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